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In a new op-ed in The Washington Post, former Chief of Staff to President Obama William Daley says that the moment John McCain picked Sarah Palin as his running mate is the moment that the GOP descended into complete obscurity. Palin helped usher in the worst of the worst of the Party, and it sent a message to the Partys leadership that they had completely lost control.
Ring of Fires Farron Cousins discusses this.
deathrind
(1,786 posts)That I lost all respect for McCain...what a coincidence...
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Doc Holliday
(719 posts)that he showed us all that he wasn't worthy of respect, or even being taken seriously as a candidate.
Putting Palin on the ticket was nothing more than a stupidly cynical miscalculation, especially without being vetted. The GOP actually thought they could scoop up all those disaffected Hillary voters just because Palin has lady-parts, too. There is no other demonstrable basis for this ridiculous farce of a strategy.
Whoever came up with the idea of putting Palin on a national ticket should have his cock nailed to a stump, then be given a good hard shove.
Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel
(3,273 posts)If HRC gets the democratic nomination they will bring in some unknown woman that isn't in the debates right now and run her.
Or they just might get Condoleezza Rice out of hiding
63splitwindow
(2,657 posts)displays something I do not have sufficient words to describe...... and I have a pretty large, colorful vocabulary.
Iwillnevergiveup
(9,298 posts)of McCain on Meet the Press hastened a major decline in it's viewership. That also happened pre-Palin and only got worse. Remember how he opined the the Iraq war?
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)They descended into a lot of things but I don't think that "obscurity" is the right word for a party that controls the house, dominates the airwaves, and gets their way more often than not.
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)..reality rears it's ugly face.
MissKat
(218 posts)How about adding a few names like Lee Atwater, the master of slime. Rush Limbaugh, the mouth that roared. Glenn Beck, the master of conspiracy. Ann Coulter, a witch with a B., Fox and friends, nattering nabobs of negativity, all of these people have helped push the GOP over the sanity cliff. Is it any wonder that Republican voters don't want anything to do with Republican politicians? The GOP members of both the house and senate need to be put into a room and someone needs to scream at them-- "Your voters can't stand you." But I'm not certain they'd get the message.
I am stunned by the Republican leadership allowing the assault on education, mocking scientists and demanding that liberal thought be taken out of higher education. They yap about a war on Christmas when they're busy conducting their own wars against women, against intellectuals, against people of color, against immigrants, against anyone who wants to disagree with them.
I dearly wish that President Obama would've come out louder, harder, meaner about Fox News. I wish Democratic leadership would've stood up to the lying liars.
63splitwindow
(2,657 posts)on every issue you listed. They make the incumbents look far left by comparison. Take a look at the slime in the majority at the following site as one minor example.
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Skittles
(153,169 posts)Pastiche423
(15,406 posts)The party had already been destroyed by W, long before Palin came along to emphasize the destruction.