What went wrong with this US election?
Why did McCain lose? I suppose I have an answer or two:
While he is certainly a very decent, honorable man, much more so than Ariel Sharon, who ended his career in disaster by resorting to de-facto sadism and corruption, the problem is that, McCain was still too old, not unlike Bob Dole, who was around 70 when he ran for president in 1996.
Another is that his positions were too liberal and may have likely alienated more than a few conservatives, who might not have even voted in the end. See what Byron York has to say to get an idea of what went wrong.
And, on NRO's The Corner, Mark Levin says that:
Even Dubya's own blundering may have had what to do with the loss, as John Derbyshire explains. And even at the end of his career, he appears to be finishing on a sour note: you think Britain's got problems with Shari'a banking? Frank Gaffney at the Wash. Times (via Melanie Phillips) reports that Dubya's treasury is about to open the doors to Shari'a banking being imposed upon America's own system. Is it any wonder that the Republicans may have lost some respect from their base? Someday, those who supported Bush are going to have to start asking serious questions about just how worthy it was to do so.
Despite the loss to Obama, it turns out it was not a landslide, nor did the youth vote amount to much either. What does that signal? Simply, that the abandonment of conservative values alienated quite a bit of the GOP voters. And that's something that conservatives are going to have work very hard to repair. As Michelle Malkin says, we're going to have to work very hard now at opposing whatever tyrannical legislative proposals the left intends to bring forth, including the "fairness doctrine". And the GOP are going to have to start communicating with the base up front and listen to what they want, if they ever expect to regain better influence.
Update: more from Tom DeLay.
While he is certainly a very decent, honorable man, much more so than Ariel Sharon, who ended his career in disaster by resorting to de-facto sadism and corruption, the problem is that, McCain was still too old, not unlike Bob Dole, who was around 70 when he ran for president in 1996.
Another is that his positions were too liberal and may have likely alienated more than a few conservatives, who might not have even voted in the end. See what Byron York has to say to get an idea of what went wrong.
And, on NRO's The Corner, Mark Levin says that:
...it could be argued that John McCain's nomination, given birth in Mark [Steyn]'s New Hampshire, had more to do with independents and Democrats. Not until after Florida was he able to garner significant Republican numbers, with some exceptions. But the party suffers from much neglect and misdirection. And the nominee is a good man, a great man in many ways, but a flawed candidate. And we conservatives do need to work things out, and we will. In fact, we must. We face a juggernaut.We all do. Even here in Israel. The American Thinker says that:
First, the Republican Party needs to relentlessly reform its state electoral rules to ensure that those voters choosing the Republican candidate are genuine Republicans who have the best interests of the Republican Party at heart. This self-evident corrective of course should have been completed by early 2001. It wasn't, so here we are, with a self-admittedly weak-on-economics candidate trying to talk his way through a financial meltdown. It has been pathetic.Yep, it has.
Even Dubya's own blundering may have had what to do with the loss, as John Derbyshire explains. And even at the end of his career, he appears to be finishing on a sour note: you think Britain's got problems with Shari'a banking? Frank Gaffney at the Wash. Times (via Melanie Phillips) reports that Dubya's treasury is about to open the doors to Shari'a banking being imposed upon America's own system. Is it any wonder that the Republicans may have lost some respect from their base? Someday, those who supported Bush are going to have to start asking serious questions about just how worthy it was to do so.
Despite the loss to Obama, it turns out it was not a landslide, nor did the youth vote amount to much either. What does that signal? Simply, that the abandonment of conservative values alienated quite a bit of the GOP voters. And that's something that conservatives are going to have work very hard to repair. As Michelle Malkin says, we're going to have to work very hard now at opposing whatever tyrannical legislative proposals the left intends to bring forth, including the "fairness doctrine". And the GOP are going to have to start communicating with the base up front and listen to what they want, if they ever expect to regain better influence.
Update: more from Tom DeLay.
Labels: islam, political corruption, United States
