Senator DeMint Slams McCain

American Thinker website ^ | Nov. 15, 2008 | Rick Moran

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Senator Jim DeMint let John McCain and George Bush have it at a gathering of top level Republicans at Myrtle Beach yesterday.

The South Carolina conservative spared few words in lambasting the Arizona senator :

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Although Sen. DeMint is absolutely spot-on in his lambasting of McCain/Bush, it is critical for conservatives to accept the fact that McCain (or any 'elder statesman) was absolutely the WRONG person to represent the Republican Party in 2008.

McCain long ago represented something 'fresh', but in 2008 voters instinctively saw MaCain as the ultimate boring Washington insider, too old and uninspiring to carry the mantle of conservatism... or be President.

What WERE Florida Republican primary voters thinking when they selected McCain over Romney or even Mike Huckabee ... both of whom at least would have been able to communicate the conservative message.

[raybbr]

Uh, oh! You said “Romney”. Look out, here come the slings and arrows.

[Onelifetogive]

What WERE Florida Republican primary voters thinking when they selected McCain...

To Florida voters, he seemed so young and spry...

[GOP_Lady]

Exactly. Our nominee should have been Mitt Romney.

[GOP_Lady]

:-)

[cowboyway]

The media chose the candidates for this race and, ultimately, the new president.

McCain wins coverage battle

[ikka]

Fred Thompson would have been great, too bad that either the energy wasn’t there, or something else was lacking. Imagine a Thompson/Palin ticket ...

[AnnGora]

A Republican with a backbone...who’d a thunk it?

I disagree about Romney. He only became a conservative because it was convenient at the time. His past indicates otherwise. Duncan Hunter was the only truely consistent conservative running. And conservatives did not support him and chose to select a bunch of used car salesmen.

Maybe conservatives need to take a good hard look at themselves and, as a group, come together to support the real conservatives and not just those who catch the eye of the MSM.

[Turret Gunner A20]

Ronald Reagan believed the best way forward was to go back and see where things went south to begin with and start from there. That sounds like excellent advice for Republicans to take today.

[navymom1]

Nope, our nominee should have been Sarah Palin!! :) 2012!!

[IbJensen]

...proponent of campaign finance reform that weakened party organizations and basically put George Soros in the driver's seat,...proposal for amnesty for illegals...support of global warming, cap-and-trade programs ...his embrace of the bailout right before the election...he has been an opponent of drilling in ANWR...

That sums it up rather tidily!

All this applies to the two scoundrels that, willingly or not, castrated the Republican Party!

Hopefully our next president will be the governor of this very state in which this conference was held.

[GOP_Lady]

No, she’s not ready yet.

[raybbr]

Fred Thompson would have been great, too.

You've got to be kidding. Although I like Thompson he looked older than McCain and he NO energy at all.

[basil]

The problem with the graph is that it doesn’t tell us how much of the McCain coverage was negative.

[roamer_1]

What WERE Florida Republican primary voters thinking when they selected McCain over Romney or even Mike Huckabee ... both of whom at least would have been able to communicate the conservative message.

This election was lost long before Florida. Romney and Huckabee are just as unlikely to win.

[HondaCRF450]

Yep. The fact that Barry had dark skin made him a magnet for “historic” “never been before”, etc. McCain was just another old white guy. The Temple Prophets and Priests of the MSM dutifully proclaimed the gospel of Obama, Now we have an Obamanation.

[csmusaret]

Whether it should have been Romney or someone else, the GOP definitely nominated the wrong person. Something is wrong with the primary process. Does winner take all need to be scrapped?

[Turret Gunner A20]

What WERE Florida Republican primary voters thinking when they selected McCain... That they didn't wnt a lying, no good, anti-USA, Chigao thug,racist in the White House -- a sekf-centered bum.

[igoramus08]

Exactly. Our nominee should have been Mitt Romney.

Romney would have won, but in 2012 it should be Palin or Jindal or someone else charismatic. In 2012 the candidate wont be able to use Obama's former associates against him.

[Read2Know]

The Republican party needs to go through self cleansing.
We need to fire the careerists and vote in ideologues.