J-Mac’s Post-(campaign)-mortem Nightmare
Posted on November 17th, 2008 at 12:04 pm by Red State EddioI’m back with the Dream-n-ator, my device that can intercept the dreams rolling around a presidential candidate’s head and put them on YouTube.
Here’s Johnny Mac again, still dreaming in black and white. He’s now fantasizing of a needed conversation with his campaign manager Steve Schmidt, aka “Igor”. As he sits in the ashes of his failed run for the Top Job, he’s wondering what happened to his campaign, where his mojo went, and just what is in the brain of the staffer who thought up his message discipline and keeps knifing Sarah Palin in the back? Perhaps their name is “Abbie”…Abbie Someone…
Maybe the knock on the door is Sarah Palin wanting to settle the matter “the Alaskan way”…
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might want to try that coding again…
and I think Sarah Palin already went “Alaska Style” on McCain’s campaign, point blank range, with a twelve gauge. Now she’s doing the same thing to the GOP as a whole. The base seems to like it, but the other governors are not happy with her trashing their party’s image
Tobias,
Do you REALLY think that Palin hurt the ticket?
You’ve gotta realize that, had he picked a fellow moderate (Guiliani, Crist, Lieberman, et al)he would’ve lost more conservative votes than he would have picked up from moderates.
Sarah pulled in and excited FAR more McCain votes than you think that she drove away.
yes, Sarah Palin definitely, objectively hurt the ticket. The “base” that Palin fired up is a tiny, vocal minority (and she wasn’t really on their side anyways, besides the religious conservatives- she is more of a socialist than Obama could ever dream of being fiscally)
McCain could have picked someone intelligent and competent and had a shot in this election. Instead he took a crap shoot with a biography candidate, and crapped out
Tobias, you need a “sedagive”…
Wow Tobias, you are either reckless or really out of touch.
I beg for a full explanation of how Palin is more of a socialist than Obama ‘could ever dream of being fiscally.’
Sarah Palin may not be the best voice for the GOP right now, but her supposed dissonance with Republican leaders is trumpeted by a media excited to see the GOP squabble and self-destruct.
And were you ever to meet her in person, you would realize that McCain is the biography candidate, and that Palin is an intelligent, competent and a strong leader who was buried by a media and opposition who despised her personally.
Sarah Palin may not be a socialist, but she does employ a windfall profits tax on oil companies which gives each citizen what Republicans would call a “welfare check”. John McCain was against Obama doing this, but it was ok with Palin.
Not a Palin Shill but I do read constitutions…. That is exactly what Alaska is… The constitution unlike other states, the Land is the States, oil companies are only partners, not owners, partners. For years Oil companies where the majority on that area, Palin just changed who gets most the money.
Ok, I guess that makes sense. I just remember Obama bring this up in a debate, and McCain never mentioning it again. This is the evidence you would use though.
The saddest thing is many conservatives want to overturn parts of the McCain-Feingold Act, his greatest legislative achievement in my opinion.
The saddest thing is many people, Republican and Democrat, pretend to know the intricacies of McCain-Feingold Act when they know absolutely NOTHING about it.
I will not pretend to be an expert on campaign finance law.
I don’t think I am expert, but it does serve as his best example of what McCain’s accomplishments as a politician. It focuses a common goal between both democrats and republicans. He worked across the aisle with Russ Feingold. It attempts to reform a broken system, by giving greater accountability to ads. It limits the influence of money.
With this kind of talk just after an election seems to adding salt to a wound. At least you could wait until some time has passed. That’s what I was saying.
So then what about Obama and his $600+ million? Are you okay with the way he raised that money and used it to “influence” (I’m using your own word here) the campaign?
All of his campaign contributions and spending must still comply with all federal campaign finance laws and FEC reporting requirements, so he is still following this law. $579,178,033, or 91%, have all come from individual donations. He has raised money from bigger donors and smaller donors nearly equally, getting much of it through the internet.
Interestingly enough, I remember Newt Gingrich complaining about this law and the irony it had affecting McCain’s campaign, but I don’t recall this act having a negative impact on his campaign, due to the fact that this was during the last two months of the election. There is still a lot of resentment in the Republican Party over this act, especially with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
By the way, J.
Assuming you are right about McCain-Feingold Act, being “his greatest legislative achievement”, it sure is nice to have voted for someone who actually has a legislative achievement. You should try it sometime.
Unlike others, I can appreciate the accomplishments of people whose policies I don’t agree with. I don’t blatantly ignore McCain’s accomplishments like you do with Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
After 2 years of following this election, I still can’t name 3 things that Obama has accomplished as an Illinois and/or US Senator. Can you?
In the Illionois senate, he created legislation reforming ethics and health care laws. The Illnois police acknowledged he help to enact death penalty reforms.
With Dick Lugar, he created a law that expanded the nuclear proliferation threat reduction concept to conventional weapons. With tom Coburn, he created a law that established USAspending.gov, a web search engine on federal spending. With Senator Feingold, the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act, he created more transparency by increasing public awareness concerning lobbying activity and funding, places more restrictions on gifts for congressmen, and disclosure of earmarks on bills.
If you can’t name three after following the election for two years, well, I don’t know what to say. You watch one ad and you at least get one. You watch one policy speech and you’ll at least get three.
Wow…. pretty big debate.
Note to PD: Sarah Palin originally did just what the base needed. It fired it up big time… Did you see that emotion before that? People were like dragging their feet about voting for Mccain. She served the purpose.
Now, why she hurt the campaign. Who said this “And I can see Russia from my house” Palin… Nope…Tina Fey…. Yep. Even though the clip on SNL was extremely funny it added to the idea that Palin was a joke.
Then 150000 clothes being taken by the media and run around everywhere did what the media could not do to her earlier. Ruin her appearance. Edited Couric interview, really badly edited to show her as a pinhead hurt her worse.
That is why Palin hurt the campaign. But it was already a lost year for The GOP
Oh well..better luck next time I guess. Obama and hope … lets see if he delivers
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