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It would have been tough for ANY Republican to win in 2008.
Lil' Bush saw to that.....in spades!
However, McCain MIGHT have made the race tighter, a lot tighter if:
A) Kept to his core values, instead of appeasing the far right
B) Palin
C) Palin
D) Palin
You betcha.....Steve
I'm sure the RNC intended to sit this one out. Let the Ds do the cleanup and take the blame, then sweep in carried by their short-memoried, pinheaded plankton, ah, supporters.
If it was Hillary, she'd be receiving the same complaints that Obama is getting. No difference. She'd be a socialist, tax and spender, big government, weakening our country, unqualified, only there because she's a woman, etc, etc.
LMAO@ a lot of this nonsense said in hindsight.
Wrong.
Hillary would have been smart enough to govern from the center, like her husband.
Hillary doesn't want to destroy the U.S., the way Obama does.
Of all groups, college students give the most thought to what they want their votes to accomplish. The only group that would vote more judiciously would be the thoughtful segment of the group at the opposite end, seasoned senior citizen voters who know the score all too well. I don't know how you can generalize that young voters are shallow and fail to acknowledge that the lot I'm going to lump together as "Fox TV viewers" -- much older but still as fooled as if they were 18 -- do the same thing.
"Of all groups" a collective. Not all within the collective are going to give their most precious right -- to vote -- the thought that some of their peers will. I don't know how you can generalize that all students will give the most thought to what their vote will do. 18, 19, 20 year olds are living in the here and now -- they aren't looking as far ahead as someone 10 or 20 years older might.
Take a large state run university in the suburbs of one of the largest cities in the world.
Bring in inner city youths, whose education is being subsidized by the taxpayers of that state. Add the hipsters and the rebels.
Show them two Democratic candidates -- one black, young, hip and the other older, white and experienced.
Guess who they gravitate toward in the primary?
Do you think that would change in the Presidential election?
Hillary would have been smart enough to govern from the center, like her husband.
Hillary doesn't want to destroy the U.S., the way Obama does.
Every one of those criticisms that i laid out (with the obvious exception of the "woman" thing) was leveled against Bill Clinton too...yea..the guy who you claimed governed from the center.
What about Obama against Hillary (the more qualified candidate in the primary)? No one wants to touch that, because everyone knows it was all about Obama's race / skin color. Pathetic.
No it wasn't. Hillary came with too much baggage that would have been used against her in the general election---namely Bill's scandals---especially when we Democrats had another viable candidate who could (and did) win. That's why she lost the primaries.
"Of all groups" a collective. Not all within the collective are going to give their most precious right -- to vote -- the thought that some of their peers will. I don't know how you can generalize that all students will give the most thought to what their vote will do. 18, 19, 20 year olds are living in the here and now -- they aren't looking as far ahead as someone 10 or 20 years older might.
Take a large state run university in the suburbs of one of the largest cities in the world.
Bring in inner city youths, whose education is being subsidized by the taxpayers of that state. Add the hipsters and the rebels.
Show them two Democratic candidates -- one black, young, hip and the other older, white and experienced.
Guess who they gravitate toward in the primary?
Do you think that would change in the Presidential election?
The stupidest people walking the face of the earth are people in their late teens and early 20's! They think they know EVERYTHING when in reality they know NOTHING! They are easily the most ignorant voters in any election cycle.
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