frazzledgear
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- Mar 17, 2008
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Democrats hate their own losers and assume Republicans must as well. Even if the Democrat who lost was on the losing ticket as VP, his odds of getting the Democrat Presidential nomination in the future are slim-to-none. That just isn't true in the Republican Party though. It is why Nixon was given another shot at it after losing to Kennedy. And why Kerry's attempt to win the Democrat nomination again was a dumb pipe dream and over before it began. He never had a realistic chance of getting the Democrat nomination again. Just two different attitudes in both parties about those who may have lost a previous election.
McCain lost this election and it is due to Palin that he didn't lose by an even larger margin. Everything fell into place for Democrats and considering the political climate and economic problems, disapproval of Bush etc. - it really should have been a major blow-out for Obama on the scale of Reagan's win. Which means Republicans view Palin's political future much differently from Democrats would have if she were a Democrat.
Palin has lost an election before -and then went on to win an even higher office than the one she lost. And did so by the most difficult way to try and win an election -challenging an incumbent from her own party and taking it for herself. If Palin were a Democrat, her political future really would be at a dead end. But since she isn't -it isn't.