more drivel....
you could have run the Reagan and lost.
Had nothing to do with our party...had to do with the general mess the US is in....people were tired of all of Bush’s bad news......and think they saw a “way-out” and into “HOPE”.... Yep...they simply voted for a “change”!
People in general...take the path of least resistance....and that was a shiny new black guy.... a smooth talker....and cute kids who’s going to get a DOG!
This “true conservative” stuff is just shlepp....most people vote for happiness...bright lights....big stages.....
in short....at least 51% of the voteres are just plain dumb...and you sure aren’t gong to sell them tight ass values.
Marketing my friend...it takes marketing and charm...which is really what Reagan sold.....and we don’t have it.
“more drivel....
you could have run the Reagan and lost.”
THAT’s the drivel.
McCain lost because he was trying to run as a Democrat. Obama won because he was trying to run as a Conservative, at least in broad swaths. McCain couldn’t out-Democrat Obama, but Obama did out-conserverative McCain.
Why did Obama win? The ONE key and most identifiable piece of his campaign: tax cuts for almost all. Package is important, but so is message and Obama won with a superior package, but more important, a superior message - tax cuts.
No, my friend. Obama would NOT have out-Reagan’d Reagan - or a true conservative.
If McCain had stood up against the socialist sell-out, he would have won. People were looking for leadership and got 2 peas in a pod - and THAT is why packaging won. Every lemming that ran off the cliff with McCain and bolted from conservatism out of fear should be deprived of leadership.
Leadership stands up in the face of danger. Cantor, McCain, et. al: they caved.
And there was Obama, not caving on HIS beliefs, at all.