The One ascends; McCain concedes
Well, it’s official. Barack Obama has been elected President of the United States. Fox and NBC have called the race.
It’s a historic moment.
Congratulations.
Here’s my promise to you: As long as I can still publish a blog and speak my mind openly about the next denizen of the White House, I will.
First order of business: He can now change the “0″ to a “1.”
Second order of business: Will he bring the Greek columns out for Inauguration Day?
Commenter Valiant: “Third order of business: De-brand the GOP of McCain and the idea that we need a RINO because ‘he can win.’ Never again.”
***
11:26pm Eastern. McCain concedes: “I will not spend a moment regretting for a moment what might have been.” Mention of Sarah Palin gets the loudest applause.
11:43pm Eastern. A few general notes on tonight’s outcome:
*Obama’s popular vote total is a lot smaller than most polls showed.
*The Senate GOP massacre was not as bad as expected. Still waiting on Minnesota and Oregon and a few others.
*The ballot initiatives are a bellwether. Gay marriage and racial preferences are electoral losers. (Update: Nebraska civil rights initiative passes; too close to call in Colorado.)
*Pandering on amnesty did not help McCain. In California, McCain won a whopping 16 percent of the Latino vote. (Update: now 21 percent.) By comparison, Pete Wilson managed 23 percent of the Hispanic vote in 1994 (the same year the much-loathed Prop. 187 passed).
Democrats won the White House, but they do not have an unfettered mandate for left-wing policies across the board.
Republicans need to learn from their losses. First step: Don’t put the same old, same old capitulationists and re-branding pimps in leadership positions.
You know the definition of insanity: Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
***
President Bush congratulates Obama: “Awesome.”
12:01am Eastern. Obama is giving his victory speech in front of more American flags than ever. Congratulates McCain and Palin.
Oh, man. He just thanked The Vice President-Elect of the United States, Joe Biden, and The Nation’s Next First Lady, Michelle Obama.
Oh, man.
He thanks his daughters (who will get a new puppy) and his other family members.
Thanks David Plouffe and David Axelrod.
“The challenges that tomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetime.” Here we go: mortgages, college education, saving the planet. “Our climb will be steep.”
But don’t worry, Peggy, you’ll get your gas and bills paid!
12:11am Eastern. Obama addresses opponents: “I will be your president, too.” Then he turns to his real constitutency: Citizens of the World. “There’s a new dawn in America.”
Fidel Castro applauds.
Obama’s now leading a creepy, cult-ish “Yes, We Can” call and refrain.
Obama declares it the new national creed.
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Last word to Bill Whittle, who puts things in proper perspective, as always.
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OK to add more insult to injury, my county, that’s been a red county FOREVER, went blue in this election.
Wonderful. I’m surrounded by libtards now. That explains all the McCain/Palin signs disappearing overnight.
Ugh, time to move. Utah’s looking pretty good just about now. Maybe Idaho.
So now that Obama has won, can we now finally rid ourselves of Affirmative Action?
emjem24 and tuffy, please don’t generalize in a moment of hurt and anger. The vast majority of Americans do appreciate and care for our defenders of freedom.
This whole election from the primary to tonite was a farce, bought and paid for by left wing activists and power hungry, traitorous G.Soros, and his kind, may they rot in hell.
I will give Barack Hussein Obama as much respect as liberals gave Bush.
ZERO.
He will never be my president. Period.
I believe he stole the election, with the help of the MSM, ACORN, and fraudulent foreign donations.
It’s official.
THE WESTERN HALF OF THE UNITED STATES DOESN’T COUNT!!!
I am pissed. Absolutely and profoundly pissed off that McCain conceded so early. I don’t care what the projections were for those rasafracking solid gold swing states — HE SHOULD NOT HAVE CONCEDED until all the votes were counted — until every state had chimed in.
We have FIFTY STATES. Last I checked, FIFTY STATES were supposed to make this decision, not a measly few back east.
I’m tired of being ignored in national elections because I live on the west coast!!!
This is how we got screwed in the primaries and ended up with McCain. I never even got to vote for the candidate I really wanted in the primary because he and every other republican candidate had already given up. I’m sick of these people!!
