Top 7 Political Blunders of 2008

I was reading this article and I have to agree with their number 1 blunder.


Here’s a man who had spent an entire year telling people that he was a financial conservative, that he wasn’t another George Bush, and that Barack Obama couldn’t handle a crisis.

So, an unpopular bailout comes up for consideration on Capitol Hill and McCain handles the crisis exactly the same way that Obama did, by signing on to George Bush’s $700 billion bailout deal that fiscal conservatives hated with a white hot passion.

In other words, in one fell swoop, John McCain managed to alienate conservatives, prove he really was “another Bush,” and show the American people that Obama could handle a crisis just as well as he could. It was an extraordinary blunder — one that literally may have been the deciding factor in the race for the presidency.


What was worse was when he suspended his campaign in order to go back to Capitol Hill and not do anything other then sit in that meeting with all of the Bailout people and then look serious for the camera. What he should have done is kept above the fray and just let events play out. The bill would have been passed whether he had been there or not. Then he could have just talked about how he would have done things differently if he were President.


Also I think the media parroting that McCain did not know too much about economic matters also hurt him when the crisis was economic. Obama doesn't know much more about the economy but you never had that soundbite of him admitting that. Also McCain not knowing how many houses he had is not such a good idea when people were losing their own houses in record numbers. In any case I think it might be very interestng to see the insiders write books in the next few years once more details of McCains campaign come to light.