huckabee on family/economy

[hi_im_god]

Originally Posted by Danzig

the really sad part is we haven't had a really good candidate in years. look at the last elections, look who's gotten their party's nominations. kerry, gore, bush? mccain...we've had some really bad noms to choose from...

disagree. john mccain in 2008 was probably the best candidate for president i ever didn't vote for. we'd all be better off if he'd been elected in 2000 instead of bush.

Well he used a racist term for the people that held him captive. And the feigned outrage club can't have that.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by hi_im_god

disagree. john mccain in 2008 was probably the best candidate for president i ever didn't vote for. we'd all be better off if he'd been elected in 2000 instead of bush.

i wanted him to get the nom instead of bush back then. but when he finally did get that nom, he blew it with his selection of running mate.

[hi_im_god]

Originally Posted by Danzig

i wanted him to get the nom instead of bush back then. but when he finally did get that nom, he blew it with his selection of running mate.

he would have lost with jesus as his running mate in 2008. it was the economy. obama/palin would have beat mccain/biden.

[Danzig]

perhaps. but i have no doubt if he could do it over, she wouldnt be his choice.

[SCUDSBROTHER]

Originally Posted by Danzig

perhaps. but i have no doubt if he could do it over, she wouldnt be his choice.

That's why he would not of been a good President. The guy always needs do-overs. This is not a brilliant decision maker. He was over 70 years old. His V.P. choice was not of minor importance. He fkd up.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Danzig

perhaps. but i have no doubt if he could do it over, she wouldnt be his choice.

McCain wanted Leibermann, and Liebermann was willing to do it and be vetted. They even figured they could get him through the GOP convention with a walkout only of part of the ultra-con base.

Lindsey Graham (McCain's good friend) inadvertently put the kabosh on that one at a speaking event, leaking that a "pro-choice" candidate could be considered. Remember that public firestorm of speculation on that one? Leib was out.

So a week before the GOP Convention McCain had no VP pick. Palin was an unvetted hail mary "gamechanger" attempt to suck up the base.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by hi_im_god

disagree. john mccain in 2008 was probably the best candidate for president i ever didn't vote for. we'd all be better off if he'd been elected in 2000 instead of bush.

I agree with that. McCain started to blow it in 2008 during the trip back to Washington in the "crisis" (where he "canceled the debate", but ended up doing nothing in Washington, and Obama looked presidential). He was a different man by 2008, though - cranky, old, burnt-out, didn't seem like he really wanted to run.

I was voting McCain all the way up to three days after Palin was announced as the VP pick. By then the horror was too much.