Comments by "NickTheEnlightened" (@NickTheEnlightened) on "Biden-Sanders Debate Analysis: Biden Did Well Enough to Win March 17th" video.

  1. I disagree with you that McCain would've gotten any closer without Palin on the ticket. While it is true that his pick was pathetic pandering and that most people would pick policy over gender, I actually think Palin made the race closer for McCain than it otherwise would've been, as Palin was an actual conservative on the ticket. Had McCain picked another RINO or even a former Democrat to be his VP pick (McStain admitted later on that at one point he was considering making Joe Lieberman his running mate), I think he would've lost by Goldwater proportions. Fact of the matter is, John McStain was a piece of shit warhawk RINO running off the back of the dreadful Bush years, wanting to continue his warmongering tendencies and also had the misfortune of running when the Great Recession hit. Obama had everything going for him: He played to the identity politics crowd due to him being "the first black president", he promised "hope and change", and he was the beneficiary of the anti-Iraq voters as well as those voters affected severely by the depression. There was no way McCain was gonna beat him, especially with how awful of a candidate he was (though admittedly in an election that took place during the horrible 2nd half of Bush, it would've been difficult for any Republican to win). Palin did not hurt McCain, in fact she prevented him from losing even harder than he otherwise could've.
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  2. The fact that the GOP nominated candidates as pathetic as John McCain and Mitt Romney to face Obama in the first place really showed how awful of a state the party was in back then. Thank God Trump's been slowly but surely reviving it!
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  3. Really hoping Trump will win the white women vote again this year. They're the only group in which I've seen a decent amount leave his camp.
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  4. Exactly. Had McCain not picked Palin, he very well could've suffered a Barry Goldwater or even Alf Landon style loss with how frustrated Americans were with RINO's at the time in the wake of Bush's shitty administration. Palin was the only thing keeping him from losing in historic proportions.
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  5. Especially because rumor has it that McCain originally thought of picking Joe Lieberman. Had he made that move, the 2008 map would've looked a LOT like the 1964 one!
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  6. Exactly. McCain was the worst candidate the GOP could've possibly put up. Granted however, given that Bush was the president at the time and everyone wanted to get away from his nonsense, it would've been difficult for any Republican to win that year.
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  7. Yep. I personally believe that McCain would've done even worse if he had chosen another RINO to be his running mate (or of course an ex-Democrat, as he at one point was considering Joe Lieberman). Palin was really the only factor that motivated conservatives to vote for McCain at all that year.
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