Worst Campaign Ever?

As a news reporter, I am ashamed of the lack of objectivity shown by both broadcast and print journalism during this election. Everyone's an editorialist now? If it weren't for me telling him, my 8-year-old would never know that "the news" is supposed to report the facts, not give their opinions or show favoritism.

Jim Herring, With respect to your views about McCain selecting Palin being a positive, I think the saying "if you like this sort of thing, then you'll find this the sort of thing you like" really hits the nail on those who supported her on the ticket. As in, if Palin and her views spoke to you, then you were going to love her as a politician. But you do have to take into consideration the way that she came across to the many American's who felt she was inexperienced, not yet ready for the job, and that she didn't relate to their lives in many ways.

Maybe if I had seen her in person I would have felt differently, but I think it is telling that one of the few moments where I actually liked her was during her brief scripted appearance on SNL. And, as Zelizer writes in this article, the fact that McCain had selected her at the last minute after only meeting her twice before didn't help my opinion of McCain in that this seemed like a transparent "political move" (rather than "Country First"). Zelizer is also dead on when he talks about how this first impression set the cynical tone of how I as a voter looked at anything else that would come out of their campaign. At that point, every stunt, every attack move, and every "zinger line??? just reaffirmed my opinion of McCain not being the better of the two candidates to be straight forward and help move our Country in a better direction; I just saw him as someone who would do anything to win the election.

The true problem is that the Republican's tried to serve only their far right constituents, when most of the country lies in the middle. Senator McCain is a good man, he should have done better in the election. Once Sara Palin became involved, with her far right agenda, McCain was done.

The Bush 41 re-electrion campaign was the worst I ever saw. But McCain did apretty lousy job. After choosing a grand running mate that took the wind out of the Dems sails, McCain receded into her shadow. The Democrats served up plenty of ripe opportunities to go for the jugular; but the public will not suffer the timid. Truely, McCain should have realized he was over the hill and let others seek the office instead. Th elure is too much and he got his just desert.

I actually liked McCain. The only problem that I had against him was Palin & Bush.

Through this article, Mr. Zelizer proves one of the points conservatives have been making for a while. He is probably teaching all this gobblydeegook to the students at Prnnceton too. The choice of Sarah Palin was a brilliant move on the part of the McCain campaign. One has only to look at the numbers of people who showed up at her rallies (I was at one in Va with 25,000 people) to see that, as well as his poll numbers (before the economic turn). The "negative" campaign began with Mr. Obama's thrashing with Hillary Clinton in the primaries and continued on through his next opponent. With his consistent jabs at President Bush, Obama even slug mud at those not even in the race. The #1 problem with McCain was quite superficial, he had little charisma, yet another element Palin brough to the ticket. The #2 issue was the economy. McCain would have won this election had he voted against the bailout and used that issue to show his independence and belief in listening to voters. The #3 issue was failing to educate the American public on the leftist, liberal record of Obama and his cronies Pelosi, Reid, Barney Frank, Ted Kennedy, etc. This was a HUGE tactical blunder to spend all that money and time on Bill Ayers, someone most of us knew little about before the McCain ads. Hats off to the McCain-Palin ticket who almost pulled it off, in spite of 90% of the media leaning left and biased "reporting" of media shams like MSNBC, NBC, Time and, yes Newsweek. I did not vote Obama yet will now support the will of the American people and President-elect Obama, and pray for him and our country and it's leaders on a daily basis. I encourage all to do the same. God Bles America.

Good Bye and Good Riddance to the Good Ole Boys!

I think Bush 41 re-election run was the worst by far that I ever seen; it was as if he didn't want to be President. He got what I thought he was after. McCain made a great choice for running mate and she over shadowed him. McCain just never gave a fire branding speach and the Democrats served up plenty of opportunities that were wasted. McCain should have had the decency not to run in the first place. He got his just deserts.

The media has missed their opportunity to report on the historical fact that TWO women campaigned for the two highest positions in the US. Senator Hillary Clinton and Govennor Sarah Palin placed themselves at the mercy of the American public and asked America to consider them for President and Vice President of the United States of America.To my disappointment, the entertainment media and news media chose to violate these wonderful role models' human rights and instead of placing a veil over their faces to humiliate, silence and intimidate, theychose the method of broadcasting their faces on tv and insulting them, humilitating them, and abusing them both mentally and emotionally for all to see. Our nation may have come a long way in electing a black MALE president, but we missed a great opportunity to "walk the walk" of displaying women's human rights to the world.

I was tuly surprised, more like amaxed, to check Fox news and see the video featuring O'reilly and Cameron (Fox News senior political commentator) outlining the real feeling about Sarah Palin within the McCain Palin campaign. I didn't believe Fox would be willing to feature such a video. After viewing it I don't believe the republican party would ever consider Sarah Palin as a possible presidential candidate in the future. I feel if the republican party wants to win in the future they will need to become a little less right wing to appeal to more moderate voters.