"There are fundamental facts that cannot be denied," he asserted on CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday. "When we selected, or asked, Sarah Palin to be my running mate, it energized our party. We were ahead in the polls, until the stock market crashed."
The implication is that the Republicans would have won were it not for the economic collapse that took place on September 15.
(I like this button that Geoffrey uses at Huffington so much I decided to borrow it. I am sure he will not mind.)Clearly John McCain's ridiculous excuse for his failing campaign, "it was the economy stupid", has not set well with Geoffrey Dunn.
He carefully, and artfully, dismantles McCain's poorly constructed reasons for his epic fail and places blame right where it belongs. On Sarah Palin's elegantly attired (With RNC money) shoulders
Just click the title to read the entire Huffington Post article.
So, Palin got to Schmidt, to, huh?
ReplyDeleteThe guy who said Palin was a complete disaster as McCain's V.P. suddenly got religion:
“I believe to this day that had she not been picked as the vice presidential candidate, we would never have been ahead — not for one second, not for one minute, not for one hour, not for one day,” Schmidt said today.
Schmidt said the former Alaska governor has “great talents,” and putting her on the ticket generated enough excitement to transform the race. Other circumstances worked against McCain, however, he said.
“We were three points ahead on Sept. 15 when the stock market crashed, and then the
election was over,” he said.
Asked after the talk if he stood by his recent critical comments about Palin’s viability as a presidential candidate, Schmidt said he did.
“I said what I said on the 2012 (race). … I said what I said today,” he told reporters.
Source, Arkansas News
Can't wait for the explanations of this warp speed change of heart.
Remember hearing sometime ago that McCain's reason for selecting Sarah was Franklin Graham & the religious right insisted on it. McCain scares me just slightly less than Sarah, but they are both nutjobs. Hope he loses reelection in 2010. Hope all those old f**** lose. McCain did a real disservice to his country with his choice & his smug arrogance is annoying. Way to go Geoffrey Dunn.
ReplyDeleteHere's how it works: Geoffrey Dunn's breaking down of the game film of the 2008 election only interests people who for God only knows what reason give any credence to the Huffington Post.
ReplyDeleteI keep waiting for you folks to come to your senses and try to help the President get his agendas up and running or is your game plan simply
to obsess about Palin and things like the decline of the dollar, Israel's
declaration to invade Iran by December, and the deteriorating situation in Kandahar simply going to vanish when you solve the Palin problem?
Gryphen, can I borrow that Wasilla dictionary.
ReplyDeleteI do not expect McCain to ever tell the complete truth about his life and the choices he made - it would reflect all too clearly on his lack of judgment and honor.
ReplyDeleteThere are some further news, also freshly arrived from a source in Alaska:
ReplyDeleteKristan Cole, Sarah Palin's best friend, trustee of her (now defunct?) and possibly unethical Alaska Fund Trust (Legal Defense Fund aka Slush Fund) and "partner in crime" regarding the highly suspicious events surrounding the Matanuska Creamery (Kristan Cole was appointed by Sarah Palin as the Board Chair)...
MATANUSKA CREAMERY DESASTER
...has now published five brand-new promotion videos for her Real Estate business and put them on youtube yesterday, see for example here:
Kristan Cole Wasilla Real Estate
The videos itself are pretty poor and won't win her an Oscar, but it's noteworthy that there were produced by Seth Adam Smith, who is one of the contributors at C4P and has made several videos for them.
Another indication who incredibly close the C4Peers actually are to the Palin camp.
If you want more proof for that, you should check out the facebook friends list of Sarah's close friend (former receptionist, then Palin appointed top official) Ivy Frye...
I also doubt all the talk about McCain ahead in the polls "until the economic collapse". I think Obama's ground game in all 50 states about getting out the vote would have won the election, even if the economy hadn't crashed.
ReplyDeletePalin wouldn't have helped or hurt. I think Obama would have won regardless of who McCain nominated. His campaign was just so much better and people were sick to death of the Republicans.
Thanks, Gryphen, for posting this article!
