McCain Campaign Meets Joe the Blame Spreader
Bracing for a wave of finger-pointing should Sen. John McCain lose today's presidential election, friends and associates are making the case that the political environment coupled with the Republican's background in foreign policy undercut the campaign, not bumbling by aides. "The macro environment was so bad," says a campaign ally. "Bush is unpopular, McCain is a foreign policy guy, and there is the Obama phenomenon." Another McCain associate noted that before the financial crisis, the senator was up in the polls. But after the crisis hit, the campaign tried to grab a good economic issue but failed, making it look as if it was just jumping from solution to solution. "When you are being swept downstream, you are just trying to grab something. We were trying things, but it just wasn't working," said the associate. The McCain associates are eager to dismiss finger-pointing stories that have suggested that the campaign suffered from internal disputes and bumbling. "I'm not saying that everything was perfect, but what were we supposed to do?" says a longtime McCain campaign insider. What the campaign would like to avoid is the type of finger-pointing that occurred two weeks ago when a McCain aide was quoted on background slapping running mate Sarah Palin around, calling her a "diva." And aides say that they are fully confident in the abilities of the top managers, but that the political landscape kept changing.
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Maye a good thing
Maybe this is a blessing in disguise. The Republicans will clean up their act and get back to basics with a more real conservative approach. The "neocon" movement is over. Dead. Good riddance.
I have some fairly "liberal" views, and I can't conceive of myself voting Republican, but I think we need balance in America and I think the Republicans need to provide that. But this mockery of the past 30 years-- this crap Reagan worship-- has to go. We need real conservatism. Not some hokey folksy hate-filled trickster bullshut.
Republicans chose to be irrelevat
The Republicans have no one to blame but themselves. The administration did not know how to communicate with the American people (for 8 years) - anyone remember Ronald Reagan? The Republicans had the Presidency, the House and the Senate and could not even get judges into place. And the party was more loyal to special interests than protecting the interests of those who put them into office - anyone remember Newt Gingrich?
If the best the party could offer was John McCain who was seen with Hilary Clinton more than her husband, then the party is to blame.
If there is anything left of the constitution after the next eight (yes, I sad eight) years, the republicans may want to put up a candidate who truly believes in the same values as the base of what was once the republican party - belief in a republic and a government that protects the interests of its citizens, not international bankers.
Joe
Blame the GOP for putting up a weak candidate like McSame rather then Ron Paul. YOU GOT SERVED GOP!
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