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To: Paladin2

How did we nominate this fool in 2008?


5 posted on 09/25/2013 2:56:47 PM PDT by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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To: BigEdLB
How did we nominate this fool in 2008?

The consequence of 'open' primaries...

18 posted on 09/25/2013 3:00:22 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: BigEdLB

Power of the MSM and the GOP elite, working in tandem, to denigrate any challenger to McCain and endow him with that special aura of “inevitability”. It’s the same reason we ended up with Romney last time around.


22 posted on 09/25/2013 3:01:35 PM PDT by Ronin (Dumb, dependent and Democrat is no way to go through life - Rep. L. Gohmert, Tex)
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To: BigEdLB
How did we nominate this fool in 2008?

It was his turn, just like it was Dole's turn in 1996, W's turn in 2000, and Romney's turn in 2012.

23 posted on 09/25/2013 3:01:51 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: BigEdLB
How did we nominate this fool in 2008?

Between the Democrats and the media, McLame was the "chosen" one. That, because the Democrats and the media knew he would not put up a good fight.

26 posted on 09/25/2013 3:02:16 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud dad of an Army Soldier who has survived 24 months of Combat deployment.)
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To: BigEdLB
How did we nominate this fool in 2008?

Oh, God, I don't want to relive that memory.

29 posted on 09/25/2013 3:03:37 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: BigEdLB
How did we nominate this fool in 2008?

WE didn't... the Mainstream Media and the traitors in the RNC/GOP did.

41 posted on 09/25/2013 3:08:50 PM PDT by TheBattman (Isn't the lesser evil... still evil?)
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To: BigEdLB

Because Duncan Hunter and Fred Thompson were no longer available. And so the liberal Left and their media picked for us. Oh what could have been. :-(.


64 posted on 09/25/2013 3:19:53 PM PDT by SueRae (It isn't over. In God We Trust.)
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To: BigEdLB

I didn’t


79 posted on 09/25/2013 3:25:04 PM PDT by Nifster
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To: BigEdLB
How did we nominate this fool in 2008?

We? You got a mouse in your pocket? I had nothing to do with nominating this fool.......

95 posted on 09/25/2013 3:38:12 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Ms. Muffett suffered from arachnophobia)
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To: BigEdLB
It was "his turn." And of course he was "electable, "bi-partisan," "a "maverick," and a "war hero."

But don't worry, he was "the lesser of two evils." And other republicans/conservatives would "hold his feet to the fire."

129 posted on 09/25/2013 4:16:44 PM PDT by Repeat Offender (What good are conservative principles if we don't stand by them?)
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To: BigEdLB

WE didn’t! The Republican Party elite did. Gonna be different this time around!!


138 posted on 09/25/2013 4:28:59 PM PDT by lu shissler (ecause)
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To: BigEdLB

He was nominated because 1) he had behind the public curtain some very strong strings being pulled knowing he was/would be a loser 2) His birth place was a question mark but this could be compromised with Obama’s 3) Palin would be the Judas goat for public acceptance. It seems that Cruz has shown a real split between Palin and McCain. McCain cant hold a candle to Cruz’s knowledge and understanding of true Constitutional government. As an overseas veteran in WWII and a brother killed on Okinawa I no longer have empathy with McCains service.


146 posted on 09/25/2013 4:35:20 PM PDT by noinfringers2
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To: BigEdLB

“How did we nominate this fool in 2008?”

Easy answer: We were beaten into submission by the same well-funded Useful Idiots who gave us Richard Nixon (father of the EPA), Gerald Ford (AKA—Wet Cardboard), George “New World Order” Bush, Bob Droll, George Amnesty and Expanded Medicare Bush, and Mitt Trotsky.

I’m just a Tea Party “hobbit”. Don’t mind me.....

I was only a kid when Ronaldus Magnus was in office, but man, I miss him more and more every day. Even my liberal parents loved him.


169 posted on 09/25/2013 6:22:08 PM PDT by Absolutely Nobama (The Doomsday Clock is at 11:59:00......tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock.....)
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To: BigEdLB

Every time he talks, I feel less horrible about the 2008 election result.


186 posted on 09/25/2013 7:13:43 PM PDT by Phillyred
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To: BigEdLB

By letting lib caucuses and primaries in Iowa and New Hampshire decide the nominee...along with our good friends in the media. Anytime the primary rolls through my state, the nominee had already been decided.


195 posted on 09/25/2013 8:04:10 PM PDT by JerseyDvl (Cogito Ergo Doleo Soetoro, ABO and of course FUBO!)
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To: BigEdLB

I think the past few months he’s kind of lost it mentally. Sad but he’s all over the place with little rhyme or reason.


211 posted on 09/26/2013 4:14:12 AM PDT by wiggen (The teacher card. When the racism card just won't work.)
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To: BigEdLB

We were given the candidate predetermined for us.


220 posted on 09/26/2013 5:46:05 AM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: BigEdLB

the media pushed him whilst the establishment did all that could to give us him and then lets not forget how our nomination process is open in many states, or it lets Dems switch to R;s before an election and then we have the dopey non party types who can vote in some states too.

That is how we got the arrogant fool


230 posted on 09/26/2013 6:55:22 AM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: BigEdLB

“WE” didn’t nominate him. Democrats that switched for the primary did.


232 posted on 09/26/2013 7:23:09 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: BigEdLB
"How did we nominate this fool in 2008?"

Short answer: It was his turn.

Long answer: The anti-Huckabee efforts caused Huckabee's support to drop in South Carolina. The problem was, McCain was a strong #2 in SC. The result was McCain won SC, the MSM said McCain had the momentum, and he then won Florida (prior to the SC primary Guliani was leading in FL).

Personally, I think if Huckster had won SC, Guliani would have won FL, McCain would have had to drop out, and the race would have been blown wide open with Fred Thompson having a strong chance in the Super Tuesday primaries. Thompson's whole strategy was to keep his powder dry until Super Tuesday.

I really believe if Huckster had won SC, Thompson would have ended up as the nominee. However, he probably still would have lost to Obama.

241 posted on 09/26/2013 8:46:38 AM PDT by magellan
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