Worst campaign you've been alive for (primary and general)

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McCain for rolling over like a dead dog to Obama.

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McCain for rolling over like a dead dog to Obama.

Anybody else would have been literally destroyed by Obama. Particulary an ultraconservative as you seem liking him.

That's merely opinion for historians to discuss. If we had a real conservative candidate who would have called Obama out on certain issues which came up, things may have changed. McCain was killed by his kindness.

And I'm not an "ultra conservative". I know your using that as a pejorative, I know the games you left wingers play.

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McGovern.  Hands down.

Except McGovern's primary campaign was in fact excellent- he just screwed up the finish. A lot like Dukakis, actually.

Nixon was a shoe in, regardless.

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Again, I'm not a far rightist my frog friend.

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Yes, he just would have to explain peolpe why conservative policies since 1980 caused a catastrophical and useless crusade and an economical crisis due to a blind "laisser-faire" ideology.

Don't know much about the Community Reinvestment Act, do you?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Reinvestment_Act

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Yes, he just would have to explain peolpe why conservative policies since 1980 caused a catastrophical and useless crusade and an economical crisis due to a blind "laisser-faire" ideology. In synthesis, why conservatism ruined America. You're right, nothing more simple !

On that particular count, actually, John McCain had the same problems as a far right Republican would have had. (And Obama hardly represented change, anyhow. )

Only because he chose to compromise himself with the conservative religious right : his pick of Sarah Palin meant exactly that. And it was a dramatic erroc : had McCain not done this, he could have come much more close to Obama. But GOP os today the prisoner of a disastrous strategy, to mobilise an hypothetical "conservative grass roots". It worked once, in 2004, but definiteli disgusted indipendent voters.

Actually that is not true at all. Sarah Palin closed McCain closer to Obama then he was before the pick. The economic collapse in September finished McCain.