Tomorrow morning when we know what the final numbers are (or very close to final), even a proven landslide victory by Obama will not change my mind that I’ve been screwed tonight by McCain, the whole republican party, the MSM and the whole sordid debacle of nationally broadcast coverage of polls that close at different times and those MSM a**holes telling us who’s won before people out here are finished voting.
Plenty of people keep repeating “every vote counts.” No, not according to what happened tonight. Mister-it-ain’t over-till-it’s-over didn’t just concede the election, he conceded that my vote and millions of others meant nothing. Nada. Zip. Zilch.
Okay. Fine. Next election cycle you can just take your stinking campaign to Ohio and Pennsylvania and Virginia or wherever those precious few swing states happen to pop up in 1012 — and then just leave us no-account western states the hell alone. No campaign ads, no lies and counter-lies, no yard signs, no crappy campaign schtick at all! And what a relief thta would be.
I mean, if you’re gonna ignore us and act like we don’t count, the least we can get in exchange would be some relief from
“Ron Paul in 2012 – he’s the only one who gets it.”
While some of his ideas are interesting he has the persona of a escaped-from-the-basement crazy uncle and has much a chance of ever being POTUS as Ralph Nader.
(CONT.)
. . . a seemingly endless two year campaign.
Now that would be refreshing. and I wouldn’t feel as cheated as I have been tonight.
My wife’s only got a couple years left on active duty. She’s going to hate getting a retirement certificate with his name on it! I don’t think we can stick it out to 2013.
Sure. We’ll replace it with Reparations.
Thanks for giving us Obama, jerk.
On November 5th, 2008 at 12:15 am, davidjamesduprey said:
For those with eyes to see, Barack was saying the same thing back in March: Obama Nation: Using Racism In Order To Form A More Socialist Union
Yes. But our last line of defense is the case before the U.S. Supreme Court. If Obama is forced to prove that he is a Natural Born Citizen, and can’t, then I think the whole Obama/Biden ticket should be thrown out as a fraud (i.e., don’t just elevate Biden to the Presidency)
If Obama takes office in January, he will start working to take us from Stage 3 (Crisis) to Stage 4 (Communist Normalization). Destroyed From Within: The Four Stages of Ideological Subversion
I’m watching Fox right now and they have a video of students from george washington university.
It’s a bunch of white kids screaming and singing yes we can, yes we can. They don’t even know what the hell “change” means or yes we can means…Yes we can…what??
Spoiled Rich White Kids. Never had to work a day in their life, everything taken care of for them at all times.
I’m so sad right now. Mccain was not my candidate but he was better than dopey.
Oh, perfect.
I type too fast ’cause I’m angry and hit the submit button by mistake. I continue my post — and the second half ends up split from the first half between the hundreds.
Oh, brother.
I believe where we disagree, Bill, is regarding the “Big Tent” concept – i.e. it doesn’t matter what a person stands for as long as they agree to sometimes being associated with a letter.
I think thats the core issue of our bone-picking here: I believe that when something “means everything”, then that something actually means nothing.
How ironic that this “change” has left me with no “hope.”
Sure. Goodnight.
Well, if the Democrats get the DoD budget cuts that they’ve been proposing, your wife may not get a chance to stick it out…
I feel the same way about the West Coast. We haven’t mattered in many, may years, and again, same with the Primaries…everyone was gone by the time they got out here to Calif.
They called it for Obama before the polls here were even closed. I voted at 4:30 PM and was already thinking that it was probably over.
Hope Prop. 8 does well and that my county remains Red.
Obama was born to a Muslim man, and a woman who would only marry Muslims during her life, and attended Friday prayers in Indonesia with his step-father.
He was a Muslim. He is an apostate now, and as most of his mentors are atheist Marxists, he probably is one as well. Joining Wright’s church was probably a political calculation, and if he is a Christian in any sense, it is a twisted version based on African identity, with the real Israelites being Black, and Jesus being tormented by “big nosed Italians”.
As an apostate, he is technically eligible to be fatwa’d and killed, but he has shared the Far Lefts extreme sympathy with Palestinians in particular and Muslims in general, and any imam who would issue such a fatwa would be ordering the death of the greatest friend and appeaser the Muslim world and radical Islam could ever hope to have in the White House.
This is how Conservatism becomes concentrated and strong, starting a new movement with the seed of old well proven principles.
Never again can we afford to compromise, never again can we stray from our ideology, principles or shy away from loudly speaking out and articulating the differences.
