- Posted by Christopher Estep on November 10, 2008
I’ve never understood the need to “buck up” after a defeat. Is there some benefit to pretending that we succeeded when we actually failed miserably?
I just received an email from the McCain ex-campaign that started with:
You should all be incredibly proud.
Oh really? Of what should we be proud of, much less “incredibly” proud? Rick Davis sums it up with:
We fought the good fight.
Bullplop! For John McCain’s campaign manager to claim that they (and by extension, McCain voters) fought a good fight is a lie of Clintonian proportions.
Tell me if these are examples of fighting the “good fight”:
- Having Juan Rodriguez, a pro-Mexico open-borders radical as an advisor. That worked well.
- Denouncing state GOP organizations who dared criticize the statements of Michelle Obama when representing her husband.
- Pretending that Obama’s associations were irrelevant, even when Obama himself said they were.
- Matching Obama handout for handout and calling it an economic plan.
- Allowing the campaign to appear divided over Palin.
- Denouncing every attack on Obama instead of using them.
- Railing against earmarks and then voting for a $700,000,000,000 bailout that is loaded with earmarks.
- Supporting giveaways for any industry that asked.
These aren’t “the good fight”. This is letting your opponent set the agenda. The McCain campaign spent 6 months trying to out-Democrat Obama. That’s not a fight at all.
I’m sorry, but I refuse to be proud of abject failure and redefine it as nobility.