Reply With QuoteThis.Originally Posted by g0zen
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A moderate that disagreed with Bush and called evangelical ministers 'agents of intolerance'? Yeah, he wouldn't have even made it to the general election. That was the problem. He had to compromise everything admirable about himself to win the nomination, and then when he came out of the primaries he was left in a hole he couldn't climb out of and lost his appeal to independents.
Time for a change
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This.
No handle, no identity.
He should have stuck by his guns and what made him likable to independents in the first place. All he did was alienate the crossover vote.
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I hate that John McCain isn't allowed to be right and win an election
This is why the republican party is about to go into meltdown. There's going to be a lot of cannibalism and finger pointing happening over the course of the next year. Palin is the favored scapegoat, though I'll enjoy seeing McCain's campaign managers dragged out into the street. That "Tucker" dude? First against the wall.
He needed to take the right risks, and he showed poor judgment. If he put an independent economy guy like bloomberg on the ticket he could have won.
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IBTMFN.I hate that John McCain isn't allowed to be right and win an election
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No he couldn't. The Republican base sees McCain as a RINO as it is; if he chose a guy that abandoned the Republican party as his running mate the base would either stay home or vote Obama. The best play was to pick Palin to energize the campaign and hope she was able to learn how to be a national figure overnight (which she wasn't). McCain's biggest mistake was not coming out on September 15th and focusing on how he tried to force more regulations on Frannie and Freddie in 2003, 2005, and 2006. He stumbled, Obama seized the opportunity to define him, and it was all over.
Doesn't matter. I get the logic, but the fact is, the republican base wouldn't break for Obama, and they weren't mobilized to the polls, in fact turning out in lower numbers than '04 and '00. McCain's rationale was wrong; he targeted a demographic that let him down, and they would have let him down regardless.
There was a delicious block of undecided voters ripe for the picking until very late in this campaign. He could have gotten them. He didn't try, and he lost as a result.
The republican "base" is dead. They're irrelevant now. This election shows they have lost the war. They cannot win an election without the middle.
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