I never would have voted for McCain without Palin on the ticket....
That’s just pathetic.
Doing your part to try to defeat a raging radical Marxist wasn’t enough motivation for you, eh?
Without Palin on the ticket I would have voted "against" 0bama.
With Palin on the ticket I voted "for" Palin.
Palin attracted all of us who realized that McCain was seriously flawed as a standard bearer for the Republican Party.
As Ann Coulter put it:
How could Republicans go after B. Hussein Obama (as he is now known) on planning to bankrupt the coal companies when McCain supports the exact same cap and trade policies and earnestly believes in global warming?
How could we go after Obama for his illegal alien aunt and for supporting driver's licenses for illegal aliens when McCain fanatically pushed amnesty along with his good friend Teddy Kennedy?
How could we go after Obama for Jeremiah Wright when McCain denounced any Republicans who did so?
How could we go after Obama for planning to hike taxes on the "rich," when McCain was the only Republican to vote against both of Bush's tax cuts on the grounds that they were tax cuts for the rich?
And why should Republican activists slave away working for McCain when he has personally, viciously attacked: John O'Neill and the Swift Boat Veterans, National Right to Life director Doug Johnson, evangelical pastors Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson and John Hagee, various conservative talk radio hosts, the Tennessee Republican Party and on and on and on?
Indeed. How could anyone?
As a friend of mine said after McCain voted for the bailout bill, "He just had the election handed to him on a silver platter and he blew it. In the Super Bowl of politics, he just picked up a fumble and ran the wrong way!"