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Not a Sore Loser, Just a Loser

By Robert Stacy McCain on 11.8.08 @ 10:35PM

McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt explains that it's not his fault:

The moment that I will look back at as the moment deep in my gut that I knew, was September 29, when I was flying on a plane with Governor Palin to Sedona for debate prep, watching the split screen on the TVs . . . and it showed the stock market down seven, eight hundred points; it showed the Congress voting down the bailout package on the other side, and then, House Republicans went out and told the world that the reason that they voted against this legislation, allowed the stock market to crash, allowed the economy to be so injured, was because Nancy Pelosi had given a mean and partisan speech on the floor. And this was their response. And I just viewed it as beyond devastating, and thought that at that moment running with an "R" next to your name, in this year, was probably lethal.

Got that? House Republicans "allowed the stock market to crash," and that's why John McCain lost, rather than because of Schmidt's insistence on Sept. 24 that the candidate suspend the campaign, call for a postponement of the debate, and fly to Washington to push for the unpopular $700 billion bailout. Classic.

View all comments (13) | Leave a comment

Joseph | 11.8.08 @ 10:42PM

Amateur hour, that's all.

Ben Boychuk| 11.8.08 @ 11:25PM

Steve Schmidt is the Kimbo Slice of political consultants: No talent, overhyped, and falls down easily.

Captain America| 11.8.08 @ 11:31PM

Where does our Country find such defeatists? The bailout bill was voted down by both democrats and republicans, yet this idiot blames the republicans who are not in control of Congress.

M. Tobias| 11.9.08 @ 12:28AM

The finger pointing has only just begun. No one, not even the candidate, is going to take responsibility for this loss. So just ignore it all. Nominate and run conservatives and you'll win. Otherwise, you lose.

ruth| 11.9.08 @ 1:09AM

Remember the McCain debacle of 2008 when they try to ram moderates down our throat next time.

Jilly| 11.9.08 @ 2:03AM

I'd sure like to be able to vote in a Republican primary here on the west coast one of these days. And maybe only Republicans should be allowed to vote. - anyone think that the Democrats had their own Operation Chaos?

Tom| 11.9.08 @ 2:11AM

That $700 billion was so critical to avoiding an immediate depession that now, a month later, Pelosi and Reid want to throw $50 billion of it down the Big Three/UAW rathole.

Jane| 11.9.08 @ 2:16AM

This man is so burning his bridges. First he's connected with the sliming of Palin, and now he's bashing the House Republicans. Who would be stupid enough to hire him as a consultant after this?

ruth| 11.9.08 @ 2:21AM

Jilly, Rush started Operation Chaos because he was sick of the democrats crossing over in the early primaries and choosing our candidate. Democrats have been doing this for a long time and he was infuriated by it.

DJ| 11.9.08 @ 7:46AM

Rush started operation chaos to sell T shirts

ruth| 11.9.08 @ 5:19PM

Rush doesn't need money fromT shirt sales. He was pissed.

J David| 11.10.08 @ 7:38AM

We send "REPRESENTATIVES" to Congress to REPRESENT us!!! When 75% of ALL the people, calling in phonebank-melting numbers, say they do not want socialism established in a "Bail-Out Bill", it is the politicians' JOB (commie-lib Dems and RINOs) to vote the wickedness DOWN!!!

Oh, and flaming RETARDS who don't listen to Rush, and only take talking points and marching orders from HuffPo and DKos shouldn't go around libeling defenders of freedom like Rush.