The Republicans want to lose

[Patiod]

I've been watching this campaign, and they want to lose. They chose someone at the end of his career, maybe saving the younger guys for later.

They know what they've done to this country, and they know that the next 4 years will consist of cleaning up the mess - paying for Iraq (finally and image-wise) and getting us out of the economic nightmare that results when all control of the financial henhouse is given over to greedy foxes.

So I think that rather than promoting McCain, their plan is to spend their time and money this summer beating up and trying to weaken Obama, hoping to render him as ineffective as possible when he's inevitably elected, and then blaming him for inevitable recession and international instability they've nurtured and fostered.

[CrispyQ]

1. "...when he's inevitably elected"

Are you kidding? You think this election is in the bag?

Who counts the votes? How many of us vote on machines & systems that are manufactured by right wing supporting corporations? Already, several states are purging their voting lists, including my state, which is a swing state, & I can assure you our republican secretary of state isn't purging republican voters from the list.

If you think Cheney amassed this much power in the executive to hand it over to a democrat, you seriously 'misunderestimate' him.

:banghead:

[demnan]

2. The Republicans always play to win

and they play dirty.

[cbc5g]

3. No, they definitely want to win

Obama is the underdog here, there's no doubt about it. But I know that even if McCain wins, which there is a 50/50 chance he will, the Republican party will be tarnished for decades. If they overturn Roe, they risk A LOT. And if they don't, they risk A LOT. If they go into another war, they risk A LOT. If they continue huge tax cuts while we are hugely in debt, they risk A LOT. They'll run the economy into the ground. They are losing the next generation. The Republican party is almost done for.

[RaleighNCDUer]

4. I think you are right - but so are those responding to you.

The republican party is in such disarray that there are two equally powerful factions - one wants to step back and let the Dems suffer the consequencens over the next 4 years, blaming everything that goes wrong as a result of repub policies on the Dem administration; the other reflexively wants to cling to power, confident that they can control the message enough to deflect any fallout from the Bush years onto the Dems. And it is a tossup as to which faction will succeed. I can't even decide if McCain was pushed to the front by the first group or the second. All I am sure of is he's a pasty for one or the other.