If we promote a party of law and order we can’t just talk the talk, Americans may tolerate immorality from an immoral party but they have zero tolerance for immorality from a right versus wrong party.
America is still a center right nation, Conservatives can’t straddle a splintered fence and hope to hold a shred of credibility.
The road map is very clear, all it takes is a strong unwavering belief in ourselves.
Lets go for it.
Exactly. And he also won with the help of the “purists” here who wouldn’t deign to vote for a moderate and therefore put a radical in the White House.
When Obama the Fraud raises our taxes and signs FOCA, I’m going to stop paying taxes. I don’t care if they imprison me. If enough brave people do the same, they will have to jail us all.
I don’t expect many here will join. You’ll all be too busy complaining whether or not the next candidate is “conservative” enough.
we’re screwed.
the media convinced the uneducated masses to vote for socialism.
I work in Missile Defense. I know where some of the cuts are coming. I’m updating my resume as we speak.
emjem24, tuffy and other military spouses here and everywhere, let me thank you all for your sacrifices, yours and your spouses.
The fight is not over, don’t quit now. The only bright spot of the nite is the dems will not have a filibuster proof senate.
No more “new tone in Washington”, the course for the Republican senators in the next 4 yrs should be obstruct, obstruct and obstruct, just as the dems have always done. We need to rework the Republican Party from bottom up or build a new one and improved version.
So Michelle Malkin thinks McCain’s “pandering” on illegal immigrants didn’t work. What didn’t work was the histrionic “shamnesty” screams from those like Michelle. What kind of deal are we going to get now? Hmmmmm. We’re going to get nothing. Thanks, Michelle.
McCain paid the price in losing Latino votes even though he didn’t deserve to because he’s a Republican and the demagogues on this issue are Republicans. The “If I don’t get everything I want right now I’m taking my ball and going home” suicide squad of republicans will wind up with nothing done to halt illegal immigration. Way to go!
My bad. I was projecting.
My son fits into GenY and I was reacting to what he related from his friends tonight. He and they voted, (in what numbers I cant say) but it was primarily uneducated votes for Obama.
I cant say much though. I remember being very young in school and was excited that Carter won too.
On November 5th, 2008 at 12:17 am, Send_Me said:
Sorry, your judgment has been proven to be completely f-ed up and I am past Sunday school age.
Better to have Kerry and Gore…
Yeah… those 3 votes he has so far could turn around any moment into a Keyes landslide that will usher in a new era of peace and prosperity.. Yeah… Thank you for flushing your vote on a blow hard who already lost to Obama in Illinois.
“Goodness”. Well, instead we got Obama who will try to destroy the country.
He would have given us a fighting chance.
We could have fought it. I outlined how. Even our hostess acknowledged that it will be tougher to stop with Obama. You are probably going to get it because there is no one left to stop it.
Wait until you get wealth distribution due to racial preference.
He said he would use Alito and Roberts as his role model. Look, we have been through this over and over, you idiot. You really are worse then a liberal. They don’t allow themselves to hear what they don’t want to hear either but at least they believe in Obamas socialist utopia BS. You just vote for it by default.
Yeah, you are thinking in the long term… You sanctimonious, rationalizing moron. You have effectively voted for huge entitlement programs which, once created have never been taken away. You have voted for the end of secret ballots for union organizers who can now effectively shanghai workers in to unions and take a percentage of their salary to elect more democrats. You have voted for capitulation in Iraq and appeasement in the war against the islamist scumbags that attacked us. You have voted for pain for the country to teach it a lesson instead of work for yourself to keep it on the right track and, just like a liberal, you have rationalized it as doing the morally superior thing. Thanks for the lecture on Gods last name, but I am tempted to verify that it isn’t dammit because you are so screwed up.
On November 5th, 2008 at 12:21 am, inspiredhome said:
The purpose of “Bob the Builder” is to imprint the Communist Revolutionary chant of “Yes, we can!” into the brains of the next generation of voters.
Think about it…which came first, the chant or the show?
(the chant came first)
I’ll wipe the slate clean and give him a chance to lead from the middle like I kept hearing about.
I only hope President Obama will dissapoint Liberals like Arnold Schwarzenegger disappointed me, by being a moderate centrist.
What a racist country we are living in?
47% of the Americans DID NOT vote for Obama!
