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To: wagglebee; Cboldt; P-Marlowe

This past election campaign McCain did NOT talk about: Life, Abortion, Guns, God, Marriage, Israel, personal responsibility, self-defense, our obligation to our troops, crime, treason, JUDGES, Scotus.

His theme as near as I can recall: “earmarks” and “the other guy’s gonna raise your taxes.”

He DID manage to mention in his debates: responsibility to illegals, our responsibility with climate change, and campaign cheaters.

If ever a candidate scorned issues that would inspire those willing to consider voting for him, and touched on issues sure to make them hold their noses, McCain was that man.

McCain is that ignorant or McCain was not trying to win. I haven’t made up my mind on that one yet.


15 posted on 11/17/2008 6:06:47 AM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain, Pro Deo et Patria)
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To: xzins; Cboldt; P-Marlowe
His theme as near as I can recall: “earmarks” and “the other guy’s gonna raise your taxes.”

Yep and what he failed to realize is that the average voter doesn't really care about "earmarks" (and without a line-item veto there's not a whole lot a president can do about them if he wants a budget) and he never understood how to counter Obama on taxes.

This past election campaign McCain did NOT talk about: Life, Abortion, Guns, God, Marriage, Israel, personal responsibility, self-defense, our obligation to our troops, crime, treason, JUDGES, Scotus.

And that probably cost him the election because it meant that Obama never had to talk about them either and Obama knew that the average voter would never side with him on these issues.

23 posted on 11/17/2008 6:23:25 AM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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