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Sarah under the bus
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I have been asked what i think about the staffers from team McCain throwing Sarah under the bus. I find it very ironic that they did that. I believe very strongly Senator McCain wanted his VP to be Joe L or Tom Ridge. Romney was not an option because of his wealth. The handlers speaking out about Sarah in the way they have just shows that they cared more about winning than about the ticket. Did Gov Palin hurt us with the middle yes. Did that cost us states like Virginia, Ohio, NC, Indiana and Florida probably. It is like a 4 game sweep you can lose every game by 1 and still be swept. That is what happened. We still needed Colorado and Nev to pull the thing off. So without those states it would have been closer but not a win anyway. Team Obama outperformed Team McCain hands down. The Senator is very loyal and will probably never admit to that.

I believe the staffers wanted her. I think the decision was to go with a women and E Dole was to old. Kay Bailey was not up to the camp schedule. Senator McCain in the end is responsible for the call he made it by being the Pres Cand and he will live with the results. Senator McCain selected Gov Palin and i supported his decision. It appears to be a bad move but it is always easier to make that call after the cards have been played.

Pres elect Obama won it is no time to attack him as he has his hands full and with the problems we have around the world we must speak with one voice. A divided America will only make us less safe at this point. he is our new leader we must support him and hope he makes the correct decisions the security of our nation is in his hands.
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I have been asked what i think about the staffers from team McCain throwing Sarah under the bus. I find it very ironic that they did that. I believe very strongly Senator McCain wanted his VP to be Joe L or Tom Ridge. Romney was not an option because of his wealth. The handlers speaking out about Sarah in the way they have just shows that they cared more about winning than about the ticket. Did Gov Palin hurt us with the middle yes. Did that cost us states like Virginia, Ohio, NC, Indiana and Florida probably. It is like a 4 game sweep you can lose every game by 1 and still be swept. That is what happened. We still needed Colorado and Nev to pull the thing off. So without those states it would have been closer but not a win anyway. Team Obama outperformed Team McCain hands down. The Senator is very loyal and will probably never admit to that.

I believe the staffers wanted her. I think the decision was to go with a women and E Dole was to old. Kay Bailey was not up to the camp schedule. Senator McCain in the end is responsible for the call he made it by being the Pres Cand and he will live with the results. Senator McCain selected Gov Palin and i supported his decision. It appears to be a bad move but it is always easier to make that call after the cards have been played.

Pres elect Obama won it is no time to attack him as he has his hands full and with the problems we have around the world we must speak with one voice. A divided America will only make us less safe at this point. he is our new leader we must support him and hope he makes the correct decisions the security of our nation is in his hands.
I read a very good story the other day about the McCain campaign that talked about the choosing of Palin. If i can find it i will post it. The guy that wrote it has been following the McCain campaign for a long time and has some very good contacts in the camp. Basically he said that Steve Schmidt was the one that originally wanted Palin. He sold the idea to Davis, then they went to McCAin, and McCAin made the final call. I think you are right though, if it had been up to McCain alone he would have chosen Joe.
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Hog,

That seems pretty accurate and Davis and Stevo where wrong. Hey they get paid big bucks to be wrong. That is the problem paid handlers if they lose they say opps and go on they never had a serious attachment to the cause. I think that really hurt the campaighn. Axelrod drove the story and the cause of Obama very well Davis did not. I always so the gamble of picking Joe L this way. yes many social conservatives would have walked. I think we would have lost 10% of our base. They would have not gone to Obama so it would not have hurt us the way Moderates going to him did. Joe L would have taken away the sidekick to Bush argument and made McCain look like a unity candidate. They then could have correctly sold Obama as a leftist and team McCain/Liebeman as centrist plus McCain would have been very comfrotable with Joe.

it really doesn't matter now the Repubs will never run anyone close to the mold of McCain again. He is a one of a kind person. I doubt that there is a canidate I would ever work so hard for as Sen McCain that runs again. WE lost suck it up drive on and it is America we truly love not just one citizen. We all need pres Oboma to be successful. It would be very selfish to root against him he controls the fate of the nation we all so very much love.
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