Racism lives…
Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton still have some roles to play in American politics.
/sarc. off
I may need to consider revising my 10 year plan down to a 2 year plan.
Long story short, by this time in 2010, I’ll be in a third world carribean country, drunk on the beach, and shall remain there, and in that state, for the rest of my life.
Not everyone aspires to greatness…or even mediocrity.
Ummmm, I dont think anyone here voted for Perot tonight…
Agreed. MM contributed to this mess by demonizing McCain every chance she had. She’s got a whole constituency here who smugly voted 3rd party out of “principle”, a tactic which just put a radical socialist in the White House.
Take a lesson from George Orwell:
“If you hamper the war effort on one side, you automatically help out that of the other”.
This was war, and we lost it, thanks to myopic bubbleheads who haven’t a clue.
(Once the comments turn over to a new page of another 100 comments, I don’t think anybody goes back to read previous comments — and since I stupidly split my comment between 200 and 201 — I’m reposting it in its entirety. So excuse me for repeating. I just want to have my rant posted as a whole thought — and correct a few errors.)
It’s official.
THE WESTERN HALF OF THE UNITED STATES DOESN’T COUNT!!!
I am pissed. Absolutely and profoundly pissed off that McCain conceded so early. I don’t care what the projections were for those rasafracking solid gold swing states — HE SHOULD NOT HAVE CONCEDED until all the votes were counted — until every state had chimed in.
We have FIFTY STATES. Last I checked, FIFTY STATES were supposed to make this decision, not a measly few back east.
I’m tired of being ignored in national elections because I live on the west coast!!!
This is how we got screwed in the primaries and ended up with McCain. I never even got to vote for the candidate I really wanted in the primary because he and every other republican candidate had already given up. I’m sick of these people!!
Tomorrow morning when we know what the final numbers are (or very close to final), even a proven landslide victory by Obama will not change my mind that I’ve been screwed tonight by McCain, the whole republican party, the MSM and the whole sordid debacle of nationally broadcast coverage of polls that close at different times and those MSM a**holes telling us who’s won before people out here are finished voting.
Plenty of people keep repeating “every vote counts.” No, not according to what happened tonight. Mister-it-ain’t over-till-it’s-over didn’t just concede the election, he conceded that my vote and millions of others meant nothing. Nada. Zip. Zilch.
Okay. Fine. Next election cycle you can just take your stinking campaign to Ohio and Pennsylvania and Virginia or wherever those precious few swing states happen to pop up in 2012 — and then just leave us no-account western states the hell alone. No wall-to-wall campaign ads, no lies and counter-lies, no yard signs, no crappy campaign schtick at all! And what a relief that would be.
I mean, if you’re gonna ignore us and act like we don’t count, the least we can get in exchange would be some relief from a seemingly endless two year campaign.
Now, that would be refreshing. And I wouldn’t feel as cheated as I have been tonight.
Okay. I’m done. Back to normal living.
I read somewhere — can’t remember where offhand — that this is on Obama’s list of things to do. It takes a 2/3rds vote in each house of Congress then 3/4th of state legislatures to pass. Given the number of Dhimmicrats and RINOs in Congress, that is achieveable and since Dhimmicrats control most of the state legislatures, that is also doable.
Dear Leader for Life.
OMG! You are so right! Wonder who is going to be complaining the loudest as BO screws up the country? When’s the new book coming out, Michelle?
Wishful thinking. The “racist” talk is not over, it’s just beginning…
Remember Ayers’ new book is on the way…
I wonder how many “O” keys will be missing from the White House computer keyboards?
Remember that?
Only joking – I’m sure our President Bush administration will be have class, more so than the President Clinton administration was in the transition in January 2001.
See:
Allegations of Damage During the 2001 Presidential Transition
My blog:
Iowa Catholic Vote
I think the Christine Todd Whitman/Chuck Hagel/Arlen Specter squishy cons/RINOs is actually a result of the sharp leftward lurch of the Democrats. After the Henry Wallace/George McGovern (pro-Soviet Union/pro-socialist) wing of the party gained control, anti-communists in the party, people who were liberal but patriotic, people like Scoop Jackson, Zel Miller, Phil Gramm, Hubert Humphrey, who used to be the backbone of the Dems when they were a loyal opposition, were not welcome. People like Bob Casey, shunned at the 1992 Dem Convention because of his pro-life views.
