You raise good points here. A loss is a loss, but in light of the circumstances McCain should have been lucky to break the 40% mark.
It in no way matters why we lost.
We lost.
That is fact.
The question is, how do we save our Country?
Yes..Ron Paul could of won had we gotten behind him like we did the RINO shill McClame. We got suckered again. I even gave money to the Penguin cause of Sarah.
The GOP should back its candidates and elected officials. The DNC certainly does. I blame the GOP and RNC first and foremost..
All he had to do was come out against the bailout and he’d have won. Worst campaign and worst candidate on the pubbie side I’ve ever seen.
It’s okay to blame John McCain. He’s not one of us.
Joe The Plumber made a better case for electing John McCain than John McCain is. That can’t be blamed on the current conditions. The race was a winnable one. John McCain botched it. Sarah Palin is the only reason it wasn’t a 50 state landslide by 20 points.
I don’t see any point in not assigning blame where it is due. John McCain has been sticking his thumbs in our eyes for years. This was just a final middle finger to American conservatives from John McCain.
“Be totally honest. Could any candidate, (even Gov. Palin), have been elected to succeed a president of his own party whose job approval rating was 25 percent? “
In America? Against an utterly unprepared, unvetted, glib, Leftist, shallow, Constitution hating, America despising, finger flipping, smirky adolescent? Yeah, pretty much. In America. Tells you something about how far we’ve drifted and where we are today.
This statement contains a couple of false premises.
First, Bush's low approval rating is a combination of factors - a large group believes he was not conservative enough (spending, etc), and they disapprove of him for entirely different reasons than Democrats disapprove of him. The mere fact of this disapproval rating does not mean someone positioned from the conservative end of the spectrum was doomed to fail this election.
Second, the Democrat Congress has even LOWER ratings than Bush. How effective might a conservative been who attacked the Reid-Pelosi Congress and tied Obama to it, a Congress in which Obama was as left-wing and partisan a member as they come?
Could any candidate have been elected to continue his party’s stay in the White House when roughly 90 percent of Americans believed the country was on the wrong track? Probably not.
Again, the 90% number does not mean much in and of itself. A good portion of that number is people who think the track is not conservative enough.
Could any candidate from the governing party have been elected after the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 4,000 points before one could even turn around? Probably not.
The roots of the financial meltdown was in affirmative-action mortgage social engineering.
This was the PERFECT opportunity to run against government control of the market in the name of diversity and the disastrous results of that.
The case was NEVER effectively made by McCain, who happened to be in an ideal position to make the case (having personally called for regulating the DNC subsidiarieis, Fannie and Freddie) and instead he blamed "greed on Wall Street." In my mind, this was the stupidest possible blunder McCain could have made, and it cost him the election.
First step has to be Republican primaries are held the same day as liberal primaries. Boot Iowa and New Hampshire and South Carolina to the last primaries held. And nobody agree to govt subsidies for campaign financing.
Whoopee for us.
I agree.
The piece barely mentions the MSM, but I don’t think anyone could have surmounted all the glorious review they gave Obama, while shamelessly attacking the GOP.
That being the case, I think McCain came pretty close.
I am not educated enough to know how it was done but the timing of the meltdown was beyond coincidence. I also am catching a faint whiff of George Soros.
I think we lost because Obama and the MSM cheated. Period. I hope someone will investigate Obama’s donations and not let it just slide. Even his own aunt was contributing illegally. He knew it and got away with it. Qaddafi claimed to be sending money to get O elected. And we don’t know to what extent Acorn affected the election. Then, of course, with the MSM campaigning on behalf of Obama and refusing to expose him, all the while on a mission to destroy Sarah Palin. If this had been a fair election, low Bush approval ratings and tanked market or not, McCain/Palin would have won.
It’s simpler than this- we were faced with the choice of two democrats.
it’s as simple as that. The ONLY reason I voted at all was because Palin was on the tiket.
WHEN THE HELL ARE THEY GOING TO LEARN????
Reagan:Conservative- wins in 2 landslides
Gingrich: conservative - WINS CONGRESS for the firs timein 40 years
Palin: Conservative- the ONLY reason McCain was even IN the race.
GET A CLUE
And now we get REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST Ms. Hoover someone saying young Republicans ‘get it’ about embracing abortion and gay rights, so we will win in the future.
DAMMIT DAMMIT DAMMIT DAMMIT DAMMIT
I hope we can recover from Socialism of Obama
For what it’s worth, I think that the media started their campaign to have Obama elected way back when they intensified their demonization of President Bush.
After they had completely destroyed President Bush they passed the baton to Obama, who then proceeded to link McCain to Bush in almost every other sentence.
The Republican ticket didn’t stand a chance.
What Lost the Election? Vote for Bail Out.
Best McCain move? Choice of Palin
Worst McCain move? Bashing Bush not Congress
In Florida he lost virtually every Cuban vote with which he would have won.
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Here’s what sank McLame, “My friends,.....”
Good article thanks for posting.