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"You guys". I'm a Californian Republican, so stop acting like I'm anything else. I never said Obama couldn't be beaten, I said Perry wasn't the man that could do it. Why? Because he's a complete goof. I agree, it's too early in the election season to call any absolutes, whatsoever, especially ones based on polls or any of the likes.
All I said was that he is incompetent, and unless he miraculously becomes somewhat electable he will lose based on that incompetence. No matter what you may personally think, Obama's approval ratings are not dismal and he has had many successes during his Presidency. A guy like Perry would tank in the election, even if he could somehow squeezed through the primaries
If the Republican Party nominates Perry, 2012 will be a slaughter year
I don't know what else to say besides the fact that your continued notion that Perry is unelectable in a general election is completely unfounded and seems to be rooted in philosophical dislike for the man as opposed to any polling data or anything at all concrete.
Palin was a mistake. She added "energy" for a while, and pushed numbers up for a couple of months(hence my phrase "short-term fix") but as time wore on it was clear she was prone to many gaffes and was very silly and inexperienced. McCain's strategy aimed at latching on to Bush supporters, which turned out to be the wrong approach since by the time the election came around Bush virtually had no supporters. McCain should've run like he did in 2000, a Maverick. IF he had taken the risk of being outspoken AGAINST certain failed Bush policies and distanced himself from Bush, there wouldn't have been the "McSame" campaign.
The horrible Bush ratings MAY not have transferred over to the McCain camp like they inevitably did in '08
Once again I disagree. McCain did everything he could to distance himself from President Bush. He did not move to the right except when he gave the nod to Governor Palin, which resulted in a huge surge in the polls. The "McSame" campaign was launched because democrat operatives, and rightly so, believed that it would be a good political move to paint McCain with the same brush as Bush despite the fact that they were two vastly different candidates.