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Title: Senior McCain Aide: The GOP Is A 'Shrinking Entity'
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CNN POLITICAL TICKER
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Published: Apr 24, 2009
Author: CNN POLITICAL TICKER
Post Date: 2009-04-24 11:47:01 by Brian S
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(CNN) — John McCain’s general election campaign began as “the strategic equivalent of throwing a football through a tire at 50 yards” – and was doomed weeks before Election Day, his former chief strategist said Thursday. “We were running a campaign under extra difficult circumstances — the state of the Republican Party, the president’s unpopularity, the economy — a lot of issues that were not John McCain’s fault, but were John McCain’s problem in this race,” Schmidt told an audience at the University of Delaware, according to Politico. “When Lehman Brothers collapsed in the fall I knew pretty much right away that … from an electoral strategy perspective, the campaign was finished.” Schmidt and Obama campaign manager David Plouffe — who both attended, but did not graduate from Delaware — shared the stage and looked back at the 2008 campaign. Schmidt praised Obama's political skills. “This was, in my view, the unfinished Bobby Kennedy campaign — the idealism, the passion, the inspiration he gave to people, it was organic and it was real and it wasn’t manufactured at a tactical level in the campaign,” he said. The Republican strategist said Sen. John McCain passed over his first choice for vice president — Democrat-turned-Independent Joe Lieberman — in favor of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to avoid an all-out GOP civil war. “It was communicated back to us very clearly from within the party that not only was Senator Lieberman not acceptable, but any pro-choice nominee was not acceptable, [and] it would lead to a floor fight at the convention with an alternate nominee for vice president put into play. “Blowing up the party wasn’t one of the menu items of things that were going to improve our situation,” he said. Schmidt also criticized his party’s political performance in the early days of the Obama presidency. “As a matter of reality, in the first 100 days, [the Republican Party] has not done anything to improve its political position with regards to the fact that it has been a shrinking entity,” he said. Last week, the former McCain aide told a group of gay Republicans it was critical for the party to seriously weigh support for same-sex marriage.
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#1. To: Brian S, All (#0)
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Imagine the howling from freedom4um poster's if Joe Lieberman had been nominated for Veep ;-) P.S. It was bad enough when that picture of the Israhell flag on Palin's desk circulated.
_________________________________________________________________________ Easy to figure out. Too many people like McCain in high positions in the R wing of the party.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. They can't be rooted out, it'll take the complete destruction of the GOP and a new party to give anti-Democrats a new home.
_________________________________________________________________________ Ah yes, more of the same. The way to fix it is to move left. They learn nothing.
Yes, I suspect that is true.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Bob Dole can lend him some Viagra.
Good one dog.
"Satan / Cheney in "08" The Republican strategist said Sen. John McCain passed over his first choice for vice president — Democrat-turned-Independent Joe Lieberman — in favor of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to avoid an all-out GOP civil war.
"This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. “When will he come to Kenya to save us?”
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#2. To: X-15 (#1)
Senior McCain Aide: The GOP Is A 'Shrinking Entity'
Lord Acton
#3. To: James Deffenbach (#2)
"This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. “When will he come to Kenya to save us?”
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#4. To: Brian S (#0)
Last week, the former McCain aide told a group of gay Republicans it was critical for the party to seriously weigh support for same-sex marriage.
"Controlling carbon is a bureaucrat's dream. If you control carbon, you control life." — Dr. Richard Lindzen, MIT Professor of Meteorology
#5. To: X-15 (#3)
Lord Acton
#6. To: Brian S (#0)
Senior McCain Aide: The GOP Is A 'Shrinking Entity'
I've already said too much.
#7. To: MUDDOG (#6)
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