[keeper53]

“If more had voted for McCain in November, we’d probably be looking at Sarah Palin’s campaign this year.

Did we learn this lesson?”

~worth a bump to the top...

keeper

[Ozymandias Ghost]

No it's not; it's worthy of a “BS” alert ...and I'll tell you why. I live in VA; it is a Conservative state w/the exception of NVA (Northern Virginia; not the North Vietnamese Army; but, similar). It was the women's vote that sank McCain/Palin ...formerly Republican women voters went en masse for Obama. For reasons that I will never understand, a large number of Republican women hated Gov Palin ...and they still do; just ask ‘em. Net result: VA went for Obama.

McCain was no help either; he was a horrible candidate and he refused to debate or criticize many of Obama’s weaknesses based on McCain's own loony sense of proper “decorum.”

Conservative men showed up at the polls for McCain as we always have. We held our noses and voted for the (McCain)/ PALIN team; just as we did for Dole, Bush the Elder, Sen John Warner (the RINO who endorsed the DEM candidate when Ollie North ran for U.S. Senator) and a host of other RINO’s the GOP has stuck us with over the years.

I'm done; I will not vote for Romney as I consider him totally untrustworthy and not a Conservative!!! The GOP has kept Conservatives on the “reservation” just as much as the Dems have kept most Blacks and Hispanics. If the GOP wants my vote they will have to earn it. I will NOT be cowed into supporting any more RINO’s when there are viable Conservatives available.

So please; don't try to lay McCain's loss on the backs of Conservatives; that's just WRONG!!!