Seriously. Did the Republickans lose on purpose in 2008?

This is my half-baked conspiracy theory:

The Repub's saw the hand-writing on the wall in 2007/2008. The economy was going into the toilet. The next President was obviously going to have a god-awful mess on his or her hands. Why not put forward a half-hearted effort, finish it off with a terrible VP choice, and then just obstruct, obstruct, obstruct.

I think they even had their talking points ready to go. "Socialist" ... "big government" ... "weak on national security" ... yada yada yada.

The only thing they overlooked was the publicity-hungry Palin monster they had created. I think they're plotting right now to get her out of the picture.

I could be wrong. But I like my theory better than the idea that the right-wing morons in Washington might actually be sincere.

It reminds me of when Bob Dole ran...it was his last chance and the GOP gave it to him.

Tom Tancredo? Fred Thompson? Mitt Romney? Huckabee? Sam Brownshirt?

McCain was the only one who really had a shot at the Presidency. Maybe Romney but the Mormon stuff was a turn off. The rest were terrible campaigners (Thompson, Giuliani) and too weird (Tancredo, Huckabee).

I really think they knew how bad things were getting and had no clue how to pull the country out. Now they just can claim it is all the "evil liberals" fault. If they succeed, the way Reagan managed to make the Iran Hostage Crisis Jimmy Carter's fault, the Democratic party will be out for a very long time.

who say's they lost? The DLC New Dems are simply an extension of the GOP. The GOP didn't lose, the people lost.

Like they didn't have a good exit strategy or something... like it wasn't supposed to all fall apart so soon... because then the ignorant RW would have nothing left to say except the new guy did it.

They knew well in advance... they knew the ramifications of their evil deeds when they were done... you're giving them too much credit to say it wasn't until 2007/2008... how about 2002? Wasn't that when BushCo started peddling the "everyone can own a home" bullshit?



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNqQx7sjoS8&feature=related

May 2002... and if you check through the YouTubes, you'll see many that are translated into other languages... the whole world knows more about this than your average RWer.

And all we had running was McCain and Palin, I'd throw the election for sure.

No candidate sets out to lose. The guys and gals running the political parties at various levels -- state, local, national -- always intend to win. Sometimes they may realistically understand that a particular race is unwinnable, and a given candidate for that race may be something of a sacrificial lamb, but trust me, as someone who has run for office, the Republicans did NOT set out to lose in 2008.