ReplyDeleteSenator McCain has been making excuses for her for over a year. He and his campaign caused all the controversy by selecting such an inept V.P. candidate. They eventually paid dearly for the decision.
How many cover-ups were necessary? I'd sure like to know who it was on his staff that came up with ..."Bristol is five months P.G." That person should get a "Nobel Prize in Medicine." As they have said, "it was the most brilliant move in the history of politics."
Just imagine being the nominee for POTUS and finding out your VP pick had faked a pregnancy? Now, we are talking about the Governor of a State here! How McCain lived through all this...is remarkable!
His continued support of her..."baffles me."
Ginger
anon at 7:14 pm -- are you familiar with the 'butterfly effect' ?
ReplyDeleteBecause the solution to the 'Palin problem' may resonate throughout
a great many realms. I have had encounters in the etheric with the entity manifesting as Miss Sarah -- trust me, it is not what it appears to be --
and when this entity is exposed through Miss Sarah's manipulations being made public, we will have a lovely unfolding of the 'butterfly effect'.
Thank you Mr. Dunn. You rock and please keep the heat on McCain. He is a disgraceful man and cover it up artist.
ReplyDeleteSomeone please investigate this OSHA matter that has come up in regard to the Palin buildings on Lake Lucille.
Is it because the Lake is dead that it is alright to allow those that hate mother earth to violate her further? Seriously, what is up with that? I would be punished if I let a AAA battery slip into my garbage.
Wasilla people are alright with poisonous medical trash going into their landfills as well. Is there a way to end their destruction to the planet and hold them accountable?
Can you believe Bristol would even want her babies in that cesspool?
All the dead people from Palin's Medical mess and now this.
It just boggles the mind...Which one is pulling the strings here?? This gets stranger by the day..
ReplyDeleteNot sure why CNN's John King went to Alaska - maybe he did not even see SP? Here are his latest FB posts, newest first:
ReplyDelete@mtgoldeneagle this was a tight trip because needed to get back to DC ... So mostly anchorage and valley for economy glimpse
about 8 hours ago from Echofon in reply to mtgoldeneaglehttp://twitpic.com/lgb9x - Sad reality of homeless and/or jobless. Those helping are overwhelmed and out of beds. Anchorage AK
7:45 PM Oct 13th from TwitPic http://twitpic.com/lfpfe - Note the holes. Like a keep off the grass sign
5:11 PM Oct 13th from TwitPic http://twitpic.com/le55o - Pandemonium bookstore, Wasilla
10:37 AM Oct 13th from TwitPic http://twitpic.com/ldtdq - Morning Musts, Alaska .....
9:07 AM Oct 13th from TwitPic http://twitpic.com/lc7fq - Alaska Sunset
8:21 PM Oct 12th from TwitPic http://twitpic.com/lbzhq - The road to Seward
7:22 PM Oct 12th from TwitPic http://twitpic.com/lbp45 - Native Alaskan art: whale bone; ivory face
6:09 PM Oct 12th from TwitPic
Anon@7:02PM---A certain segment of the American population can walk AND chew gum at the same time.
ReplyDeleteI've always found McCain unbelievable. Even his "war hero" stories ring untrue. Palin was a good match for him, could maybe even outlie him.
ReplyDeleteThey are both still at it, trying to stay in the pay-stream based on American illusionism. They are two festering canker sores of the socially transmitted disease of uberpatriotism.
I think Mccain picking her as vp did chang e everything. Lets remember she was the first woman on a repub ticket. She was new, pretty and different. Then she opened her mouth and boom, that was that. People have always said the vp doesnt matter, she shot that out of the water.
ReplyDeleteI have always believed that its Malik the Jew counter who keeps Mccain in line where she is concerned. To much money to be made off her to let his true feelings get out. If you need any proof of how Mccain feels about her look at his daughter who REFUSES to even speak about her. That says more to me than any words ever could.
lexky
SP certainly didn't help McCain any, but don't you think that 8 years of GW had anything to do with putting Obama in office? Those of us of a certain stripe certainly enjoy bashing Sarah, but the main reason Obama got elected wasn't because of old man McCain or our ex-guv . . . it was the 8 f++king years of George f--king Bush and the cynical incompetence that prevailed during his tenure. Gawd, what a piece of sh!t he was.
