McCain was set up.

[JSN]

i highly doubt this.

show me the good candidates you can't can you.

the only real maneuvering the behind the scenes republicans did was to marginalize paul, and to make sure to try to eliminate the most electable democrats.

so in summary, mccain is a shit candidate, but there wasn't someone else less shitty and they did succeed in getting obama as his opponent which was the best move they could make.

it's like the 'first' rocky movie. they did everything they could to win the fight but in the end a win is beyond their reach.

who knows though, they could pull out some crazy voting shit and steal this one too.

[pittelp]

Okay.

[Shin_Akuma]

Originally Posted by USS_Logic

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

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

I remember her saying she would vote Hillary. (Back when everyone assumed she would win) That made a little more sense as I hear Ann Coulter also has a vagina.

[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

[VegasRich]

Ummm " A " For effort and originality..but no way the Republicans want to lose an Election..its bad for Buisness. Losing the Election and more importantly getting curb stomped in the Election is proof that their way of thinking is no longer valid, its a declaration by the people of this country that they are to blame for the state we are in right now..true or not.

The conservatives would never agree to this because once power is lost its a long climb back to the top.

Good try though and an interesting Theory.