Fair enough, but I think that McCain's statement regarding Palin is a joke, and it's designed to draw the least likely presidential republican candidate (in Palin) to win the Iowa cock-ass . . . and should that happen, obama wins!
Even if Silly Sarah does run and then wins Iowa, I wouldn't put money on the Tea Party Darlin' winning the nomination. Her appeal is to a fairly narrow segment of the GOP. And in the general election (even though she and Donald Trump may think she could win), I think she'd have about the same chance as a declawed house cat in a cage fight with a Rottweiler.
Remember when McCain was the least likely among republican presidential contenders to win the nomination in '08?
No, can't say that I do.
His campaign was in disarray and had no money ..... then, suddenly by golly, he was back in business and he went on to win the republican nomination? Where did this sudden burst of cash and energy come from, I mean, the guy was a write off and then, BANG, he's the nominee? Sumtin awful fishee about that one if you ask me.
Just a suggestion, but you might want to hit up the old Google Machine and construct a basic timeline. You know what they say, Facetious: the memory is the first thing to go... and I forget what the second thing is. :dunno:
One by one, his opponents basically self-destructed during the primaries. He began to get donations when the others sputtered out and by the end, he steam rolled it.
So that's my question, who exactly inside the democratic party circles reinvigorated McCain, the worst possible, least popular republican candidate to run against obama?
Well, we know how much $$$ Soros spent in ought four to defeat bush, so how much did he pledge to reinvig a certain losing republican potus candidate in John McCain? Abracadaba! Hocus Pocus! :1orglaugh
If you go back and check, you'll find that McCain wrapped up the GOP nomination well before it was decided whether it would be Clinton or Obama for the Democrats. I like a good conspiracy theory as much as the next person, but they can't be based on 2+2=5.
AFAIK, Soros, and any other liberal donor, was probably fighting to get their pick as the candidate, and not concerned with who the Republicans had... especially since the GOP nomination was all but wrapped up while the Dems were still fighting amongst themselves.
McCain, certainly no friend of the republican party apparatus, is sorta doing the same thing, albeit w/out the money, he's buffering up the least qualified republican candidate in Sarah P in order to secure and facilitate an Obama victory in 'XII... at least that's the thinking, I think.
Personally, I was something of a fan of the 1999 version of John McCain. He was not one of these Holy Roller Evangelical types, not a fiscal ideologue (even admitted that he didn't understand economics very well) and had a record for being rather pragmatic and honest with his words... whether they were popular or followed the party line or not. So I was still open minded about him in early 2008. But when he picked Palin, I realized that he had taken a bow to the ESTABLISHMENT, Karl Rove and "The Base". The same forces that had destroyed him in 1999-2000 with lies and innuendo, he was now a puppet to.

Even when I don't agree with everything they say or believe, I appreciate independent thinkers - which is why I respect Ron Paul. I don't have much use for sheep.
Sorry, no time for a proofread (again :o)
Make of it what you will...out to work in the field now. :wave2:
That's OK. I understood you very well. Headed to the field, eh? Well, as Sgt. Phil Esterhaus used to say:
"Let's be careful out there."
But before you go back to the field, an honest, straight up question for you: if not McCain, who do you think should have won the GOP nomination in 2008... and why would that person have had any more of a chance than McCain/Palin? If you pick a social conservative, whose only economic message was
"all we need to do is dee-regulate and cut taxes... and all will be well"... do you really think the American people would have bought that one (again)?
I've never been a member of either political party. But I find the current situation with the GOP particularly sad, if not disturbing. Anyone who refuses to drink the Kool-Aid risks being called a RINO. When a party is made up of "yes men" (and women)... I don't know, but I've been in a room filed with sycophants before, and I had to take TWO showers to get the stench off me when I got back to the hotel. So IMO, the GOP seems to be relying on the herd mentality... and that ain't good.