Why did the RNC force Palin onto McCain?

Question

In an open election McCain won the primary against some conservative opponents. The voters did not support the conservative right wing candidates of the party. With apparent opposition within the party to conservatives, why did the RNC disallow McCain from choosing his #1 choice, Lieberman, and put an unwanted conservative on the ballot. By the way I am a Goldwater Conservative and do not consider the current NeoCons to be conservatives at all.

Answer 1

It's a mystery. I think you can write McCain off as another conservative hijacked by the neo-con money & glitz. The only good thing I can say about Palin is that she knows how to work the camera (She's been a tv weather girl or something in her youth). Otherwise, her conduct in office, policies, family life, reveals that she's pure trash. A nouveau social climber with vulgar ambitions and a dangerously empty head - a nouveau neo-con :). It's a word I do not use lightly and very, very rarely (Only twice in my life I've described a person by this epithet) - but for this woman it is completely fitting: Trash.

Ambitious individuals should be applauded, but I find myself thinking that if this religiously fundamentalist person ever got in a position of influence, America's kids will become the most ignorant people in the world.

I'm not an Obama supporter, so save it.  

Answer 2

Truth is, they all do what they have to do and say what they have to say to get elected, even Obama. Once they do, then they do whatever the h**l they want.

Answer 3

The current NeoCons are not conservatives, but to answer your question the RNC didn't have a say in the process! Great choice by McCain!

Answer 4

Because they own the party and despise Democracy

The Palin selection demonstrates once again the dirty secret of American politics: that semi-fascistic forces exercise near-veto power over the Republican Party. The New York Times reported Sunday, based on interviews with several top McCain aides, that McCain had all but decided to select Senator Joseph Lieberman, who was the Democratic vice-presidential candidate in 2000, to run with him on a cross-party ticket based on all-out support for the war in Iraq.

Top aides told him—reportedly relaying warnings from several influential state party chairmen—that there would be protests on the floor of the convention if he selected a running mate who supports abortion rights, like Lieberman or former Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge (a Republican).

McCain made the decision after his Democratic opponent, Barack Obama, chose Senator Joseph Biden of Delaware as his running mate August 23, passing over Hillary Clinton. The next day, McCain called Palin and invited her to meet at his Arizona estate on Thursday, where he offered her the second spot on the Republican ticket.

There is a strong element of recklessness and irresponsibility in McCain’s selection. He selected not only someone without any significant national or international experience, but someone whom he does not himself know and who is virtually unknown to the American public.

McCain had precisely one discussion with Palin this year, for 15 minutes at a conference in Washington last February, before calling her last week. His encounter with her Thursday, when he offered her the second highest position in the American government, amounted to two hours. Press accounts noted that their initial campaign bus trip—a six-hour swing from Dayton through Columbus to the outskirts of Pittsburgh—more than doubled the total time they had spent together.

With barely a year and a half in office as the governor of the country’s least populous state, Palin had been generally ruled out as a potential nominee. She herself told the Washington Post earlier this year that her selection was an “impossibility.”

The prospect of Palin, who has no experience and no known views on any foreign policy issues—or, for that matter, on most domestic ones—taking the helm as president may give pause to significant layers within the ruling establishment itself.

Answer 5

McCain made the final decision

Answer 6

Because McCain had a run in with the Protestant Pope, the now-deceased Jerry Falwell (recall when McCain said Falwell was part of the problem?), he really had to pick a fundy.  No mere Senator has the power of the religious right with the RNC.

Answer 7

It appears that the Republican Party does not want this election. They want to distance themselves from the economic woes, the war against a concept and NOT against a government, and the Republicans can't get out of the new Liberal umbrella that they created. It's best to give it to the Dems, then return in 4 years as Americas only savior.

Answer 8

I think you make a very good point. Apparently he wanted Lieberman, but was put under pressure to elect someone who is off the charts nuts on social issues to rally the conservative base.

Answer 9

Republicans don't believe in democracy. Look at Bush.

It just goes to show you that McCain is a puppet to the GOP.

They believe everyone who doesn't practice Christianity are evil, and forget we live in a country that has a lot of different races, religons, and good people with different opinion.

They love war and corruption and power, but hate diplomicy, free opinion, goverment that works for everybody

Who do you think will run the white house if he wins?