Quote:McCain didn't want to be president?


Of all the things you can say about McCain, that's not one of them. Just look how bitter he became after his loss.


His choice of Palin was the ultimate political move based on his desperation to be president. Against his better judgement he tapped Palin to be a game changer. It blew up in his face because Palin turned out to be a joke (much like trump is), but he didn't pick her to tank the race because he didn't want to be president.

 

Based on the campaign he ran in 2008, it's clear he didn't really have the desire to win that election.  He may have liked the idea of being president, but not enough to actually run the kind of campaign that would have given him a better shot.  He was shell shocked by the fact that his status as a beloved "maverick" in the mainstream media didn't give him any gravitas once he was the nominee for the party running against the myth that was created by the same mainstream media. 

 

There were far more credible options McCain could have chosen to be his running mate at the time.  Selecting her as his running mate was an attempt to add a young fresh face to an old, tired ticket.  McCain was simply the next guy in line in 2008, much like past republicans like Bob Dole were in years past.  Picking Palin failed miserably because she wasn't seasoned enough to be an effective campaigner on a national level.  She actually had decent political instincts, but she was stymied by a nominee who was paralyzed by political correctness as he tried to avoid offending anyone by taking a strong position on any issue.

 

I wasn't a huge fan of Palin as his running mate, but I was even less impressed with McCain. 

 

Quote:Trump hit on all the right issues? How? Oh..yeah.. By stating most Mexicans don't have any value here. Weird way to bring up the immigration " issue". The dead American dream? How rich he is? Yep...hammered that stuff outta the park ( ave)

McCain wasn't in it to win it?

Trump is a necessary joke?

Palin would have raised through the ranks if not strapped to a horrible nominee?

She wasn't a distraction in the campaign?

Ok


It wasn't just Trump who discredited himself

 

McCain's campaign was dead before he was even the nominee.  As soon as the media created the myth known as Barack Obama, he was toast.  Anyone with a functional IQ who followed politics even remotely could see that from the start.  Even McCain knew he was done because the narrative was already being spun that if you disagreed with Obama, you were clearly a racist.  Forget the fact that the guy had zero resume to stand behind as he ran.  He could read a teleprompter and speak the words of others masterfully.  That and his skin tone were all that mattered in 2008. 

 

Palin didn't distract anyone from the fact that there was a weak nominee on the republican side.  Nothing she was going to do was going to hinder that from being the obvious truth. 

 

Palin's rise (to whatever extent that might have been) was absolutely snuffed out by the McCain campaign.  Between false depictions of her by SNL becoming the narrative that people believed was actually her, and the sniping by those McCain loyalists inside the campaign who did everything they could to trash her, that campaign ended whatever political aspirations she might have had.  7 years later, people like you are still fixated on her.  I wonder why that is?

 

I won't get into a discussion with you about what Trump said and how he hit on all the big issues that should matter to republican voters because you're simply not capable of seeing beyond your own bias.  You make that abundantly clear every time you post in this forum.  You're the perfect democrat voter.

 

Trump has been discrediting himself for decades.  That doesn't mean he's not capable of being an asset in this campaign for the GOP.  He is a wing nut who is more about self promotion than anything else, but if you bothered to listen to his announcement, he didn't touch on a single social issue, which is exactly as it should be.  This election shouldn't be about who can marry whom.  It needs to be about who can do a better job of managing the economy, trade, the military, and national security, and that's precisely what he did. He knows he doesn't have a legitimate chance to win anything, but he can absolutely have a hand in keeping the narrative where it needs to be with such a weak cast of characters running on the democrat ticket.

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