Sean Hannity, thank you for killing McCain's campaign.

[onetwo]

In light of McCain's already questionable behavior in the wake of the crisis on the financial markets and in the debates, it appears that "palling around with terrorists" was the straw that finally broke the camel's back.

Thanks, Sean! Most satisfying 'EPIC FAIL' ever. I absolutely cannot wait for his November 5th show.

[SuperTrouper]

1. Alan Colmes, you piece of useless excrement. He should just quit that show

and rename it: Hannity Anti-Semite and Friends. In the interim, Hannity has exposed himself as a Jew-hater, Latino-hater, KKK Grand Wizard from Long Island. If I were Martina McBride and Bruce Hornsby I would be embarrassed to have my music associated with that racist, hate-mongering individual.

[Lint Head]

2. I can't stand to look at the 'thick necked' turd much less listen to him.

I feel the same way about Bush, except he has no neck but is still a piece of excrement that hates American soldiers and African Americans. :dem:

[leftist.]

3. Hate radio has been running this campaign.

That much is absolute. Hate radio commandeered this campaign early on after their universal dismissal of McCain in the primaries proved incorrect. McCain however was in the position of needing the hate radio base on his side and that was the conduit for the takeover. They forced Palin on the ticket and then lined her acceptance speech with phrases like "Barack Apollo Obama" and "wave the white flag of surrender" - talking points that were invented on the AM dial. Hate radio has also been instrumental in this recent - and monumentally foolish by any measure - campaign push of Obama's "association" with Ayers as well as the "pals around with terrorists" and "has something in common with Bin Laden" lines; and Hannity, Limbaugh, et al continue to push their message even in the face of so many other mainstream conservatives and republicans dismissing the techniques as foolish.

[WinkyDink]

4. Early on, I heard McCain being termed "too liberal" by radio, I believe Hannity.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

6. Hannity, Limbaugh, et. al have never really liked McCain all that much

Amazingly, it's because they think he's " too liberal" or somehow "squishy" when it comes to his political views and I remember hearing Hannity and McCain verbally clash over McCain's previous (fairly reasonable) immigration reform efforts back in 2007.
Of course, McCain has since embraced the "agents of intolerance" that he once professed to despise, he apparently gave in to picking Palin for VP when he probably would've been safer with a lot of other potential VP candidates, and, well, he's not a Democrat, so the hate radio jockeys will support him for President, albeit perhaps not as enthusiastically as they would support somebody like Palin for the top job (although I'm sure that they are busy praying for something bad to happen to McCain if he -god forbid- gets elected President)

Theirs is a "marriage of inconvenience" if there ever was one!

[underpants]

5. Spot on leftist.

I have been saying this for a while too. Palin IS talk radio. You and I are somewhat familiar with it but those who aren't indoctrinated into the story line it is frightening, like tuning into wrestling totally out of the blue.

Though talk radio (at least Rush and Savage-Hannity does) have a past that precludes them from going to GOD the extreme radical right "faith" crowd forced her too. McCain was in such bad straights that he had to pick a VP to keep what should have been afterthought supporters to show up.

Of course-this relates back to your point the religious right-McCain only got the nomination because
a. the field was horrifically bad
b. she stopped campaigning and let the field fall away
c.those 60 seconds of videotape in Wise County Va. of George Allen who was about to be anointed the New Reagan after he won the Senate race with 60% of the vote.

[leftist.]

7. Like tuning in to wrestling out of the blue!!! LOL!

I like it!

I also like your point about "afterthought" supporters, and with Palin the narrative of "guns, babies, and jesus" (thanks Rush!) coupled with the love affair hate radio audiences have for "attractive", hard-right women*, choosing her went hand in glove with the base. I do also recall hearing at least three hosts - Limbaugh, Hannity, and Hugh Hewitt - talking up Palin in the days before the choice was made.

Good point about Allen as well. The GOP are in a bad way for the next decade or so given that all of their rising stars keep burning out before they get to shine.

* As an aside, if anyone is even still reading this :P when Ann Coulter was just coming on to the scene there were an uncomfortable amount of posters at free republic who were obsessed with her, some so much so that they would photoshop themselves into photos with Ann. It was quite eerie.

[underpants]

8. a cult of personality

no issues
no real history
just ISN'T HE A GREAT GUY!?!?!?

Their base has been re-educated to think as such