The “conservative base” spent months savaging McCain after he won the nomination.
Then many elitist snob “conservative pundits” spent months savaging Palin after her VP selection.
The GOP ate its own this time, and in so doing, elected Barack Obama as my husband’s Commander in Chief.
And McCain’s gamble that Palin would appeal to the Reagan Democrats and moderate female Hillary supporters failed. After months of having the “conservative base” bash him, McCain felt he had to make a bold play for the moderate dems, and I still am shocked that PA and OH Hillary supporters threw their support behind a guy who shows them such obvious and blatant disdain.
Romney would have been the better VP pick in hindsight, since the Reagan Democrats were obviously not in play. Sarah and Todd Palin have blue collar roots and worked their asses off trying to appeal to them in OH and PA, but it didn’t work. For God’s sake, Jack Murtha won in a landslide.
You can’t blame that on John McCain.
