[Octavian]

Originally Posted by 8thDegreeSavage

I am going to go out on a limb and suggest that McCain actually won the nomination because the Republican power elite knew that the financial crisis was something they did not want to "own" or deal with and that due to McCains history as a Conservative outsider, they chose him as the sacrificial lamb to be slaughtered on election day.

Its a pretty far flung guess I realize, but given how bumbling(Republicans are typically much stronger campaigners than what has been shown through this election) things are with his campaign, I am starting to think he is just being set up as the ultimate fall guy because his political peers do not really like him all that much.

I mean how idiotic do his handlers have to be to chose Palin? She is a terribly bad choice for VP, but new enough and cute enough that giving her exposure on the National level will tune her for future contests in which she may be of more value. She also has zero connections on Capital Hill for the most, due to her freshness to politics at this level.

Do we even need to mention the ongoing case against her for abuse of power, someone had to have known the timeline on the conclusion there, and that it would be bad regardless of outcome. How could they have missed that?

I can see there being upper level handlers, taking advantage of McCains obvious hard-on for being one day President and he got blinded into letting individuals run his campaign into the ground just to be sure.

The tone change from mildly on point with message soured into insane references to domestic terrorists. Someone has to be orchestrating this with the intention for him to lose.

You're right 8th, that's a pretty far flung idea