Those who were either supporters of Marxism, like Kennedy, or those that just enjoyed the perqs of power (I suspect Reid and Byrd fall in that group), came to control the party. The more moral members of the party, who were liberal on many social and economic issues, but found the Dems too extreme, migrated to the Republicans, and diluted what had become a conservative party of the Goldwater/Reagan model.
These are the people that are uncomfortable with a party that is firm in respect for life, and firm in the belief in limited government and low taxes.
They aren’t bad people, but as the Dems veer hard left, they have pulled the Republicans to the middle.
We don’t want to wind up a permanent Conservative-Lite party like the Tories wound up post Thatcher in the UK. When they were firm for conservatism, the won, now they are a slightly less liberal Labour Party. And they lose, except when individual Tories run as true Tories.
Noonan and Parker and the MSM pundits will urge the GOP to move even farther to the middle, but it hasn’t worked before, and there is no reason it’ll work again.
And no, Palin is not why McCain lost, and if she starts planning now, she may be in good shape if she chooses to subject her family to another national run in 2012.
Well, considering Bloomberg (Democrat — please, do you really believe he’s an Independent?) went against the will of the people and changed the law with regards to term limits, anything is possible.
How about learning how to fight and win wars, Michelle?
First rule of Fight Club IS THAT YOU DON’T TALK ABOUT FIGHT CLUB!
Congratulations, President-Elect Obama. You made history. But don’t expect us conservatives to give in or give up. We’ll fight you every step of the way. We won’t sit idly by while you create slavery 2.0 – half of us slaving to make money for the government, half of us slaves to the “benefits” government confers. We won’t allow a massive bloating of entitlement programs. We will scream bloody murder when you try to raise our taxes, raid our 401(k) accounts, socialize our health care. We will fight you. Not because we hate you, but because we know – deep down we know – that you are wrong for the country.
So give us your best. We’ll give you ours. This is America. And as the left has reminded us over and over again, “dissent is the highest form of patriotism”.
I don’t recall voting for the man. I voted for a “conservative”. But, while we’re thanking people, I’d like to thank you for McCain and the current state of the Republican party. This whole moderate Republican thing is really working out well, isn’t it?
It is going to be exhausting keeping tabs on them now.
Funny considering this bill passed by a large margin in Arizona
Even if they did that, noone in the new Administration would notice. I bet their first act will be to throw out all the PC and replace them with shiny new Macs.
I would’ve much preferred Hillary. At least we know what she’s all about, and what to expect. No one knows ANYTHING about Obama. He has no paper trail, nothing.
This is beyond scary.
One thing we can thank McCain for is introducing Sarah Palin to the world stage. The campaign left many of us frustrated…but how many of us knew about Sarah prior to John McCain tapping her for VEEP?
So now that the MSM have their appointed Messiah in the White House…can we actually do some investigation into who and what he is? Will there actually be someone out there with a conscience who will expose him to the public?
And just where are they going to get all those parcels of 40 acres anyway?
I’m not a religous man and I question if there is a god but I have a gut feeling that obama is the anti-christ, if there is such a thing.
Okay, he isn’t a Muslim, so that must have been why he said, “McCain hasn’t talked about my Muslim faith…” to George Stepabozo, who without further comment by the media quietly corrected him.
Atheling said:
So Michelle Malkin is just supposed to eat a s@#t sandwhich and smile everytime John McCain sells himself to the Democrats? If she did she would not be doing her job…her research and those of other blogs have done more to bring to light just how corrupt the Republicans have become with few exceptions. Michelle Malkin covered the good about McCain as well as the bad. Stop whining.
The next Commander in Chief has a political mentor that bombed the Pentagon. How messed up is that?
What do you want to bet a butt load of senior military people put their retirement papers in this week?
LOL, yes, McCain’s defeat had nothing to do with the millions of Americans who rejected him at the voting booth.
I understand you may feel a deep need to lash out at someone – anyone – atheling, but the fact is the GOP just ran a fatally flawed candidate and campaign. That’s all there is to it. When my team loses football games I don’t blame the guy who pointed out the fact that my team stinks on ice. You can shoot the messengers all you want, but it won’t help.
If I was George Bush and his administration, I’d be tempted to remove the “O” from every keyboard in the White House on their way out the door. That may not be too classy, but it’d make me laugh.
