Heckuva job, McLame
From the man whose best-sellers include “Why Courage Matters” and “Character Is Destiny” comes this underwhelming reaction to the cowardly smearing of Sarah Palin by his own unnamed staffers:
“These things happen.”
Not: “Shame on the leakers. I denounce and renounce them.”
Not: “I’m going to get to the bottom of this and make sure those blabbermouths never work in a major campaign again.”
Just: “These things happen.”
Yup. Business as usual from The Maverick’s not-so-maverick campaign:
Senator John McCain: She understands all the energy issues. There’s a $40 billion pipeline coming to bring natural gas to places like California. And so look, she’s a marvelous person.
Jay Leno: Now, these aides that were criticizing her — and I think everyone agrees there were Republican aides who were criticizing her. I know you wouldn’t go for that. I know you’re an old soul. You don’t let people talk — but why?
Senator John McCain: One — these things happen in campaigns too. I think I have at least a thousand, quote, top advisors. “A top advisor said” — people I’ve never even heard of, much less a, quote, top advisor or a high-ranking Republican official. It’s — these things go on in campaigns, and you 6 just –
Jay Leno: Why don’t we just move on.
Senator John McCain: I’m just very proud to have had Sarah Palin and her family, a wonderful family.
Now, contrast McCain’s apathetic response to the fragging attacks on his running mate with McCain’s effusive praise for Democrat Sen. Joe Lieberman (and watch out for the snarky dig at Palin over the clothes brouhaha):
Jay Leno: How about Joe Lieberman? Was he a close choice? Was that possible?
Senator John McCain: Joe is one of the finest, most wonderful men I’ve ever known in my life. I have never known a finer man than Joe Lieberman, and I believe I won the nomination because right before the New Hampshire primary — and I know I don’t expect a lot of you to remember all the details — he came out to supported me. It mattered. Independent voters 7 voted with us. I love Joe Lieberman.
Jay Leno: That might cost him the chairmanship now. Is that –
Senator John McCain: I hope not, because Joe is a wonderful person. And we want people to stand up for –
Jay Leno: Can you do that? Can you lose your chairmanship in the Senate just because you picked what your party perceives as an –
Senator John McCain: It generally is not done. I don’t, obviously, know what — what’s going to happen. But I know that Joe Lieberman is one of the — and by the way, on national security issues, he’s really, really good.
Jay Leno: And he’s an independent now; right?
Senator John McCain: He’s a, quote, independent Democrat.
Jay Leno: Would you want him to be a, quote, independent Republican?
Senator John McCain: No, no.
Jay Leno: Try to get him over on the other side, kind of lure him over –
Senator John McCain: I’m honored to have –
Jay Leno: — get him some clothes, expensive clothes, maybe nice suit? (Laughter.)
Senator John McCain: Neiman Marcus?
Jay Leno: Neiman Marcus.
Senator John McCain: But yeah, I think that — I think that Joe is going to probably remain as what he is, an independent who stands up for what he believes in. We need more people like Joe Lieberman.
Oh, and to add insult to injury, McCain’s opening joke was recycled from Bob Dole’s 1996 joke book.
Bob Dole, February 15, 1996:
If Bob Dole hears the footsteps of the ghosts of New Hampshires past, he is not admitting it.
“Ghosts?” he said in response to a question here this morning. “I don’t see any ghosts.”
And, as if tempting the fates, Mr. Dole went further than his aides, who have been saying lately that he does not have to win New Hampshire to win the Republican Presidential nomination. “Whoever wins next Tuesday in New Hampshire,” Mr. Dole predicted, “will probably be the Republican nominee.”
Twice before, the Granite State has proved a graveyard for Mr. Dole’s Presidential dreams. But Mr. Dole opened his weeklong run-up to next week’s primary here exactly as he did eight years ago, by addressing the New Hampshire Legislature in Concord on Tuesday.