ReplyDeleteIf I can risk a comment as a Brit, for us, there's an old bit of vulgar doggerel called Eskimo Nell (I know all the right names but that's its title) and the take of a lot of folk here was that the Republican team was Mr McGoo and Eskimo Nell. The clip of McCain stomping round the stage clinched it.
ReplyDeleteGryphen, what the hell? ''...rooted deeply in McCain's peculiar sense of chivalry...''
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure what you're saying, considering McCain returned from the war and dumped his disabled wife and disowned his family to marital infidelity and marriage to the now Cindy McCain. What a completely dishonorable person.
Thanks for those pictures, yesterday. Those two buildings now sit so close together I'd guess you can just pass items window to window, lol. What's the point of that proximity?
John McCain cannot disparage Sarah Palin because he sold his soul to James Dobson, leader of Focus on the Family. You would have to read Max Blumenthal’s “Republican Gomorrah” to gain real insight into the influence that evangelical Christianity has on the political right.
ReplyDeleteDobson has become the principal talking head for evangelical Christians, surpassing Bill Graham, Jerry Falwell (deceased) and Pat Robertson. One of the tenets of this cult is that unless you have sinned, confessed and are “born again,” you’re worthless. Because the Republicans pander to this element of their base, they must grovel at Dobson’s feet and do his bidding so they can be assured of the evangelical support.
In addition, McCain has to run for reelection next year and he may well need Palin to bring in the base for him. He’s not too successful at doing that himself.
I am also a Christian, but my minister does NOT tell his congregation how to vote. He prays for our president – no matter what his political party – to have the wisdom to make decisions that are right for ALL people. He does not pray for the president’s death, nor does he send us out to yell and scream at so-called political rallies.
If he EVER did this, he would find himself preaching to an empty church.
John McCain knows his selection of Sarah Palin was a disaster, but he will never admit it. McCain repeats the same old lines because he is stubborn as an old mule, and was desperate to try to attain what has eluded him his entire career. He cannot ever admit his failings...never has, never will, and that's why he has never gone further than Senator in his political career. I hope the people of Arizona will finally vote this old coot into retirement...he certainly doesn't need the money
ReplyDeleteThe Republican Party lost the election when they selected McCain. I will admit Palin added a little flavor to the stew, but when someone looked beneath the winks, Betchas and short skirts, they discovered the perfect example of the "Peter Principle." The Republican Party is in such disarray they are grasping at straws for leadership. The Republican Party needs to find new blood, not McCain, Palin, Huckabee, or Romney, but they are spending all of their time and energy trying to redo "has beens" and "never should have beens."
ReplyDeleteI agree with Anon@2:14am. James Dobson is running the GOP since they sold their soul to the evangelicals to stay in power. Until they get the message to take religion out of politics we will see more of the same unfortunately. I keep waiting for someone in the GOP to wake up and realize the hate mongering and medieval reglious dogma doesn't work. And I guess at that point you will see a third party appear with the likes of Cheney and Palin.
ReplyDeleteTrouble is Gryphen, Palin did increase McCain's popularity immensely. That's not a reflection on the suitability of Palin as VP, it's just a reflection on the stupidity of the American people when it comes to choosing good people to run their country. I would have thought at least some of your followers would realize that!
ReplyDeleteSarah Q.
They NEVER put "country first"!!! I hope they all lose in 2010!
ReplyDeleteSarah Q, as usual you are behind on the US 2008 election polling results. Palin's polling sunk the GOP; her negatives equalled or surpassed her positives with GOP voters and Independents.
ReplyDeleteSarah Q, it never bothers me when you call the American people stupid, because you never have your facts straight. It's actually kind of funny. You're like a character from Monty Python.