Republicans lost election by default

Dear Editor:

A majority of the people of Vernon County and of the State of Missouri voted the McCain/Palin ticket in the election of 2008. This may have been the very first election in history that Missouri did not vote with the winner. Many Republicans are still bewildered as to why the election was lost to a candidate associated with the far left wing of the Democratic Party and considered the most liberal Senator in the U.S. Senate. The following points outline why the Republicans went down to defeat in the election of 2008.

1) Those who manage elections behind the scenes (Money-tycoons and master News Media Guru's) did not want the McCain/Palin ticket to win in 2008. Recall that McCain was way behind in money and media coverage throughout the campaign. Moreover, the liberal racists were clamoring to elect a black president.

2) The evangelical coalition in the United States was extremely disillusioned by the Republican president and Congress in the election of 2000 and 2004. They felt betrayed and lost all faith in the political process! Many of them did not vote and many voted for Ron Paul, Chuck Baldwin, Ralph Nadar, and even Obama.

3) McCain was a Democrat running as a neocon conservative. Remember, McCain teamed up with Feingold in election reform and with Kennedy in granting amnesty for millions of illegal aliens. John Kerry even considered McCain as a potential running mate on the Democratic ticket in 2004!

4) McCain would not take the gloves off and go after his opponent. He placed Jeremiah Wright, the Black Liberation theologian off limits during the campaign. He refused to touch his opponent's natural born citizen status, or bear down on his long list of Marxist friends.

5) McCain and his handlers/managers muzzled Palin and would not allow her to speak her mind and heart felt convictions to the American public during the campaign.

6) McCain voted for the 750 billion dollar bail out for the fat cat Wall Street bankers, proving he was not really a political maverick. He failed to stand up to the money barons, send those guilty of wrong doing to prison, and fight for the people, and in so doing lost a golden opportunity to win the hearts of the American people as a real reformer.

7) McCain failed to capitalize on the hot button issues of abortion, the status of illegal aliens, gun control, and same-sex marriage. These critical issues were barely mentioned in the campaign and his opponent sailed uncontested throughout the campaign without the general public knowing that he was a very strong supporter of abortion, gun controls, amnesty for millions of Latinos, and comfortable with those clamoring for same-sex marriage.

8) McCain really failed to articulate his message on no tax increases, he was weak in communicating his health program, and made a major mistake in not announcing at least a two year moratorium on all capitol gains taxes.

9) McCain failed to commit and convince Americans that he would close the border to the Mexican invasion, cut off all medical, educational, and government welfare to illegal immigrants, and impose heavy fines and jail sentences on American employers who hire these illegals.

10) McCain did not really get fired up in the first two debates, he was lackluster on the campaign trail until the final closing days, and was not a very effective communicator. As a liberal running as a neocon he simply was not a good actor and failed to sell himself. Republicans lost the election by default! They failed to field a real conservative candidate that could place before the nation a plan of victory that would overcome the spiritual apathy, moral decadence, political paralysis, third world invasion, and economic meltdown that a Republican president and Congress has presided over since 2000, and the Democratic Party before that. Both political parties have failed the American electorate in a major way. The same old worn out policies of both parties piled higher and deeper are what America can anticipate. Americans with wealth can anticipate their hard earned money to be spread around Marxist style.

Dan Gayman

Schell City