He told the lawmakers about losing back then, but “sleeping like a baby — every two hours, I woke up and cried.”
Jay Leno: As I said, today is Veterans Day. I cannot think of a better person to have as my first guest. Vietnam veteran, real American war hero, also just ran a hard-fought campaign against Barack Obama, now our President elect. Please welcome, in his first television interview,
Senator John McCain. (Applause.) Welcome back, sir.
Senator John McCain: Thank you, my friend. And thank you for having all these brave servicemen and women here. I’m honored to be with you. Thanks.
Jay Leno: It’s been a week since the election. How are you doing?
Senator John McCain: Well, I’ve been sleeping like a baby. (Laughter.) Sleep two hours, wake up and cry. Sleep two hours, wake up and cry. (Laughter.)
Heckuva job, McLame.
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I’m beginning to think that McCain himself was behind the Palin smears. The absence of class in his campaign is very telling.
Good riddance Mr. McCain. Go away and stay away.
Sounds like Johnny Boy has been stomping some sour grapes himself.
Maybe he didn’t like Palin stealing all of his thunder.
Whatever courage and integrity McCain had in him was used up many years back. He’s been running on empty ever since.
McCain is simply a politician. Governor Palin’s VP appointment was a political move and, in McCain’s world, her smearing is all ‘politics’. Whenever a person has to refer to everyone in sight as “my friend” it’s a glaring reminder that he doesn’t have any..and the reason : He’s not a nice guy!
He showed traitorous behavior to his country with his rotten attempts at legislation and now he has two failed presidential bids to follow him through history as well. He’s treating his running mate the same way. Maybe because she’s a conservative.
Sarah Palin, on the other hand, is regarded as the sole bright spot in an otherwise bleak campaign and a rising star.
Hmmm, which would you rather be?
Maybe McAmnesty should just go on a camping trip with Liberalman and Lucky Lindsay and enjoy the fall leaves – at this point, past their prime, depressing and crumbling away.
If Palin had a “D” behind her name, McCain would go to the ends of the Earth to defend her.
I’m still wondering who the <expletive deleted> thought he was a good “second” choice (much less “first”). Then again, the GOP has been chosing the next in line since 1956.
I’m glad we won’t have to put up with spineless McCain in 2012. I have never in 52 years seen such a pathetic person run for the highest office in the world while slobbering all over his opponent. I voted for him to keep Barack Hussein Obama out of office, but he showed me every day that he was just another RINO. I hope Sarah runs for the office in 2012, for I will surely support her, unless of course she picks McCain as her running mate.
He needs to just fade away like the Old Soldier (Sailor) he is.
Yep, it turns out that McCain, to paraphrase Denny Green, “is exactly who we thought he was.”
Two incredibly sh*tty choices for President in this election.
Looking for a silver lining, the possibility exists that because of his age Obama might be able to shed some of his youthful convictions and rise to the occasion.
There is or was no chance that McCain could change his stripes.
Who knew that the only Republican ‘with a pair’ wore high heels and lipstick.
Until the Republicans grow a spine, and return to CORE PRINICIPLES…they will be a minority. And trust me, I HATE saying that.
In many ways I’m glad this fool was defeated. He would of been even more damaging to the conservative cause in office. Now maby he will fade away.
Not just any RINO, Henry, he’s the RINO’s RINO.
Now the GOP has to pick itself up, learn from the McCain Mistake and get back to the basics.
The one thing we can thank him for is that in McCain’s Inspector Clouseau RINO bumblings he – going against his own nature – put a bonafide conservative “superstar” (Palin) front and center. He’s kicking himself for that now, getting revenge by having his flunkies attack her and then just saying “these things happen”.
McLame fell even further in my personal estimation by his refusal to come to the defense of Sarah Palin, and that was very difficult to do!
No, John. We need more people like Sarah Palin! I’ve had quite enough of people of “Courage” and “Character” like Senator John McCain. Losing was your “Destiny”. Stay lost.
