Originally posted by: Corbett
I completely disagree with the OP. Dems hate Joe Lieberman and Republicans only agree with him on ONE issue, Iraq.
McCain would have had a much better shot at winning had he done the following :
1 - Chosen Romney as VP. This would have turned Michigan Red this election and he would actually have a running mate who would actually knows how to fix financial messes.
2 - Thrown Bush under the bus a long long time ago. This would negate Obama's constant harping of "McBush" crap we have heard him fling around for the past 2 years.
3 - Hang the financial crisis around the neck of Obama and the democrats who have been in charge for the last 2 years, as well as promoted the very loans that created the housing crisis in the first place.
But I digress, Republicans are stuck with McCain, and I think a vast majority of us realize he was the wrong choice to make to put up against a young, smooth talking black democrat. The only reason to vote for him now is to keep the number 1 and number 3 liberals in the senate out of the White House.
I used to like McCain, specifically because he WASN'T a GWB sycophant, even when that was the "in" thing to be in the Republican party. Your point number 2 is well taken, and would have worked great on people like me who would actually like to vote for a moderate, but that strategy would have worked even less well than his current one because he wouldn't even BE the Republican candidate had he done that. As the choice of Sarah Palin showed, Republicans are still far too infatuated with the GWB type Republican to accept an actual moderate like McCain, so McCain had to try to reach out to the far right...and when that didn't work, he chose quite possibly the worst VP candidate ever to try to appeal to the "base".
McCain couldn't have done something right, because he's the wrong candidate for the job. He's an actual moderate who would probably be willing to work with liberals and would have told the religious right to go sodomize themselves. There's a reason he lost against Bush in the 2000 primary, and it's the same reason he had to turn into the new McCain to run in 2008, people like you would have lynched him had he ran as himself.
On the one hand, McCain did this to himself, but in all the finger pointing that will no doubt follow this election, I think Republicans might want to take some time to point the fingers at themselves.