Thread: War In The GOP & John McCain's Blame Game

William, you must not be the only one feeling like this....


McCain, Not Palin, Lost This Election
By Doug Patton
November 11, 2008

In the week that has elapsed since the 2008 election, spineless weasels inside the McCain campaign have begun piling on Gov. Sarah Palin - anonymously - and blaming her for the landslide that has elected Barack Obama to the presidency.

It is interesting to observe the apparent timidity of John McCain himself as this savagery is being played out behind Gov. Palin's back. McCain, who has never shied away from coming to the aid of a liberal when attacked, has been strangely silent about the ridiculous charges leveled against his hand-picked running mate. Remember his defense of Obama over the Rev. Wright issue? When the North Carolina Republican Party ran commercials addressing this legitimate issue, McCain slapped them down for it.

John McCain ran one of the worst campaigns in recent memory. Barack Obama sat for twenty years under the tutelage of an America-hating bigot, called the man his mentor and the inspiration for his first book, had him perform the Obamas' wedding and baptize their children, and then told us he never heard any of the vitriol being spewed from the pulpit during the two decades he sat there. McCain would not use the issue.

Obama sat with his friends, domestic terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn while another mutual friend, former Palestinian apologist Rashid Khalidi, spewed hatred of Israel at a dinner in 2002. When an article came out about the incident last spring, McCain could have used that information and demanded a copy of the tape held hostage by the Los Angeles Times, but for inexplicable reasons chose not to.

Barack Obama spoke to the abortion-promoting leaders of Planned Parenthood and promised them he would sign the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) as soon as he became president. FOCA would strip away every restriction on abortion, including the ban on partial birth abortion and all parental notification laws. McCain had this information available to him, but never used it, thereby allowing many ignorant pro-life voters to go to the polls without that information.

John McCain had a chance to side with the American people and oppose the massive $700 billion bailout. As the maverick, the reformer, the spending hawk who claimed to want to stop the very waste represented by the bailout, McCain missed a golden opportunity to say to Republicans, Democrats and Independents alike, "No, this is not how we do things in America. We are not a socialist nation. We are a capitalist nation. With great opportunity comes the possibility of great failure, and I, for one, will not lend my vote to this bailout -- made necessary, I might add, by the very Democrats who are crying the loudest for its implementation. We are Americans. We are better than this."

Instead, McCain made a big deal out of suspending his campaign, and then took his time getting back to Washington, stopping for interviews with the likes of Katie Couric along the way. He made a show of standing with the House Republicans who opposed the bailout, flirted with canceling a campaign debate, and in the end went along with the flawed thinking of President Bush, Treasury Secretary Paulson and Rep. Barney Frank, D-MA, who seemed to suddenly think that the sky was falling.
Imagine if McCain had stood against this boondoggle and it had passed anyway, over his protestations. When the stock market tanked, he would have been in the position to say, "You see? Where is the stability we were promised?" In one master stroke, he could have distanced himself from George Bush and left Barack Obama with egg on his face.

Meanwhile, Gov. Palin was out on the stump, doing exactly what she was chosen to do. She energized the base of the Republican Party, drew crowds ten times the size of McCain's and solidified conservative support behind a man who was almost universally distrusted within his own party.

Sarah Palin was the right person at the right time in the right position. She was vilified by the media, and John McCain let happen. Now she is being vilified by anonymous sources within his own campaign and he is saying nothing. He's probably too busy preparing to work with his new president.

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Doug Patton is a freelance columnist who has served as a political speechwriter and public policy advisor. His weekly columns are published in newspapers across the country and on selected Internet web sites, including Human Events Online, TheConservativeVoice.com and GOPUSA.com, where he is a senior writer and state editor. Readers may e-mail him at dougpatton@cox.net.

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Note -- The opinions expressed in this column are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions, views, and/or philosophy of GOPUSA.

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It's almost as if McCain intentionally threw the election to his opponent. He did everything wrong, apparently on purpose. It's almost as if he was instructed in advance that Obama should win, and that McCain should do everything he could to bring about this result.

RIGHT ON! This is an excellent article and you mirror many thoughts that I had about McCain as well. I also noted a comment from another reader (sunlandbob) that he felt McCain had intentionally threw the election. I think this man may have something as well.

I'm sickened by the RNC and their bungling with this campaign, etc. This junk about reaching across the isle is bull. The RNC better figure out that we are at WAR and start standing up for the Republicans that want to see America stay America! They sure as heck are not seeing any more donations from me for quite a while.

I'm also sickened by John McCain that has done nothing to defend Sarah Palin and the recent attacks. His lack of action proves to me that he needs to come out of the closet and join the Democratic Party.

GOD BLESS a Free AMERICA! NO SOCIALISM!!!

Originally Posted by sunlandbob

It's almost as if McCain intentionally threw the election to his opponent. He did everything wrong, apparently on purpose. It's almost as if he was instructed in advance that Obama should win, and that McCain should do everything he could to bring about this result.

I wouldn't quite go that far, but it does seem like McCain just didn't want to be President that badly. His campaign reminds me a lot of the Bush 41 campaign of 1992.

Originally Posted by LAPhil

Originally Posted by sunlandbob

It's almost as if McCain intentionally threw the election to his opponent. He did everything wrong, apparently on purpose. It's almost as if he was instructed in advance that Obama should win, and that McCain should do everything he could to bring about this result.

I WOULD go that far! I had been thinking the same thing!

