Are the Republicans really as dumb as some people think? Makes you wonder when you look at their candidates for the last presidential election, and I am not saying this in a condescending way either. I do not think that this was their initial game plan, but as the economy started to crash, I think their main goal was to actually lose the presidential elections and here is why.
First off I think McCain was the most respectable of all the republican candidates for the Republican Party. I may not agree with him 100% but at least the man has a good record and stands his ground. I do not think the people had it wrong when they chose him over the other republican candidates to run for president.
We all knew way before John McCain announced Sarah Palin that the economy was in trouble, the wars were out of hand, and America was facing severe turmoil with the political division we were seeing in this country. During this time, many republicans had turned their backs on George Bush and were completely disgusted with the way he was handling the country.
I also believe that the last administration knew long before the announcement that the economy was ready to bottom out. So why did John McCain choose Sarah Palin as a running mate for the presidential election? There were so many other options John McCain could of chosen but why on earth did he choose her? I think the Republican Party strategized this so John McCain would of intentionally lost the election in fear of losing more and more voters.
If America was going down because the economy was going to crash, and the 2 wars were basically at a loss with no real exit strategy, why should these 2 things happen on the Republican watch? If anything, why not hand the election over to the Democrats so the economy could crash and the wars could be lost on their watch, so when 2010 and 2012 comes along, they could act like the saviors for the country, gain control of the senate, the house, and the office of the president, when in fact, they caused both problems for this country. We all know how forgetful Americans are and all the Republican Party needed was a scapegoat to once again take control of the government.
To me Sarah Palin was an expandable political figure because she was in fact a nobody at that time and if anything, her political career was nothing in the eyes of the Republican Party so they used this woman to literally lose the presidential election so they could come back a few years later save this country from the failures they set up for the Democratic Party.
Sorry Sarah Palin, you were a tool for your political party, your high hopes were shot all to hell and you didn’t even know it.
