You can call me a right-wing wingnut or whatever. But this makes sense to me, and this does not. And it's been pretty consistent during the current election season.
Don't forget, he had a much harder nomination than McCain. When Obama was running against Clinton he was investigated just fine. Hillary threw everything at him and many connections were investigated, including Wright, including Ayers. In case of Ayers they didn't find enough substance and dropped it.
What I find interesting is how the right wing complains about Palin being investigated so much. She wasn't vetted to make the negatives "old news" which good campaigns do. She was completely unknown before the convention, she was introduced like a great achiever, don't you think it was _natural_ for the media to drop a lot of resources on her since so many people on both sides of the political spectrum wanted to know so much about her?
Also, shitty campaign is not a "meme". He did run a pretty bad campaign, even his big time supporters complain about it. His message was all over the place, the fund raising was weak when it was clear he would need lots of money to be competitive. We are yet to see how his ground operation turns out, a lot of republicans complain that Obama's campaign has a better voter turn out mechanism.
About "bouncing back". McCain had a very straight forward and easy nomination, he was done in March. After the St' Paul Convention he was up 8 points, then Lehman Brothers happened and 2 weeks down the road he dropped 12 points.
IMHO, the guy had a very decent shot at the presidency but instead of hammering a consistent conservative message he veered all over the place. I think he would be so much better off picking up Romney but McCain hated him since the primaries so the country didn't get to be first there, I suspect.
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What I find interesting is how the right wing complains about Palin being investigated so much. She wasn't vetted to make the negatives "old news" which good campaigns do. She was completely unknown before the convention, she was introduced like a great achiever, don't you think it was _natural_ for the media to drop a lot of resources on her since so many people on both sides of the political spectrum wanted to know so much about her?
Also, shitty campaign is not a "meme". He did run a pretty bad campaign, even his big time supporters complain about it. His message was all over the place, the fund raising was weak when it was clear he would need lots of money to be competitive. We are yet to see how his ground operation turns out, a lot of republicans complain that Obama's campaign has a better voter turn out mechanism.
About "bouncing back". McCain had a very straight forward and easy nomination, he was done in March. After the St' Paul Convention he was up 8 points, then Lehman Brothers happened and 2 weeks down the road he dropped 12 points.
IMHO, the guy had a very decent shot at the presidency but instead of hammering a consistent conservative message he veered all over the place. I think he would be so much better off picking up Romney but McCain hated him since the primaries so the country didn't get to be first there, I suspect.
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OK, very soon all of this will be just academic. Let's wait a little. :-)