Originally Posted by Patrioticpatti

Originally Posted by LAPhil

Originally Posted by sunlandbob

It's almost as if McCain intentionally threw the election to his opponent. He did everything wrong, apparently on purpose. It's almost as if he was instructed in advance that Obama should win, and that McCain should do everything he could to bring about this result.

I WOULD go that far! I had been thinking the same thing!

Really? Just who instructed him?

Originally Posted by LAPhil

Originally Posted by Patrioticpatti

Originally Posted by LAPhil

Originally Posted by sunlandbob

It's almost as if McCain intentionally threw the election to his opponent. He did everything wrong, apparently on purpose. It's almost as if he was instructed in advance that Obama should win, and that McCain should do everything he could to bring about this result.

I WOULD go that far! I had been thinking the same thing!

Really? Just who instructed him?

Well, lets see.......... Both Obamy and McCain are members of the CFR. Always, always, follow the money. Look a little deeper you'll start getting the real answers.

Worthless war? I have to say it seems you do not begin to comprehend sharia law and how much trouble the US, the West is in. We MUST fight this fight no matter how many countries or entities we must go after!

Originally Posted by Apex

Willaim,

Good article. My hope is that since Obama will be far less interested in waging war, that he will listen to reason (something tht Bush was unwilling to do) and put the $200 million PER DAY we are spending on a worthless war, into better things:

1. Enforcement of existing immigration laws
2. Education
3. Jobs for American Citizens

What could we do with an extra BILLION dollars a week? The list is endless. Rather than trying to be tin badged dictators to the world, we hopefully will put our priorities towards helping AMERICANS.

I think where the Republicans blew it was:

1. Concentrating on a war that has proven to be senseless/worthless
2. Giving lip service to any immigration enforcement
3. Simply keeping hte wealthiest 10% happy

Sanford slaps GOP

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Commentary: Conservatives didn't lose election, GOP did

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COLUMBIA, South Carolina (CNN) -- For all Americans, this election represents another glass ceiling broken, and in the words of my 16-year-old, "That's very cool." The election of the first black president is an inspiring and transformational moment for our country.

I am happy for President-elect Barack Obama, and for many who supported him. They and, in many cases, their ancestors fought for this day for centuries as they experienced first-hand the unthinkable wrong of segregation. As an American, I wish him every success.

Beyond the presidential race, it goes without saying the Republican Party took a shellacking nationally. Some on the left will say our electoral losses are a repudiation of our principles of lower taxes, smaller government and individual liberty. But Tuesday was not in fact a rejection of those principles -- it was a rejection of Republicans' failure to live up to those principles.

I believe in the Biblical notion of taking the log out of your own eye before worrying about the splinter in someone else's. Accordingly, let me focus on my own party and the way Ted Stevens personifies what went wrong in the election.

As a senior ranking Republican from Alaska, he was a proud champion of pork barrel spending and bridges to nowhere, and stayed so long that he developed a blind eye to ethical lapses that would be readily seen by scout leaders and soccer moms alike.

Republicans have campaigned on the conservative themes of lower taxes, less government and more freedom -- they just haven't governed that way. America didn't turn away from conservatism, they turned away from many who faked it.

So during our "time in the wilderness," it's my hope that we go back to the basics of conservatism -- what it stands for and its real-world implications for people's lives. The sooner we do, the sooner we will see good policy from Republicans, and the sooner I suspect we will return to electoral favor.
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A political party works much like a brand. Companies like Caterpillar and John Deere earn loyal customers by consistently delivering what they advertise -- they walk the walk. The same is true of brands like Fed-Ex, the Boy Scouts of America, or the Marine Corps.

I'm always struck by the degree to which the rank and file indeed know what they're about. I'm equally struck by the degree to which those in office don't always act on the same.

Chick-fil-a does not say to its franchisees, "However you want to cook the sandwiches is cool with me." They are precise in what they expect, and it's my hope going forward more conservatives in all corners of America will be equally precise and exacting in making sure their views are reflected by the party that supposedly represents them.

The time for doing so is short. President-elect Obama proposed $1 trillion in new spending on the campaign trail with no clear plan for paying for it. As a nation, we're on the hook for $52 trillion -- that represents an invisible mortgage of nearly $450,000 held by every household in America.

We've thrown $2.3 trillion toward bailouts and stimulus this year with little to show for it in the way of results, and Congress is already contemplating yet another $150 billion to now bail out states that spent faster than even the federal government. I fear an Obama administration will welcome this.

Borrowing from Medicare, Social Security, our grandkids and the Chinese to remedy a problem created by too much borrowing strikes me as odd, and hardly the "change" Americans really want. Accordingly, on these and other issues that involve borrowing to spend, I will work with others to change this kind of change.

History will prove that we live in remarkable times. As we prepare for the future, it's my hope that we take time for introspection as Republicans on where we go next as a party, and take time as Americans for reflection in appreciating the significance of turning part of Dr. Martin Luther King's dream into reality.

The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Gov. Mark Sanford.

Originally Posted by MisplacedCowboy

Originally Posted by LAPhil

Originally Posted by Patrioticpatti

Originally Posted by LAPhil

Originally Posted by sunlandbob

It's almost as if McCain intentionally threw the election to his opponent. He did everything wrong, apparently on purpose. It's almost as if he was instructed in advance that Obama should win, and that McCain should do everything he could to bring about this result.

I WOULD go that far! I had been thinking the same thing!

Really? Just who instructed him?

Well, lets see.......... Both Obamy and McCain are members of the CFR. Always, always, follow the money. Look a little deeper you'll start getting the real answers.

I knew it! I just knew someone was going to come up with that answer. It's always a CFR plot, isn't it?