Posted on 11/04/2008 11:14:27 PM PST by paolenz
McCain probably flunked out or was absent when the OODA loop theory was discussed. How else would you summarize his campaign? He made so many missteps and erroneous judgements befitting not a Senator or for that matter a fighter pilot, but a politician running for the very first time.
I fault the collapse of the McCain campaign at his feet. He can't blame no one, not even his managers. A person that cannot excite the base does not deserve to win the presidency. People were behind you but at every suggestion to attack back, but you did not respond in kind. We were not discouraged and we stood by you hoping that you would listen to your followers.
You had three brilliant opportunities to unmask Obama on your debates, but each time you presented your case to the american voters, you failed miserably. Obama even taunted you to say it in his face but what did you do? You cowered in fear!
I think looking back now to reflect where he lost the election, his biggest mistake is rooted so much of his primordial instincts and insistence to campaign with honor and dignity. What McCain seems to forget is that this is just a battle cry for politicians. McCain should very well know that policians aren't honorable people, especially when re-election comes rolling around.
Had he agreed to the first ad attack using the Jeremiah Wright video expose, he should be the one being celebrated tonight and not Osama Bin Biden.
Enough of your holier than thou attitude! This type of behavior does not win the White House. I think President Bush was right when you campaign against him in 2000. When confronted with an attack, verbal or otherwise, you cower in fear and raise the spectre by effusing dignity as an excuse not to fight back.
The Dems are street fighters while the GOP is trying to be “gentlemanly”. Politics is a scrapfest fight... look to the past and learn for the future.
Now McInsane can go back to his friends, Ted Kennedy and the like.
Democrats won not on the front pages, but with an agressive ground game! Obama had a machine leveraging technology with LOTS of people EVERYWHERE! They beat Hillary who was technically at the time unbeatable!
This is no longer McCain’s fight.
Now it’s God’s turn.
It won’t be pretty.
He can reach across and kiss them. He looked like a dead dog up there tonight. No fire. No fight. No cause. When does he start trying to sell us Viagra?
84% of Americans believe that there should be at least some restrictions on abortions, and yet I hardly ever heard mention of Obama’s “Kill here, kill now” attitude toward the unborn.
Right on
Well McCain, now I understand how you got shot down, you’re not the fighter pilot I thought you were.
Fighter pilots are not nice against their opponent, they attack and stay on the offensive. Your niceness projected weakness when we needed forcefulness.
When will Republicans quit being kinder and gentler? EVER?
Guess I better get rid of that tagline
Guess I better get rid of that tagline
They counted on him to “do the right thing”.
The RINOs and neocons need to be dispossessed of any influence in the conservative movement.
I’ll probably get flamed for this, but I think either Giuliani or Romney win this election easily. McCain was a horrible speaker and slow on his feet in debates and on the stump. Giuliani certainly would’ve carved up Obama in debates and is a political brawler from having grown up in the New York media market. Romney would’ve brought credibility on the economy where McCain had nothing.
McCain was close in spite of a President made unpopular by the media, a severe economic crisis, and his own liberalism. With a normal opponent, any of these would have given him a landslide defeat.
“the potential of every human life”.
If nothing else, Sarah brought shame upon those who do not see the basic simplicity, basic love inherent in this statement.
Special needs parents love Sarah.
The BIG blame goes to the Main Stream Media, and no one else. The “Free Press” let us down. They failed America. They bamboozled the citizens. The only resource the average citizens has to protect them from corrupt government is the Press. Without an honest press, the citizens are dead meat, as we have just seen.
To be honest the party needs to move back toward Pat Buchanan’s positions.
Logical arguments which play to the American middle class. The Democrats and Republicans both playing to illegal immigrants is just crazy. Ron Paul tried, but he did not come across well in part because of his style of speaking and because of his age. If the Republicans refuse to do so then we simply need a third party to represent these Conservative positions.
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