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How John McCain Lost

By Robert Stacy McCain on 10.7.08 @ 12:08AM

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The acknowledgement of reality is not a panic. And the attempt of some Republicans to encourage miracle comeback fantasies serves only to distract conservatives from the task ahead.

It was McCain's outspoken support for the unpopular bailout -- a big-government intervention incompatible with conservative economic philosophy -- that handed the election to Obama. The bailout failed as politics and, as evidenced by Monday's selloff on Wall Street, it also failed as policy.

Democrats are already rushing to promote Obama's coming victory as a mandate for their "progressive" agenda. Conservatives need to begin telling the true story of McCain's defeat, which must be admitted before it can be explained.

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Letter to the Editor

topics:
John McCain, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Sarah Palin, NATO, Immigration

Robert Stacy McCain is co-author (with Lynn Vincent) of Donkey Cons: Sex, Crime, and Corruption in the Democratic Party (Nelson Current). He blogs at The Other McCain.

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