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... snip ... Republicans definitely blew it themselves last time around. Almost seemed like they did it on purpose running with McCain IMO.
Agree they blew it.
But it was we the people who selected McCain in the primaries, albeit from a very poor field to start with. McCain may have won if he ran a better campaign than that stop/start/stop/start mess he had for months before some coherence sat in, and when it did, there was nothing to it, other than to call Obama a socialist and say the surge is working. The GOP did not present any real platform, and once the gimmick of Sarah Palin faded, she became a joke on the GOP, and it is she who primarily lost the election for the GOP. At his age, I don't think McCain could have been a good leader, he's a frail dottering old man, but I think he might have been a half decent president if elected in 2000 when he still had some of his intellect and fire.
I agree that at some times I thought the GOP really wanted to throw the election, after all, they didn't want to clean up Bush's mess in Iraq and they didn't want to get painted as the party of the recession which was breaking over our shores at election time. I sat here many times and asked myself, is this a joke, can the GOP be this stupid? I guess they can. Obama is going to get painted with the tarry brush of this recession, even though he did nothing to bring it on. Now the GOP can come back in 2012 with the nonsense that if we had just "stayed the course" in 2008 that there would not have been a bad recession, or words to that effect, thus laying blame on Obama and the Dems. It would be another GOP big lie, but there are enough rubes out there who'll believe anything GOP mouths spew forth.
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But it was we the people who selected McCain in the primaries, albeit from a very poor field to start with. McCain may have won if he ran a better campaign than that stop/start/stop/start mess he had for months before some coherence sat in, and when it did, there was nothing to it, other than to call Obama a socialist and say the surge is working. The GOP did not present any real platform, and once the gimmick of Sarah Palin faded, she became a joke on the GOP, and it is she who primarily lost the election for the GOP. At his age, I don't think McCain could have been a good leader, he's a frail dottering old man, but I think he might have been a half decent president if elected in 2000 when he still had some of his intellect and fire.
I agree that at some times I thought the GOP really wanted to throw the election, after all, they didn't want to clean up Bush's mess in Iraq and they didn't want to get painted as the party of the recession which was breaking over our shores at election time. I sat here many times and asked myself, is this a joke, can the GOP be this stupid? I guess they can. Obama is going to get painted with the tarry brush of this recession, even though he did nothing to bring it on. Now the GOP can come back in 2012 with the nonsense that if we had just "stayed the course" in 2008 that there would not have been a bad recession, or words to that effect, thus laying blame on Obama and the Dems. It would be another GOP big lie, but there are enough rubes out there who'll believe anything GOP mouths spew forth.
The nomination was manipulated from the start by throwing people like Guliani and Thompson out there who had no real interest in winning. It watered down the primaries for contenders that would have been much better than McCain. I was not in favor of his choice of Palin either. Nothing against her, just not a good choice. It is water under the bridge now though.
Romney 28 votes.
Palin has 20 votes.
Huckabee 16 votes.
NOW that graphically shows why Huckabee "warned" Sarah Palin the other day to NOT leave the GOP. If she does leave the GOP for a 3rd party, she takes the fundie vote with her and kills the GOP chances for a win in 2012.
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What about Ron Paul? He may be ancient by then, but I guarantee that he'd have more of a chance than 75% of those names you listed.
We have to worry about the President's and VP's age if Nancy Pelosi is still Speaker of The House and our next President and Vice President are covered under Obama/Pelosi Healthcare. (I didn't include Reid because he hasn't made his move yet). I figure their healthcare treatment will be rationed because of the number of years they have left to live so they might die in office because of either their age or waiting for some government nightmare of a bureaucracy to get around to approving their treatment. Then Broomhilda would become President.
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