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ORIGINAL: Hillwilliam

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ORIGINAL: rulemylife

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ORIGINAL: Hillwilliam

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ORIGINAL: Jeffff

That's because If John McCain had won, everything would be just peachy now.

I dont know how peachy things would be but I wish he HAD won.

Why?

I think there were better people out there (on both sides) but the powers that be didnt have them running.

2 reasons, I feel he was more qualified than Obama and I feel that after putting up with the hell of the "Hanoi Hilton" nothing a hostile congress could throw at him would affect him much.

There's also the historical fact that the country runs better when Congres and the POTUS are of different parties. 

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ORIGINAL: Hillwilliam

Just an opinion with no facts to back it up here ok........The reason McCain was the RNC's choice to run last election was as follows. They figured with the mood of the country after 8 years of Dubya that the race was unwinnable so "Let's give old John a shot because he's paid his dues then we can regroup for '12"

All of a sudden Obama got the nomination instead of Hillary and it was like "Holy SHIT!!!!!!! we need to get moving so they panicked and went with "Palin the Photogenic". That ended up backfiring when she, in her own words, went rogue.

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ORIGINAL: rulemylife

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ORIGINAL: Hillwilliam

Just an opinion with no facts to back it up here ok........The reason McCain was the RNC's choice to run last election was as follows. They figured with the mood of the country after 8 years of Dubya that the race was unwinnable so "Let's give old John a shot because he's paid his dues then we can regroup for '12"

All of a sudden Obama got the nomination instead of Hillary and it was like "Holy SHIT!!!!!!! we need to get moving so they panicked and went with "Palin the Photogenic". That ended up backfiring when she, in her own words, went rogue.

I agree with the second part but not the first.

This theory has been going around for a while and I've never understood the reasoning behind it.

McCain won the GOP primaries.  He won the votes of the party constituents.  He wasn't just randomly selected to run by the RNC.

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Willbe, if you (personally) are running a 100M race against Usain Bolt, are you going to BLAST out of the blocks and take a chance on ripping a hamstring? So, you take your place and start running because it's expected. Then, 50M into the race, he falls down. You're all of a sudden thinking "HOLY SHIT, I can beat Usain Bolt in the 100M" and you run like hell.

That's an analogy of what happened the last election.

Prob is, if you had blasted out of the blocks and given it your all in the first place, it would have been an easy win.
The RNC was privately conceding and didnt want to "get hurt" in an unwinnable race. You folks claim that the RNC didnt pick McCain, he won the primaries. That is true but NOONE will win a national party primary without the backing of the "Party Leaders" They control too much of the money and anyone that thinks they can win a national or even statewide race without kissing the hand that holds the purse strings is naive.