And if what Republicans that are left in the house and Senate start the Hormone Replacement Therapy now, they can get the Testosterone levels back to normal by January so that they can man up for the fight ahead.
Yep! Thank God, it passed. We also re-elected Sheriff Joe. He rocks.
I wish McCain and Palin had won. But I am looking to a few things: the foundation of this nation is second to none; this nation was founded by the grace of God and with His guidance (NOT Obama’s), we will continue to be the greatest nation in the world; in 2012, watch out: Palin/Jindal. I’m all fired up!
On November 5th, 2008 at 12:08 am, purplepeep said:
I think that there are core issues on which we should not compromise, that said: what got us Reagan wasn’t that he wasn’t being called the equivalent of a “RINO” back in the day but that people were so fed up with carter that they were willing to elect a “rino”… I am not saying that we should lower our standards preemptively or otherwise. But the hysteria that McCain was subjected to is PART of what has gotten us here.
Look, cynically put: You don’t have to agree with someone 100% of the time to get some use out of them. Doesn’t that make any sense? If a “log cabin republican’s” vote keeps Al Frankin out of the whitehouse should he be told to go vote for the democrats? That is what we are already getting ready to do it seems.
Sure. But when you are defining it as only what you want and the hell with any dissent (Or anything less is “evil”, honest to God, “evil”) you are going to get a situation where the only person who made it through the primaries had to catch it from BOTH sides. It is going to alienate people, stop money from coming in, make us look like fools and lose us the election.
I don’t object to being called a fascist by the moonbats, but being called a RINO because I am trying to get someone elected (A good man who had some bad ideas)to stop a real threat to the USA is a bit frigging much.
Good night purplepeep.. And everyone else. Hope the sun comes up tomorrow.
Still watching Fox..it’s funny to watch them start the official pandering to the left and obama.
STFU, you moron. You put the bloody socialist in the White House and you can’t even own it. You threw away your vote out of “principle” which gave us this radical.
When you grow up, which I hope is soon, maybe you’ll learn to take responsibility for your actions – indirectly as well as directly.
And believe me, every time the Fraud does something to destroy this country further, I will be here to thank you personally. You will have my eternal gratitude, you witless, ignorant, adolescent.
Yeah atheling,
I think MM is totally responsible for this drubbing. If only she had hated on McCain less, it totally would have swung those extra 6 million or so voters and/or 160 electoral votes over to Johnny Mac.
Does HRT work if you have already made the trip to the Vet?
Tonight we started on a path towards pure socialism i fear for my country..A lot of people got hoodwinked tonight how sad..
Oh baby…I thought you only talked dirty to me….
I feel so…so…used…
Sorry, I see someone thought of the “O” keyboard thing already. I think I’ll just go now.
I see that somewhere in the world
Castro applauded…have Mahmoud, ol Vlad, and the like also sent their congrats to Barry yet? Or will they wait for the proverbial tea party wherein world peace is achieved via a group hug?
Excuse me, but MM is not god.
And do me the favor of pointing out the “good” reporting of McCain that she did. Just give me some links.
I’ll wait.
That’s right. McCain should have won this. He missed several opportunities to turn it around. He failed to follow through.
It doesn’t look like the third party fringe candidates deflected enough votes from McCain to have made a difference.
Yes, I think it is idiotic to vote third party rather than the flawed semi-conservative, when his opponent was an accolyte of Jeremiah Wright, Edward Said, William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, but in the end, it didn’t matter. It hurt McCain, but he still would have lost even if all the Libertarian/Constitution/whatever else hopeless fringe party vote went his way.
Bush 41 lost to Clinton because of Perot, Gore lost because of Nader, but McCain would have lost with or without the fringe candidates.
You forgot about ACORN. And Big Media.
I hope you’ll enjoy spreading your wealth around when your taxes skyrocket. You may not be able to afford that $100 ham you’re eating right now.
What of his citizenship?
What of the voter fraud?
What of the media fraud?
What of the campaign donation fraud?
Cheap vodka, sweetie. About a liter just for you.
Attacking our own. Yeah, they’re going to eat-that-up.
mccain lost because he was mccain. The republicans did not know how to connect to the american public. This is all about marketing and the republican party failed at marketing 101. “Know your audience and sell them what they want to get what you want.”
