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Originally Posted by buggyone
Rubicon,
If the Republican ticket in 2008 was McCain (Huckabee, Romney) they would have won. It was putting Sarah Palin on as the VP candidate that lost the election for Republicans. She and her family (not bashing here) were too much baggage for voters to want a heartbeat from being President.
Put up someone like Romney with Huckabee as VP candidate and Republicans can win in 2012. Put up Bachmann or Paul and middle of the road to moderate right voters will vote for the Democrat candidates.
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McCain would have had my vote too. He lost me with his VP choice, pandering to the far right of the party, and then really sealed the deal for me when he let his handlers make his campaign totally negative, almost totally avoiding reasonable debate on the issues.
By the way, the upcoming 2012 campaign might be a flip-flop from 2008. All the political strategists that I've heard recently have said whoever the GOP candidate is, the only way Obama can win is with a bitterly negative campaign strategy. They opine that with $1 billion to spend, we'll be inundated with negative ads.
That's too bad. I'm guessing whatever Congress we wind up with on January 20, 2013 will be even more fractured and partisan than now...if that's possible.