McCains biggest mistake

[purecarnagge]

Was picking Sara Palin to be his VP...

He let the toy out of the box and then couldn't control the bitch. You know why you don't pick a women. They are emotional needy and bring drama...

[pimike]

No it was his age

[etothep]

I can buy what you're selling

[rm18]

He was up against it regardless, he took a shot for the female vote, country is in turmoil and he had less money than Obama.

[Dbldown11]

fox news is currently airing some funny stuff about palin....apparantly she was unaware that Africa was a continent and not a country haha...and this is coming from fox news channel

[jtuck]

Now that she's lost it wouldnt surprise me if the GOP tried whatever it took to get rid of her. McCain's mistake came a long time ago when he decided to take on the task of "modernizing" the republican party. The republican base just didnt want to smoke what he was sellin. Adding Palin to the mix was a disaster waiting to happen.

[purecarnagge]

SERIOUSLY. I VOTED AGAINST SARA PALIN. Had nothing to do with Obama or McCain.

I sat back this week and said why the **** should this bitch even be around. Then the leaks came out from the senior staffers about her being a drama queen...and I was like typical women, doesn't belong in politics... because at some point you lose, and when you lose drama queens aren't good as presidents of the united states of ****ing america.


McCain errored. What was the conservative base going to do? Vote for Obama instead? they would have fallen in line and voted, maybe not been too happy about it...but the election is already the lessor of two evils right?

[sofun]

no, his age is one reason, another reason is the bush admin did a poor job that cause him to fail

[Dbldown11]

the morning that he introduced her as his vp pick i celebrated, because I knew that meant Obama was a shoe in

[rm18]

I don't think a win was possible, you can blame Palin, but I think he picks Huckabee and they lose by more

[jtuck]

I think a Romney VP pick would have done very well with McCain, may not have won but Obama wouldn't have topped 300 Electoral votes either.

[purecarnagge]

Mitt Would have brought a more eastern presence to the battleground states... I mean thats his neck of the woods isn't it? East coast... etc?

[acw]

I was stunned when I heard that he only met her once before he asked her. You would have expected him to have prepared all this better.

[purecarnagge]

She must really be that good...

[Willie Bee]

McCain's biggest mistake was being a member of the same party as Bush.

[purecarnagge]

Nah...because the conservatives still came out for him...but being a moderate republican he needed to still get the center votes... well..he didn't because he tried to appease his own party too much.

[Willie Bee]

No, the 'centrists' didn't vote for him because his party last put Bush in charge. I have spoken with several of my normally conservative and elephant-voting friends who told me that Bush was the reason they didn't punch the GOP ticket this time.

[jjgold]

age and Palin

[pavyracer]

McCain's biggest mistake was his incompetency. He finished at the bottom of his class in Naval Academy and crashed 5 military jets while he was a pilot with only one of the jets being shot by enemy fire. Also overuseage of the word maverick has to factor in.

[fourth and three]

Is there really a reason for you assholes to keep piling on Sarah Palin now that you've got the Neo-Marxist nation you wanted?

[fiveteamer]

McCain's biggest mistake was his incompetency. He finished at the bottom of his class in Naval Academy and crashed 5 military jets while he was a pilot with only one of the jets being shot by enemy fire. Also overuseage of the word maverick has to factor in.

I thought he was an American hero??

[daggerkobe]

His biggest mistake was running for president.

[BestPlay2day]

McCain didn't pick Palin, the campaign picked her. He only met her once before, if he was a "maverick" he should of told his party he is picking his vp. No matter who the vp was, he was going to lose. Palin just made it more of a blowout.

[Shark79]

McCains biggest error was that he chose Palin with his dicks head and not with his actual head.

[Deuce]

His biggest mistake was not appealing to youth, woman, and minorities. Buried him.

[purecarnagge]

Exactly he didn't appeal to the central voters, he stayed with the traditional republican base, which some were already upset with the current situation. They needed to make a play for the independents and let the conservatives fall in line.

[Kingctb27]

Palin was the mistake. I told ya'll he should have went Romney

[element1286]

Probably right. It was definitely a gamble picking her. High risk/ high reward type. Romney would have been much better choice.

[TheLock]

I agree she was a bad pick for VP but McCain wasn't running against just Obama. He was running against an economy that was nosediving and a horrific approval rating for the current president

[purecarnagge]

I agree she was a bad pick for VP but McCain wasn't running against just Obama. He was running against an economy that was nosediving and a horrific approval rating for the current president

And what did Palin do other than make the people that would already be voting for McCain anyways, happy?

[HeeeHAWWWW]

I doubt McCain had much choice in the matter - the people he really wanted as VP (Lieberman especially) were totally unacceptable to the RNC, which held the pursestrings for the campaign.

It's not a coincidence that Palin was visited by the top people from the National Review and Weekly Standard earlier this year. They've been pushing her ever since, even before anyone had ever heard of her.

[losturmarbles]

mccain's biggest mistake is not having an agenda that appealed to the dumb masses.

maybe if he redefined welfare and called it a tax cut and then promised 95% of americans to give them one, he might be president elect.

or maybe if he actually acted like a maverick instead of saying he's a maverick, things mightve been different.

palin was fine as a vp, she was just as qualified as the rest of the clowns. the problem with her was, once she was nominated then mccains people tryed to control what she said instead of just letting her be herself.

[HeeeHAWWWW]

palin was fine as a vp, she was just as qualified as the rest of the clowns.

The other minor problem is she's totally ignorant of pretty much any major national political issues, let alone international. Did you see the Couric interview? She was clueless.

Compare that to, say, Obama. Harvard law degree, editor of Harvard law review, professor of constitional law. Quite a contrast.

[slacker00]

How about McCain-Feingold? GOP was outspent by over 2 to 1.

Otherwise, McCain really had no chance due to the economic conditions. He was a dead man walking the whole way after the downturn, there's really nothing that he could do that could've helped him.

[losturmarbles]

The other minor problem is she's totally ignorant of pretty much any major national political issues, let alone international. Did you see the Couric interview? She was clueless.

Compare that to, say, Obama. Harvard law degree, editor of Harvard law review, professor of constitional law. Quite a contrast.

anytime obama wasnt in front of teleprompter he was a bumbling idiot. yeah bush has a bachelors from yale and a mba from harvard, but he's still a clown.

and the couric interview was a perfect example of what i was talking about. she was fed a bunch of talking points to respond with instead of her own thoughts. she didnt believe what she was saying, so of course she looked stupid. thats why theres a tear now between her and mccains people. she got tired of the bs they kept feeding her, and starting going "rogue" and now the people from the campaign are bitter and trying to smear her.