Let’s take a little trip down memory lane back to the 2008 Presidential Election. Here is a clip where John McCain told us that Barack Obama was a decent man and that we had nothing to fear from him.
Hmmm… Sounds as if John McCain was trying to defend another one of his “friends?” It may have even sounded like endorsement.
Fast forward to 2010 and our Constitutional Republic is on the verge of social and economic collapse and people are wondering how we got where we are.
The old “mavericky” John McCain tried to play nice and tell us we didn’t have to worry about Barack Obama. John McCain wouldn’t fight and the result is that we have one of the worse presidents in US history.
Meanwhile here in Arizona, John McCain, aka “Mr. Campaign Finance Reform,” has spent around $20 Million dollars attacking JD Hayworth. McCain even raided his 2008 Presidential fund in order to spend it on expensive Washington insider spinmeisters to create more attack ads!
Where was this John McCain in 2008?
Why didn’t he fight for us against Barack Obama back then?
Why did McCain treat Barack Obama better than fellow Republican JD Hayworth?
The honest reason why we have Barack Obama today is because of John McCain. If you want to blame someone for the direction of the country now, blame John McCain for not fighting in 2008.
When we nominate a RINO (Republican In Name Only) like John McCain, we get a disaster like Barack Obama.
Gads. McCain’s spending like a Democrat. Gazillions, millions of which were raised for one express purpose, then shifted to another without consulting with the donors, and we don’t really see to where it’s all going.
The reason John McCain lost was because those who should have worked hard to get him elected instead chose to complain, whine, drag their feet and work half as hard as the Obama workers (or not at all).
These same people believed that they would be better off with Barack Obama than John McCain.
Now these same people again are supporting JD Hayworth because they think alike.
Go to any Tea Party and you’ll hear the same thing – “I’ve never been involved with politics before.” No kidding. That’s why we have Barack Obama.
Now that they are involved, they should apologize to John McCain for not working hard enough to get him elected president.
They should tell JD Hayworth to apologize for his pork barrel spending and start doing more than talk.
Both Hayworth and these Johnny Come Latelys should come back when they know more and then put their heads down and start to work hard and talk less.
Shane, Do you agree with JD or did you advise JD to say that we are better off with Obama, rather than McCain, as President?
Joe,
You know that what JD said was NOT what McCain and the media have been spinning. He was taken out of context.
He even prefaced his statement.
Again, the statement was that the GOP did not need a progressive as its nominee despite who was on the Democratic ticket.
And no, I did not advise him to make the statement he made. Many conservatives believe that John McCain was NOT the best choice for the GOP nominee in 2008. Like JD and myself, we still voted for him but we knew a more conservative candidate would have done much better against the Obama machine.
The fact is that when you nominate a RINO as your standard bearer, you get a disaster like Barack Obama.
Go back over the months and you will see that I supported Huckabee but have made the statement that a Romney/Huckabee team would have been much better than a Obama/Biden team.
I agree that a Romney/Huckabee team would have been far better than Obama/Biden. A McCain/Palin team would also have been far better than Obama/Biden. I really don’t think JD agrees with me about that though.
Thanks for confirming my analysis of McCain.
My analysis is correct.
Shane:
Dead on, and unfortunately, there are all too many who refuse to stare reality in the face, due to blind partisanship!
John McCain, since first taking office in 1982, except when running for re-election, never made any pretense regarding his ideology. He could always be relied upon to support the liberal agenda on key, critical issues.
Of course, being from a Red State, he was dubbed a “Maverick” by the national media, who always will cover for a liberal Republican. Back east, they’re termed “moderates” and “mainstream”!
In any case, the Dems in this state knew a good “working relationship” when they saw it. They could save money for other races within the state as they knew John would take care of their agendas and never ran anyone against him who remotely stood a chance at election.
At the same time, he would stay Republican enough to serve key business and banking elites.
Hence his support both overt and covert for illegal immigration, along with bank and “fat cat” bailouts.
If he does vote correctly, it usually in elections cycles where he’s involved, but he then relies on cronies such as Lindsey Graham and Joe Lieberman to do the “grunt work” until the “homies” have been once again been bamboozled!
In essence, both McCain and Obama represent different sides of the same ruling class and you can be sure that they’ll unite against any threat to their sovereignty and close relationships, particularly if the challenge comes from the middle class tax paying “schlubs” whom they both despise!
In a sense, Obama like Bill Clinton in his first two years of office, constitutes a refreshing wake up call!
People get what is advertised and identifiable battle lines are drawn.
A McCain administration whould be pushing a similar course, only with certain measures crafted to protect certain corporate interests or at least to buy them off!
Returning to John’s real leanings, one can see by his tactics and tone against Hayworth as opposed to his campaign rhetoric vs Democrats, where his emotional leanings lie.
That is, if one chooses to look!
McCain did not lose because he’s a “RINO”.
He lost because he ran the worst possible campaign since Bob Dole in ’96.
McCain’s campaign was a disaster, and he has to live with that.
He made 4 major mistakes:
1. Inadequate debate preperation. Obama knew he had no chance running against John McCain. So he didn’t. Obama ran against George Bush, and McCain let him get away with it. Anyone with a brain knew that Obama was going to trot out the same “Four more years of the failed policy of George Bush” line. Lloyd “You’re no Jack Kennedy” Bentsen would have prepped for it. McCain not only didn’t, but failed to address the issue until the third debate, when it was way too late.
2. “I’m suspending my campaign to work on the economy…” Stupid, stupid, transparent, phony, stupid posturing. Did I mention that it was stupid?
