You slandered my daughter, you libeled me,
you threw my political future under the campaign bus,
you torched my church Odinga-style,
and you expect ME to run in 2012??
and kiss my perfectly-formed ass!
"The McCain campaign took this person and completely botched her assets."
That McCain threw the election for Obama is no surprise.
McCain wants to be liked more than being President. He has no basic (core) beliefs other than to be elected and/or re-elected and be part of the Washington establishment and revered by the media. He could be a Democrat just as easily, but to be elected in Arizona he had to run as a Republican. The sad part was the fact that there were no true core (conservative) belief Republicans to step up and lead the party. In fact, I am not certain that such an individual exists today, with the possible exception, maybe, of Sarah Palin. Most Repulicans are nothing more than Demmocrats, except to take us to disaster on a slower pace. They still remember the Goldwater defeat and have run scared since then. Thus, today’s mess.
Sure. McCain has botched just about everything during his political career. But after he picked Sarah Palin, the ticket actually went ahead in the polls. It was Hank Paulson’s September Surprise that lost the election for the Republican Party. And both McCain and Bush helped dig Paulson’s hole deeper.
Okay, I've heard this from various liberals too. Palin was "mean" or "preachy". Inevitably, when asked for examples of this behavior no examples can be given. After a few more questions, I realized that they hated Palin because she caused them to be introspective and therefore to feel guilty.
And how do liberals react to people who cause them some moral discomfort? By lashing out at them.
McCain and his people had a major asset on their hands... virtually lightning-in-the-bottle, with Sarah. Yet they did mismanage and misdirect it at every opportunity. The biased attacks from the media were one thing, but the other problem was that the McCain camp never really spotlighted/broadcast her strengths and virtues, as exemplified by her governorship. Pretty exasperating, looking back at all this in retrospect.
However, it’s a relief that she’s free from all that now, and is poised to be a major, major player (and woe to any Republican establishment bigwigs who beg to differ). The interest and fascination with her seems to be continuing unabated, well after the election.
How does a brave man turn a wimp,
Like an orca becoming a shrimp?
It must be hypnosis
Or some rare psychosis
That’s made him Obama’s trained chimp.
McQueeg: scumbag, Rat, traitor posing as war hero. (I use war hero, loosely)
Is a pig's ass pork?
Is a frog's ass watertight at twenty feet?
Luv Sarah Palin!
The big mistake was not letting her warm up her national public speaking voice before sympathetic and encouraging friends and fans on talk radio before turning her out to an unfriendly media already working overtime for Obama.
It seems to be the liberal consensus that the only conservative in the thing was the wrong choice. What a surprise.
Palin could have won that election if she didn’t have that old albatross tied to her neck.
Yes it was really dumb of Sarah Palin to say the fundamentals of the US economy were sound. Oh wait that wasn’t her, it was the other guy right! LOL!
Glad to see "key republicans on Capitol Hill" have finally figured out what we all here were screaming even as it was happening.
Pathetic. We were had by a sorry bunch of careerist a-holes, McCain first among them.
Palin/Jindal 2012 or Jindal/Palin 2012