[rabscuttle385]

FTA:

"The McCain campaign took this person and completely botched her assets."

That McCain threw the election for Obama is no surprise.

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[evets]

"It was the strawberries!"

[El Cid]

Yes McCain botched the Palin pick.

He should have picked her to be the Presidential candidate, and deferred himself to the 2nd spot on the ticket.

[sickoflibs]

RE “the McCain team botched her coming out on the campaign trail”

Her attacks were great . He botched prepping in those first interviews telling her to repeat that reformer earmark crap (a loser) and not preparing her with decent national issue talking points. How could he? He was a fake.

[nbhunt]

well Obama bought(with his international contributions) everyone and everything else, why not McCain.

[dr_who]

That was the one thing he didn’t botch. It’s amazing though at the lengths the establishment will go to get at Palin. I’ve no idea whether or not Palin will be the 2012 nominee, but I think that conservatism is in better shape than the scribblers are letting on. We just lack a voice. But that’s been the case for a while.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Instead, the campaign "took her and turned her into an attack dog and she wasn't good at it."

I dunno bout that...I heard her in person a week before the election and she really let Barry and Joe have it.

BTW, Palin Ping!

[CE2949BB]

haughty diva

Never struck me that way.

[Red Badger]

The Republicans botched the McCain pick...................

[I see my hands]

[steelyourfaith]

The GOP botched the McCain pick.

[Lee'sGhost]

Picking Sarah was the only thing he did right.

[rintense]

McCain botched everything. It was the most feeble, mismanaged, inept campaign in modern politics.

[rjp2005]

Palin continues to get trashed for one reason - she’s a prolife conservative woman who is young, popular and able to affect the culture.

[autumnraine]

Said it before and I’ll say it again. John McCain was a mole for his own campaign. I think he picked Sarah Palin thinking it would hurt him, but he got an odd surprise.

[bray]

Signing onto the 700 bil boondoggle was what cost him the race.

Pray for W, America and Our Troops

[Obushma]

Let’s see.....80,000+ spectators show up in any kind of weather to see her.....Many Hillary followers finally climb aboard and vote GOP for the first time ever.....she eats 36 yr senate veteran Biden’s lunch in a debate.....Hussane Bama is scared wetless to even mention her name on the stump......exit polls show w/o her MacJohnnyBoy would’ve been skunked by double-digits.....yeah, he blew the pick.....next question......

[ZULU]

#1 - McCain ran a LOUSY Campaign and was a LOUSY candidate

#2 - Bush was very unpopular with the public.

#3 - McCain ran a LOUSY Campaign and was a LOUSY candidate

#4 - Obama energized the black Democrat vote and the Youth vote as never before

#5 - McCain ran a LOUSY Campaign and was a LOUSY candidate

#6 - The Economy tanked and the public blamed the incumbent President.

#7 - McCain ran a LOUSY Campaign and was a LOUSY candidate

#8 - The ONLY boosts McCain got were from Sarah Palin and Joe the Plumber

#9 - McCain ran a LOUSY Campaign and was a LOUSY candidate

[RobRoy]

>>That McCain threw the election for Obama is no surprise.<<

McCain ran his campaign so incompetently I mused that perhaps he wanted Obama to win. It is not utterly ridiculous. Whoever won would be saddled with the responsibility for the collapse of our economy that most definitely will be playing out in full glory by next year and go on for years more.

Only problem is that Obama coult so screw the pooch that we end up literally destroyed as a nation with him at the helm.

But I’ve only voted FOR two candidates in my life. First was Reagan. Second was Sarah. If this country survives the next four years, I will volunteer as an active participant in her campaign for President in 2012.

[GipperGal]

The McCain staffers have made my list of The Most Loathed People of the Decade.