You feel used now? Just wait after a year or two.
You’ll get used to bending over.
I’d like to teach the world to sing
In perfect harmony
I’d like to buy the world a Coke
And keep it company
That’s the real thing.
(Chorus 2)
What the world wants today
Coca-Cola (background)
Is the real thing
purplepeep said:
Atheling has a point. More should have been done to rally our side. Instead it was a more or less constant barrage of Daddy Yankee, etc… Again, he wasn’t perfect, or even great. but look what we have instead.
Atheling needs to run in 2012. I will personally quash all dissent for that election.
See you in the Gulag.
Oh retfireman, atheling is not one of your own. She’s a special kind of crazy totally unique from the rest of you.
And that’s why I just can’t get her out of my mind…or heart.
By the way, looking at what’s approaching to be the final numbers, and it seems to me that this year was another good one for Scott Rasmussen. He’s earned his reputation as a decent pollster, and even though we didn’t give him much credit because we didn’t like what he was telling us, he was pretty close again. With all of the ridiculous jumps among the polls, he was pretty consistent with Obama by 5 since early October.
Don’t worry! Be happy!’
I can tell you how to create a better life for yourself, in a land of Smiling, Happy people!
Zimbabwe.
Rather than rehashing what I’ve already explained (without the ad hominems you seem to enjoy using), I’ll just refer you back to my comments from our previous discussion. Thanks.
I am in the process of starting a small business(we hope to surpass 250k in 5 years) and I think will be putting my hispanic wife in charge. We are going to milk this government for all it’s worth while they are giving out things to hispanics, blacks, and all other minorities.
My wife’s idea, not mine.
Here: Alan may have found a job.
I can’t wait to see the look of shock on the faces of all the little obama supporters when they are confronted with how the Islamic terroist really don’t give a damn about hugs and singing “Kumbaya”. Wait till they find out that it had absolutely NOTHING to do with George W. Bush. Wait till they reap the benefits of a gutted military…the same one they have been wrending their garments over how over-stretched they are. Wait until they finally have that attack that has been promised that will make 9-11 look like a fireworks display.
Oh yeah…I can’t wait for all those who mocked Bushfor waiting to get the all the facts before he got up and dealt with the situation to go ape scat over Obama “Ah…uh…ah”ing while he waits for his 300 advisers to come together with a plan to blame the US and try to talk with the ones murdering Americans so they can come together and reach an agreement over tea.
Just remember the age old adage kids…”You get what you paid for”.
That’s not unreasonable, Bill. But the problem here is that, even subscribing to that view, McCain was the wrong horse to run this race. Some horse’s “use” consist of winning the Triple Crown and some of providing glue.
Have a good night.
LOVETORUMBA:
If she did she would not be doing her job…her research and those of other blogs have done more to bring to light just how corrupt the Republicans have become with few exceptions. Michelle Malkin covered the good about McCain as well as the bad. Stop whining.
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One thing about the left. They maintain a unity within the ranks when it comes to elections. Conservatives? That’s another story. Peggy Noonan, Georgie Will, and Kathleen Parker joined their liberal media bubblehead associates and sang harmony for the Palin’s a dummy chorus.
Michelle Malkin? All she ever does is bitch.
I’m dealing with the heaviest heart I’ve had in many years and still cannot believe the support and votes the American people have bestowed upon The One. Without the help of the alphabet channels, MSNBC, PBS, NPR, and CNN it would never have happened. As of now, I will no longer watch or even view anything on those channels. My wallet is closed and I fully intend to pay off all debts and pull in whatever resourses I have to be completely fluid. Any contributions to a college or university are not going to happen, contributions to charities may suffer as well. Any donations to my political party are null and void. We are going to be taxed to the ninth degree. Can we survive this as a country/nation is the bigger question?
We should all let the young youthful voters that placed this man in office suffer the consequences. Watching them stream through the polling places today proved to me they need the lessons their parents failed to teach them about living with choices you make in life. This was a game to them and I’m guessing – one they’ll never quite comprehend. But a hard, up against the head, lesson nevertheless. One little piece of paper they so irreverently filled in will give them a reality check they never saw coming.
The hardest lessons will be to the black population that so adore him. Obama’s loyalties are not with them. It is to the people of Africa he holds in esteem. He has never shared the experience of America’s black community, his only interest will be to use them. Because that is what he is…..a user. Say anything, do anything to get where you want to be.
