Agreed.  They could have stayed in place and just not spent as much money on advertising, but they had their reasons so...

As for the poll-I had trouble answering that...I couldn't figure out what was the most damaging to the candidate or whether it was the most well-known...?

One of the 24% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 89% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory.

How's that for Clintonesque?

Seriously, though....worst in what way?

If you mean, most damaging politically, I'd have to say McCain's economy is sound comment, he totally blew all of his momentum with that comment and his stupid rush to bail-out manoeuvre.  A close second was Obama's clinging/bitter comment, it showed the primary voters of PA, IIRC, what an elite snob he is, and handed that primary to Hillary.

If you mean worst from a NB standpoint, media bias...I'd say the 57 states comment, because we heard it virtually nowhere other than on the internet.   A total whitewash by the media.

If you mean worst as in stupidest thing to say....my choice isn't even here, and that is Obama who replied that it was above his paygrade to say when he thought life began.  Monster weasel words.  Runner up is Joe Biden's international crisis comment.  The man is clearly too stupid to hold even a very minor security clearance.

Worst personally for the blurter?  I'd say Jesse Jackson...his vicious comment showed the world just how unimportant he truly is, and he has been eclipsed and more than marginalized by Obama.

Amazingly, neither Clinton made my list, although Hillary's "snipper" fire, as I choose to call it, probably torpedoed her Presidential aspirations, or maybe it was her tears. 

I think you left out a big choice -- Obama admitting he is going to "Spread the wealth" to Joe the Plumber. Not only did that one have legs, but it really has put the nation on guard for one of Obama's top priorities -- to socialize the country.

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HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone! I think that the people who are voting are doing so more with their feelings than their intellect. There is only one comment listed above that can be described as the "worse" and that would be not because you didn't like it, but because of it's effect on the speaker! Right now, you guys are voting for Obama's "guns and bitter" comment because it upset you the most. But what effect did it have on Obama's campaign? NONE. He got elected and did so decisively. 

No, my friends the most damaging comment was HILLARY'S sniper fire lark. This ruined her career and threw her presidential aspirations into the toilet. So I must respectfully disagree with the majority although I'd be willing to argue that Obama's bitter comment was perhaps the most "revealing" in a freudian sense, that is. 

But when John McCain suspended his campaign to work on the bail-out.

Even Dick Morris said it cost him the election. 

quote by Obama, would have been my "other" choice. Problem is, the msm never got the significance of it if you wonder if a Muslim would have ever said,"My Christian faith." Ludicrous and suspect at best. Someday we will know one way or the other.

McCain was right when he said that our economy is fundamentally sound, and Gramm was right in his comment, as well.  Those two don't belong on this list, IMO.

and he said we got them right where we want them?

He had my vote

I know pretty much every time Joe Biden opens his mouth, a gaffe of tremendous proportions has the potential to come calling, but I can't believe you didn't include the FDR, TV, 1929 answer he gave to the Perky One!

Stand up Chuck!  Oh....what am I saying!.

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based just on the outrageousness and elitism of the sentiment expressed. But sadly the fact is, that this comment, while revealing what Obama truly believes about a large segment of American society, didn't do him enough real long term damage with the voters.

McCain's 'the economy is fundamentally sound' comment however, did do him real and lasting damage with the voters. Part of that damage was deserved, because it was a very inept and shortsighted comment to make, and part of the damage was due to the incredibly bad timing of the economic meltdown. There was just not enough time for McCain to dig himself out of the hole that he made with that comment. 

One choice I would have liked to have seen on the list  would have been "Dingy Harry's" 'the war is lost' comment. That this idiot would actually publicly say that as senate majority leader, was just reprehensible.   

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First - Republicans nominating RINO McCain

Second - McCain not opposing the bailout

ALL OF THE ABOVE!

To me, Obama's guns and religion comment would have been a political gaffe had he lost the election, he didn't.  Sarah Palin, on the other hand, could have put Katie in her place with an intelligent answer and failed to do so.  Most criticism I've read about the Palin interviews have the Couric interview being the one that stands out against her, not the Gibson one. 

Seems to me, she could have said something like,  "In the age of the internet, I have access to the same newspapers you do and tend, when downtime from governing the State of Alaska permits, to look at them."  She could then have commented on reading the NY Times article they're being sued for, and other traitorous things the Times has written since GWB was elected. 

Anyway, she could have turned a negative into a positive, instead she chose to give the left-wing media fodder for the campaign.  Ironically, those that met her and heard her speeches, understand how Couric and CBS treated her poorly, but the electorate, as a whole, didn't know that.  

Election 2008-God's way of showing us that elections count.  

I think the media abused Hilary about her saying she landed under sniper fire in Bosnia. With all the travelling she did, it's understandable how she could confuse a landing in Bosnia with perhaps a landing in Little Rock.

The worst political gaffe of 08 was the RNC allowing John McCain to be its candidate for president.

So help me G-d (sorry), I'll never forgive Obama for this one. At that point he completely lost any credibility he had with me. That comment is as evil as evil gets and is so snooty and over-the-top liberal that it should have completely disqualified him from even being considered intellectually sound for the top office, and yet my Obamaniac brother had to be convinced that it was a real quote because "there's no way he'd say something that stupid."

I can't believe Obama's "my Muslim faith" gaffe isn't here, though. If only that one had been allowed to take hold, we might have had a completely different result on Election Day. Thanks, MSM.

As for Palin, I'd have said, "Other than the Alaska papers? None. I read real news instead. Want a list? There's a good one at newsbusters.org."