The wife accidentally hit me about 3 hours ago waking me up. Unfortunately I stayed up, but that means Morning Joe and I got the chance to see the start of the show. Since I’m typing as they are speaking quotes may not be exact.
Chuck Todd is on and just pointed out that moderates and independents voted for Obama in droves even though the candidate was John McCain.
This is John McCain who is supposed to be Mr Moderate
Joe Scarborough gets it:
Republican Moderates usually do poorly Republican true believers tend to do well.
Pat questions Todd pointing out that when he selected Palin he was up for a while until the market crashed and killed him.
(all this sounds like Rush Limbaugh so far)
Todd however is blaming a bad Obama campaign rather than the Palin pick.
Here is the actual answer. Obama didn’t run a great campaign against McCain, the media ran a great campaign for Obama. Obama was and in my opinion is a rookie pitcher from a corrupt machine with a lot of questionable associations but the media decided he was the next JFK and the cure to all that was wrong with race in America. They didn’t want anything in the way of the history they were making.
As far as McCain goes rallied conservatives with Palin and could have won this campaign but his position on the bailout murdered him and kept conservatives home. The media did and still hates Palin for what she is, an actual living example of conservative values who doesn’t give a damn what they think. So they did their best to destroy her.
Limbaugh was absolutely right about this one but as always we got the government we deserve, and we have 4 years to see if it was the right move.
Update: Morning Joe would be so much better if Andrea Mitchell wasn’t on it. Unlike the others on the show she still pretends that she is a reporter and not an advocate but you can’t teach an old dog new tricks.
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