3. Voting for bailouts.
4. Failure to attack George Bush, and failure to solidify conservative base by explaining that Bush was not a conservative. George Bush was the biggest-spending President until Obama. He dramatically increased the size of the government. His conduct of two wars was atrocious, and Generals MacArthur, Marshall and Eisenhower must be spinning in their graves at the sheer incompetence of the Bush occupation conduct. By pointing out Bush’s errors to conservatives, and attacking the policies of Bush at stump speeches, he could have harnessed the anger against Bush.
Even after the campaign, McCain’s staff acted with incompetence. The selling of campaign Blackberrys that had reams of confidential data on them is just another indication that McCain had people working for him that just didn’t get it.
McCain seems to be doing better against Hayworth. This is not any great credit to McCain, but rather a testament to the inadequacy of JD Hayworth as a candidate. McCain’s ads are atrocious. I know very few people who are enthusiastic about McCain – most of them are of the opinion that Hayworth is worse and McCain is the only one who can beat the Democrat in the general.
McCain is done. He will win reelection this time, but this will be his last term in the Senate. There are too many sharp people waiting in the wings for 2016. He will not survive a primary challenge by a decent candidate.
McCain would have lost spectacularly against Obama except for one thing, rather one person: Sarah Palin.
A real Conservative electrified the Conservative vote which was AWOL up to that point because of the GOP’s failure to put up a credible candidate with executive experience, enhanced by a candidate with a long record of hostility to even basic Republican principles, much less specifically Conservative principles for POTUS.
Senators only manage their staffs and their mouths. It is not a training ground for executive experience. THAT is in the governors’ offices.
Worse election choices EVER for the PEOPLE. Obama, Clinton, Biden, McCain. All senators, two junior nobodies with nothing, and an old crank who spent more tiem defending the nobodies than campaigning to defeat him.
It isn’t a surprise then that Palin looked out of place in that crowd. But the spin covered the fact it was the SENATORS who were out of place, not GOVERNOR Palin.
This video shows us all that the better man lost in 2008.
I am so honored that John McCain is our United States Senator. The integrity he displayed during the campaign goes unnoticed. But this video shows us all that he wanted a campaign about the issues.
Thanks, Senator McCain, for all you’ve done for our nation. And a pre-primary Congratulations on beating JD Hayworth like a drum.
BTW- I think it’s pathetic that there are people who believe we lost in 2008 because we nominated a so-called “Moderate.”
We lost in 2008 because George Bush’s approval rating was 23%, and Barack Obama and the Democrats made this about BUSH. He said Bush’s name more than McCain’s. He ran against Bush’s record.
We could have nominated Jesus, and we still would have lost.
McCain lost for several reasons, including the poor record of 8 years of GOP rule. Of those that he actually had control of the main two are 1) his late admission and lack of understanding that the economy was in desperate trouble even though it was obvious to most of the electorate and 2) his pick of Sarah Palin as Vice-President. Both decisions completely upended the McCain’s narrative of a wise elder statesman and made him look totally out of touch and lacking in serious decision making ability.
A backward glance at contemporary accounts: USA TODAY 2008 Campaign:
“Meanwhile, Kansas Republicans expect John McCain to enjoy a typically large Republican margin in the Nov. 4 election, thanks to running mate Sarah Palin.
Some Republicans acknowledge many conservatives weren’t excited about McCain, the Arizona senator, but believe his putting the Alaska governor on the ticket energized that core constituency.
“They weren’t enthusiastic, but they were going to vote for him,” said Sen. Sam Brownback. “With Palin, he’s picked up their enthusiasm so that the passion level, the giving levels, people going out and working for the ticket, has skyrocketed.”
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-09-27-kansas-election_N.htm
“Giving levels” and “people going out and working for the ticket have skyrocketed.”
So McCain’s campaign decided they needed to “manage” their new “energizing” asset by muzzling her.
YEs, wanumba, McCain needed to excite the base and there are a number of candidates he could have chosen for VP. Instead, he decided to pick the most incompetent and ignorant one he could find.
I agree that McCain did not pull out the punches in his presidential election. I do not doubt that the man worked his tail off, but he did not go to the end in slamming Obama like he should have. However, when it comes down to this election, he had to have learned something, not to mention, McCain obviously knows that he cannot allow another democrat in office. If JD did get the lead, Glassman would ultimately take the lead over JD and we would be left iwth yet another democrat. NO WAY we need more democrats spending us into hell.
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todd Says:
August 15th, 2010 at 8:34 pm
Instead, he decided to pick the most incompetent and ignorant one he could find
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So, who made more money in the past 12 months, you or the “incompetent and ignorant” one, and who has 2.1 million facebook users, you or the “incompetent and ignorant” one?
And if you didn’t make that kind of money, and have that many facebook users following your news and commentary, who are you to call anyone who has achieved such as, “incompetent and ignorant?”
Disagree, fine. Totally disagree, go right ahead, fair enough. But if Palin broke thru to multimillionaire in the past 12 months with 2.1 million facebook registered fans, and she’s “incompetent and ignorant”- what does that make YOU, who with all your superior brains, couldn’t pull anything equivalent off, and without ANY negative media to hamper you and mock you at every step?
Cramer Says:
August 15th, 2010 at 8:51 pm
I agree that McCain did not pull out the punches in his presidential election. I do not doubt that the man worked his tail off, but he did not go to the end in slamming Obama like he should have
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With all due respect, McCain suspended his campaign to rush back to vote for the TARP bailout, which we have found out this week went primarily to bailing out overseas companies. AS a US senator, with senate staffing and oversight resources, he had to have known to where that money was going.