We all need to pray and hold strong to our faith tonight. Faith and family will be what ultimately saves us, and this nation. Prayers and many thanks for MM and her family go out as well. Michelle has been extraordinary in keeping us informed, allowing us to vent when we’re frustrated, and given us a community of people sharing our thoughts, ambitions, fears, and hope for the future.
“Profanity is a tool of the weak mind to convey an idea.”
The people who voted for Obama put him in the White House, not me.
Call it what you will. I voted for the man who best fit my ideals based upon the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bible.
Having had led men in combat, I don’t think I need lecturing from you on what it means to “grow up” or to “take responsiblity for [my] actions”.
Excellent. I look forward to our future discussions. So how are the Congressional races coming? The “lesser of two evils”/lame duck/moderate socialist President really set them up for success didn’t he?
You’re welcome?
Ad hominems: the most overused and quite possibly the most self-defeating fallacy around. Another quote, for your edification: “The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.” ~Pasquier Quesnel. I look forward to each and every one of our future discussions.
Now – he will actually have some REAL responsibilities.
“Ideas are much more fatal things than guns. Why should any man be allowed to buy a *printing press and disseminate pernicious opinions calculated to embarrass the government.” – Lenin
*or web blog
Ed Mahmoud:
And no, Palin is not why McCain lost, and if she starts planning now, she may be in good shape if she chooses to subject her family to another national run in 2012.
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I really like Sarah Palin, but her national career is over. The news/entertainment media has successfully sold their image of her as a flea brain and she’ll never live it down. Too bad, but that’s the power they have and that’s the way it is.
But there is a bright side. There are several dynamic young conservatives in Congress. Eric Cantor and Michelle Bachmann are two. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal will be tough for the East Coast news media and West coast entertainment media to smear because he’s so incredibly smart and a minority. Gov. Tim Pawlenty of MN is a little bland, but extremely competent and likable.
The Navy certainly has quite the track record for producing some of our most inept Presidents:
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Richard M. Nixon
Gerald R. Ford
Jimmy Carter
George Bush, Sr.
John KerryWe definitely need some more Soldiers like Washington, Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Reagan, and Russell.
purplepeep:
McCain was the wrong horse to run this race.
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No other Republican would have gotten closer than 10 points. The combination of Bush’s ineptitude, especially at defending himself, and the self-serving Republican senators has so tarnished ther Republican brand that only an outsider like McCain stood any chance.
I don’t know. I’m personally not fond of attack ads, but since the MSM couldn’t be bothered to investigate the Obammunist, a lot more stuff about Wright and Ayers, at debates and in ads, might have done the trick.
I can’t wait until the media actually start doing their jobs, and find out what this empty suit is all about.
And then we can say…I told you so.
Same here, Dex. My husband has a couple years left. We were both resigned to this.
How can Americans can think it “compassionate” to downsize the military budget? I don’t get how people think voting for a person who says the “right” things but has a totally opposite record of not supporting the military will be a good Commander in Chief. As usual, the people who voted for Obummer have missed the bigger picture.
How many military members are going to lose their jobs because of Obummer? How many military families will be broken because this man promised his cultists the world and only gave them peanuts? Will the American people ever understand that the military needs new equipment and weapons systems as an investment in the future?
I don’t mean to generalize about the relationship between the military and civilians because I know that there are people who care and those who could care less. I’m seriously concerned about the repercussions of this man getting elected. He won’t be a boon he’ll be a curse, especially on those who have made the military a career.
This election signified that the American people got bored with schticky patriotic games (the ones who could care less) when the Iraq War no longer was to their liking. If anything, there is more a disconnect between civilians and the military.
The military is already sacrificing a lot. How much more are they to sacrifice for the pleasure of an intellectually and historically stunted American people?
That’s your guess, Investor. I suspect other folks would guess differently. But since guesses are like armpits, it’s neither here nor there.
Oh please. Wake up and smell the coffee. The media had nothing to do with what happened today. The GOP is never going to rise up again if it blames the media. What happened today is a result of GOP main man, Bush, having left this country in tatters. Bush has been a disaster at almost everything he has ever been involved in. From the oil fields to the presidency. His father must really be proud now, none in the GOP will touch Bush – he is an outcast.