You are the optimist, aren’t you, Willie? But I suppose there is room for a very remote hope Obama will have a “Damascus Road” epiphany at some point and finally do what’s right. I wouldn’t bet the farm on it, though.
He didn’t deserve her.
McLame should be ashamed of himself. He trashes conservatives when they tell the truth about opponents and now–these things happen. This is code for keep it up. Sarah Palin has been all over the news and people love her. McLame has been in hiding. She energized his campaign and he can’t even defend her. He is pathetic in this regard. May God continue to bless the Palin family.
THIS is the Republican Party?: Joe Liberalman, Juan McAmnesty, Lindsey Ghramnisty, Dead Kennedy.. (oh yeah, right, Kennedy is just another reach around buddy.)
These little androgynous wimps are the best conservatives can do?? I mean, come on.. Lindsey… LINDSEY?? The guy flits around better than Tinkerbelle!
These little men are LEADERS?
He went to Washington to change Washington but Washington changed him…actually I think he went to Washington to be part of the scam.
I’m with what Ann Coulter had to say in her column last week:
“…all I care about is hunting down and punishing every Republican who voted for McCain in the primaries.”
McCain built his career on screwing over Republicans, and he just did it to us again. Like the scorpion that stings the turtle halfway across the river so that they both drown, why did these people think he would, or could, change what is his nature?
At least we’re finally rid of him, as far as ever running for POTUS again.
He wants to be a democrat soooo badly. He has as surely fallen to the dark side by saying that as president, he would buy up all of the bad mortgages and make it so all the people that were dumb enough to not ask the question, “yeah, this sounds I great but what will my monthly payments be after this two year honeymoon”? Absolutely the wrong way on immigration issues and we could go on and on.
Like Powell, I’m not so sure he was really ever a Republican. And yes, we all know the term “Rino”. I think he was way beyond rino, like lindsey graham et al.
As been stated here a gazillion times, we need to start from the ground up and get the ones that have turned from red to blue outta’ there.
If they had gone after Barack HUSSEIN Obama like they’ve gone after SarahCuda, I’m sure he’d be the President now.
Maybe they are. Michael Steele is being considered as the new head of the Party. Also, that RINO David Brooks is whining that the “traditionalists” are taking over from the “reformers” in the Party. Hopefully, the Republican Party is being reborn.
WOW! Don’t be surprised to see McCain become a democrat! Nothing this guy would do could surprise me. I only regret that I voted for him. Well, I actually voted against BHO. Poor Sarah and she still says wonderful things about McCain? He should have come out against these leakers with both barrels but not the soft spoken, caring and wimpy McCain!
Nice to know I wasted a vote on this a$$. Never again will I vote for someone whose political leanings I have so little in common with.
I can accept a lose, but why support a candidate with convictions so tenuous.
I can’t believe she wrote that. There’s widespread belief that “Independents” (flaming liberals) voted for him in NH (since their top candidates all shared the same views) and got the ball rolling since they were terrified of Romney back then. Whether the Dem “Operation Chaos” was successful in the primary states where you didn’t have to vote by affiliation is still murky. But there’s no doubt McSame’s NH win got the ball rolling.
But they are NOT going to do that. We have to learn our place in the world and the media will show it to us.. and lead us to it.
Russia is making a comeback, China is growing and even heading toward the moon.
Someday, they will speak of the late great USA that once even went to China’s moon.
So, we had to wait for McCain to do Leno before we have to hear any rebuttal on the Palins smears. NOT
So much for character.
I thought Sarah answered the clothes questions pretty good on the Greta interview.
And now, the GOP wants your input.
http://www.republicanforareason.com/intro.aspx
My guess is that it is just a shame … nobody of importance is gonna read all of those comments/suggestions.
SoCal, and that will be printed in the government bailout of the nyt. Of that you can be sure.
