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“So, you think Palin cost McStain votes”

I didn’t say she cost him votes, but she did nothing for him. Her roll out was a disaster and she never was taken seriously by independents or dems after that. Note: republicans can’t win elections by themselves.

I was excited about Palin. I liked her a heck of a lot better than McCain, but she was not a good pick and was handled poorly.

SSDD. RomneyENVY - Double Plus Covet

Romney, working FOR Obama in 2008

Late in October, The American Spectator's The Prowler revealed:
"Former Mitt Romney presidential campaign staffers…
have been involved in spreading anti-Palin spin to reporters, seeking to diminish her standing after the election.
'Sarah Palin is a lightweight, she won't be the first, not even the third, person people will think of when it comes to 2012,'
says one former Romney aide…
'The only serious candidate ready to challenge to lead the Republican Party is Mitt Romney.
"Some former Romney aides were behind the recent leaks to media, including CNN, that Governor Sarah Palin was a 'diva' and was going off message intentionally."

The Palmetto Scoop reported: "One of the first stories to hit the national airwaves was
the claim of a major internal strife between close McCain aides and the folks handling his running mate Sarah Palin."
"I’m told by very good sources that this was indeed the case and that a rift had developed, but it was between Palin’s people and the staffers brought on from the failed presidential campaign of former Gov. Mitt Romney, not McCain aides."
"The sources said nearly 80 percent of Romney’s former staff was absorbed by McCain and these individuals were responsible for what amounts to a premeditated, last-minute sabotage of Palin."
… aides loyal to Romney inside the McCain campaign, said The Scoop, reportedly saw
that Palin would be a serious contender for the Republican nomination in 2012 or 2016, which made her a threat to another presidential quest by Romney.

"These staffers are now out trying to finish her off ….hoping it would ingratiate themselves with Mitt Romney."

"Who's the Palin Leaker from the McCain Campaign?
National Review Online The publication of a Vanity Fair profile of Sarah Palin
appears to have opened old wounds in the McCain campaign.
... the source of the “Diva” leak was Nicolle Wallace’s husband."

"Peeking Out From the McCain Wreckage: Mitt Romney"

"Someone's got to say it: IS MITT ROMNEY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBAMA'S VICTORY?"

"Vanity: Team Romney Sabotaged Palin and Continuing to Do So?"

"Romney Supporters Trashing Palin"

"Romney advisors sniping at Palin?"

I agree with the handled poorly part. She was intentionally sabotaged by Romney’s people. But without Palin, McCain would have only received die hard GOPe votes. Conservatives would have been tepid at best. As for a better pick, there was no VP pick that would have made McCain look better. The best pick would have been a presidential pick other than the GOPee candidates running.

It’s taken eight years but now everything is completely out in the open. We lost because the GOPee wanted to lose. They would rather have liberal democrats in office than conservatives. It was true then and it’s still true now. They are fighting Trump harder they have ever fought any democrat. No accident, that is their plan. Remember Mississippi.