kwc57
BOHICA Obama
The Repugnants seek power for power's sake. They are willing to use demagoguery if that will get them elected.
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They had a much better chance of winning with Paul than McCain.
McCain was not a good canidate, at all. Way to non-conservative for the majority of americans.
I've commented on this before, but I'll say it again. The Republican field was far to wide last election. Each candidate was trying to "out-conservative" their opponents. Too often when one would fall, they would not endorse any of the others left. You don't see that in Democrats. They don't really try to "out-liberal" each other. Usually they throw their backing behind an opponent when they lose in the primaries. They go into an election unifed behind their candidate. Republicans don't. They bitch and grouse all the way to the polls and complain about the candidate their primary process produced.
I also couple that with some blame on talk radio and punditry. They spent far too much time trying to defeat the Democratic candidate than they ever did promoting a conservative candidate. Hannity billed his show first as the Stop Hillary Express and later as the Stop Obama Express. Did he really think that liberals were listening to his show and he was going to change their minds? It was watsed breath. Talk radio hosts have huge egos and they can't face the prospect of supporting a candidate early in the primaries only to have them lose. They fear it will make them look stupid or irrelevant for backing a loser. So instead, they do it in a backhanded fashion. I'll use Hannity again as an example. His guy was Rudy, but he wouldn't come right out and say it. What he did instead was have Rudy on his show more than any other candidate and treat him with kid gloves. When he had the other candidates on, he asked them much tougher questions. But again, he would never come right out and support Rudy openly.
Too many candidates infighting over who is more conservative than the other and the talking head movers and shakers not helping to narrow and define the field play a major part in who the candidate will be. Conservatives need to put the petty bickering aside and unify or die.