McCain was set up.

[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.

[InternetHero]

If Republican masterminds were that savvy to the coming economic crisis why didn't they just do more to try and fix it and blame the Democrats rather than somehow amazingly concoct a conspiracy to rig their own primary?

I'm sorry, it doesn't make much sense.

[USS_Logic]

+1 for an interesting and original theory. Regardless if it's true or not it doesn't matter because it's stated as a theory instead of fact.

[8thDegreeSavage]

Originally Posted by InternetHero

If Republican masterminds were that savvy to the coming economic crisis why didn't they just do more to try and fix it and blame the Democrats rather than somehow amazingly concoct a conspiracy to rig their own primary?

I'm sorry, it doesn't make much sense.

Oh so you think that they know how to fix it do you?

The market(Globally and in the USA itself) says otherwise.

[8thDegreeSavage]

Originally Posted by USS_Logic

+1 for an interesting and original theory. Regardless if it's true or not it doesn't matter because it's stated as a theory instead of fact.

Well yeah I posted it as a talking point.

I have been following Republican/Right-Wing political campaigning for quite sometime and I have never seen a campaign so clumsy, short-sighted and sporadic.

Hard line cons(In the Media and Political sphere) have always disliked McCain. Always.

[USS_Logic]

Originally Posted by 8thDegreeSavage

Well yeah I posted it as a talking point.

I have been following Republican/Right-Wing political campaigning for quite sometime and I have never seen a campaign so clumsy, short-sighted and sporadic.

Hard line cons(In the Media and Political sphere) have always disliked McCain. Always.

i remember even ann coulter saying she would vote obama if mccain got the nom...

...but she has always been insane IMO...

[8thDegreeSavage]

Insane and a pandering shock jock, but she speaks very close to the Republican cores message, albeit with more venom.

[knives_out]

someone set us up the bomb!

[USS_Logic]

Originally Posted by knives_out

someone set us up the bomb!

wow... flashback to 2001...

[gasguzzler]

I posted about this the other day, and agree with what you're saying. I think sometime earlier this year, McCain realized, "You know, whoever is President for the next 4-8 years is going to have to deal with some of the most difficult times in quite a while. Do I really want to be President?" I think he may have sabotaged his own campaign. I don't think he wants to be President, especially at his age. Heck, I'm pretty young and I don't think I could mentally or physically keep up with the demands of the Presidency in the next few years.