Dick Cheney is the odd VP; a vp who actually had a job. John McCain would have returned to the old style of a silent VP with the exception that he would have gladly had Sarah Palin be the “first lady of special needs children.”
I wish they’d won, but losing is no better or worse for Sarah Palin. Her name has been made. Now she has to turn that into political capital. She can easily announce for the presidency in 2012. She has to win the process, but I don’t think there’s any problem getting her name under consideration.
I really think conservatives need 2 things:
1. A pro-religion conservative caucus within the republican party.
2. A better primary process that doesn’t permit a candidate to run away with the nomination early on. I’d get rid of the winner-take-all aspect of state primaries. I’d be in favor of candidates taking all on the basis of counties they’ve won.
Agreed. No crossover voting should be allowed. That's the only way the putz got the nomination. The Dems were pretty smart - by voting for McCain in the primary they could make sure we were going to wind up with a lib as president.
The primary process is what gave us McCain in the first place. Winner take all primaries in CT, NY and CA is stupidity. And, that is how McCain won. States we have no chance of ever winning are selecting the GOP nominee ?
True, but I fear that is a double edged sword. The beltway politians of both stripes aren't anxious for an outsider coming in and lifting the lid on the perfidity that goes on every day in dc.
They've joined common cause to turn her into a laughing stock w/the msm as willing co-conspirators.
The winner take all by counties would not work under our present system for electing presidents.
Republicans win more counties and more geography every single time. Unfortunately, they are not highly populated counties, so when it comes down to the general election, we’d lose the ELECTORS which is actually all that matters in a presidential election.
It already exists. It tried to win on its own with Huckabee and failed. The party and the country need the moral compass of religious conservatives but it also needs the fiscal discipline and commitment to liberty the libertarians bring. That was the formula for the Reagan coalition. It worked.