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[drewkitty]

drewkitty

McCain threw the election for reasons which remain to be seen.

alohawolf

If he threw it, its not obvious to me that he did it.

drewkitty

1). Sarah Palin

2). "Rushing back to D.C." For the bailout, then voting for it.

3). Vicious negative campaigning; he knows better.

4). Failure to move to the center to woo moderate voters, and reassure them on abortion rights and other single-vote social issues.

5). Grossly inadequate efforts at saying "I'm no Bush!"

McCain is Presidential caliber. He knows these things. Therefore he took a fall or was made to take one.

Comments

[playfuleye.livejournal.com]

I tend to agree with you on this.

[cerulean-me.livejournal.com]

The McCain of 2000 was made of awesome, for the most part (for a republican). That man is no where to be seen...

I've wondered that since he was given the shaft so hard in the 2000 primaries if he wanted to stick it to Rove and Co.

[akseawolf.livejournal.com]

The two best speeches McCain gave were the Alfred E Smith roast right after the third debate and his concession speech. If the rest of his speeches had been that good and if he made a better choice for VP he could have easily won. And when he announced that he was for drilling and building more nuclear power plants I had a glimmer of hope that in the event he was elected the next four years wouldn't be quite as bad as the Bush legacy.

But if he really wanted to throw the election why campaign so bitterly against his opponent and get people to believe Obama coddles terrorists? A number of his supporters are now terrified of Obama.

[credendovides.livejournal.com]

Agreed about supporters terrified of Obama. At work today some of my coworkers sounded like they could be reporters for Fox News, they painted such a gloomy picture of an Obama presidency.

[bradhicks.livejournal.com]

"Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity." The fact of the matter is that John McCain is also getting really, really old, and that (according to worried people among his campaign staff who leaked this a week or two ago) like a lot of older people, he's lost nearly all appetite, and has been surviving for the entire half of the campaign on almost nothing but coffee, further impairing his judgment. Also, don't overestimate McCain's intelligence; this is a man who, as a young man in vastly greater physical and mental health, would have flunked out of the Naval Academy if his father hadn't been an admiral.

[ihuitl.livejournal.com]

Agreed; he also crashed two planes and had a reputation for recklessness.

I'm saving that quote of yours for later.

[thomasj.livejournal.com]

> "Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity."

I clicked just to post this same thing.

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

This would require that the GOP have a cunning plan to self-destruct.

More likely is McCain is old, never had control of his own campaign, made some terrible decisions, and lost focus early and often. Compare that to the well-disciplined Obama camp, and you get what we saw on Nov. 4th.

[rue-gingertabby.livejournal.com]

Interesting thought, could be possible. Older people do have a strong tendency to get tired faster and lose focus, especially if they have poor nutrition and diet and overwork themselves.

(Worked at an Elder Care Facility for almost a year. Saw this often.)

[polymathwannabe.livejournal.com]

Never thought about it that way. Hmmmm...
Will have to ponder this notion some more before I comment...

[aerowolf.livejournal.com]

It was like he was this unlikeable prick for most of the campaign, after he got the presumptive Republican nomination. It was only before that, and only in his concession speech, that he was actually someone whose manner of speaking was one I respected.

He didn't need to fall on the "America must be protected" bandwagon, but that's what the Republican planks required.

He didn't need to say that he voted over 90% of the time with Bush, and the Republicans didn't realize just how much anger there is against Bush.

I don't think he really wanted the job, after being briefed on what it really entailed.

[tetralizard.livejournal.com]

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