Friday, November 14, 2008
Back to the Subject At Hand, Sort Of
If you have been paying attention, you have noticed that for about a week now former members of the McCain campaign have been attacking Governor Palin.
This is reprehensible.
What did Gov. Palin do?
She agreed to be the running mate of a man that she, obviously, disagreed with ideologically. She brought the base of the Republican Party to the McCain campaign.
The base (conservatives), in general, were less than pleased with McCain, and he was not bringing them on board.
The Battleground Poll has been the most consistently correct poll of all the major polls. When the Battleground Poll consistently shows that between 55% and 65% of America identifies itself as "conservative" (57% in the October 29th poll), and you are a Republican candidate, you are not going to win without their support.
Senator McCain shunned the conservatives for 8 years, and fought for the identified moderate and undecided vote. Which, according to the last Battleground Poll, the moderate/undecided vote was less than 10% of the electorate.
The best illustration I can come up with is that I was a delegate to the Thurston County Republican Convention. It was cool. I met several of our state level Republican officials. There was a lot of excitement about the election, and what we could accomplish. The attitude about McCain was tepid. At the point this happened, the Republicans were down to just McCain and Ron Paul. If you had to write a campaign slogan for McCain, given what I saw at the convention, it would have been: "MCain: Not as Bad as Hillary or Obama".
Not exactly exciting stuff.
I, even, heard one person say, "Which of the three Democrats running do you support?" (Meaning Obama, Hilary, and McCain.) Don't forget, 4 years ago this guy was thinking about changing parties, because he thought he had a shot at being Kerry's Vice President.
So, his campaign staffers want to lay McCain's defeat on Governor Palin.
Give me a break! The point in the campaign where it became a "no-brainer" that I would vote for McCain was when he selected the good Governor. I was, seriously, thinking third party.
So, anyway, here is some video that I found that I thought I might share about my second favorite elected conservative in the country:
One of the things the Dems have CONSISTENTLY complained about President Bush is that he does not sound intelligent when he speaks. So, their solution was THIS GUY?!?!?! And the ad left out the clip where he suggests that the Federal government should be handing out breathalyzers to asthmatic childern!
Back to the point of this post.
So, McCain staffers want to point to Governor Palin as the reason they lost?
My answer to that is they might be right.
They hid her away, too often. They saddled her with McCain's moderate/undecided agenda. They didn't let Governor Palin be Governor Palin.
That might be what lost it for McCain.
Don't you forget it, or her.
This is reprehensible.
What did Gov. Palin do?
She agreed to be the running mate of a man that she, obviously, disagreed with ideologically. She brought the base of the Republican Party to the McCain campaign.
The base (conservatives), in general, were less than pleased with McCain, and he was not bringing them on board.
The Battleground Poll has been the most consistently correct poll of all the major polls. When the Battleground Poll consistently shows that between 55% and 65% of America identifies itself as "conservative" (57% in the October 29th poll), and you are a Republican candidate, you are not going to win without their support.
Senator McCain shunned the conservatives for 8 years, and fought for the identified moderate and undecided vote. Which, according to the last Battleground Poll, the moderate/undecided vote was less than 10% of the electorate.
The best illustration I can come up with is that I was a delegate to the Thurston County Republican Convention. It was cool. I met several of our state level Republican officials. There was a lot of excitement about the election, and what we could accomplish. The attitude about McCain was tepid. At the point this happened, the Republicans were down to just McCain and Ron Paul. If you had to write a campaign slogan for McCain, given what I saw at the convention, it would have been: "MCain: Not as Bad as Hillary or Obama".
Not exactly exciting stuff.
I, even, heard one person say, "Which of the three Democrats running do you support?" (Meaning Obama, Hilary, and McCain.) Don't forget, 4 years ago this guy was thinking about changing parties, because he thought he had a shot at being Kerry's Vice President.
So, his campaign staffers want to lay McCain's defeat on Governor Palin.
Give me a break! The point in the campaign where it became a "no-brainer" that I would vote for McCain was when he selected the good Governor. I was, seriously, thinking third party.
So, anyway, here is some video that I found that I thought I might share about my second favorite elected conservative in the country:
One of the things the Dems have CONSISTENTLY complained about President Bush is that he does not sound intelligent when he speaks. So, their solution was THIS GUY?!?!?! And the ad left out the clip where he suggests that the Federal government should be handing out breathalyzers to asthmatic childern!
Back to the point of this post.
So, McCain staffers want to point to Governor Palin as the reason they lost?
My answer to that is they might be right.
They hid her away, too often. They saddled her with McCain's moderate/undecided agenda. They didn't let Governor Palin be Governor Palin.
That might be what lost it for McCain.
Don't you forget it, or her.
