Carter didn’t lose because of Mondale, nor did McCain lose because of Palin. Nor did I suggest as much.
What I said was Palin wasn’t able to bring out more votes than 0bama.
It goes without saying that Neither was McCain.
That doesn’t mean it’s her fault he lost. It just means she didn’t have the support out there to help him win.
Elections are about which ticket has more supporters.
they can be supporters for any number of reasons.
There is no rule on why a person can or can’t support a ticket.
McCain’s strategy was to piggyback his election on Sarah Palin’s personal appeal. Unlike Reagan — who WON — McCain was not the star of his own ticket. Sarah Palin was. He ceded the top spot to her. But in the end, she had fewer people willing to come out and cast a vote on her behalf than 0bama did.
That is how elections are won and lost.
“...He (McCain) ceded the top spot to her...”
,,,In your fantasy world. In reality land, he chained her up and never unleashed her. McCain torpedoed his own campaign with statements like “Obama would be a good president”.
Now you are lying about what you have said. You said "Palin imploded in October." Unless you were assigning McCain's loss to Palin your statement makes no sense.
So, by your way of thinking we can say that Obama won because Biden brought in the votes. That’s it. Biden WON!
But in the end, she had fewer people willing to come out and cast a vote on her behalf than 0bama did.
You can't even maintain intellectual consistency in the same post.