John McCain: selected by the Legacy Media as a lame prop to run against their chosen candidate. Republicans did not choose him, the legitimate candidates were marginalized and destroyed by the Left, just as they are trying to destroy any potential future threats to their goal of total power. Palin is a threat as are Jindal and others. McCain may be worthy of honor as an American warrior but he is no leader and no friend to Conservatives.
He should be defending and promoting the next generation of Conservative leaders, not assisting their enemies. The only Republicans that the neo-Stalinists will tolerate (as “democratic” window dressing) are the RINOs. Indeed, radical change is needed in America but I feel even the strongest patriot does not have the stomach for it.
Watching Sarah Palin on Greta the last two nights has been affirmation to me that she is one heck of a woman. The best part was when she was cooking dinner for Greta and the camera crew, whilst carrying on a conversation about her views on energy, multi-tasking at it’s finest. McCain has disappointed me for not speaking up in defense of Sarah Palin, but then, he’s been a disappointment this whole campaign. At least he’s consistent.
The GOP needs to smarten up and close the Primaries to only registered Republicans to prevent another Democrat in Republican clothing from being our standard-bearer.
Does anyone think McCain will try again in four years? This is the closest he’s ever gotten to his dream of being President. I hope not.
If he had wanted to win, McCain should have named his Cabinet posts early like Mitt Romney, who was the choice of the Republicans for President.
The old guy is pissed.
He listened to the conservative base in the primaries and selected a conservative for Veep.
However, he never truely believed in those conservative principles and could not articulate them on the campaign trail, only reacting to every liberal talking point.
A lot of conservatives stayed home on election day…more than we know.
He lost, and now he’s bitter, resentful and probably wishes he had stuck with Joe (and lost by a landslide).
He didn’t learn anything, because he doesn’t understand conservativism. He understands appeasing the enemy quite well.
And now the template is that conservatism is dead. No, we are that sleeping giant that shows up for every debate, but only to get ushered out the back door and told to vote for “Me”.
This will continue to happen until a real leader shows up to play.
I don’t think McCain needs to be vehement in his defense of Gov. Palin. She is more than capable of taking care of herself.
Let’s face it, if he had “come to her defense,” then the media would be running with their sexist view that she needs a man to justify her existence in politics.
Mccain is a demonrat hiding in Rino clothing………Hey we all knew he was a disaster as a candidate for conservatives…..Frankly I voted for him ONLY because of Palin……I think this election ran as planned…socialism and North American Union in your future.
And I never understood, nor agreed with the premise that America wanted someone who could work with the other side in order to get things done in Washington.
That may be how McCain sees it, or at least how the Democrats see getting things done in Congress (getting repubs to cross the isle on lamebrain bills), but it’s not reality based.
Throw McCain under the conservative bus!
McCain wouldn’t allow Rev Wright to be an issue, but he can’t come out strongly against the cowardly RINOs.
Obama offends me deeply because of his 20 year association with Wright.
Where’s the poll asking Americans if they are offended by a president who attended racist rallies for 20 years?
Guys, look at the bright side… You folks are rid of him… Here in Arizona, he is still our SENATOR… I too wake up every 2 hours crying… His silence on SARAH PALIN is disgusting to the MAX… Gotta love GRETA for her in depth interview… I now have more RESPECT, and a GENUINE FONDNESS for SARAH… The so-called REPUBS who trashed her should remember the old computer saying, “BE AFRAID, BE VERY AFRAID.”
McCain lost because a little over half of the voters in this country are frightened little parasites and left wing America haters that serve only themselves and long for the next series of handouts from a nanny government. Conservatives will never win until the attitudes and behaviors of these people are minimized and overcome. McCain simply had no workable battle plan to counter this leftist onslaught. Next time we must be better prepared for a relentless fight.
Putting America First?? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Putting McCain’s Image first is more like it. McCain has shown he is for himself, and Himself alone the last dozen or so years.
Which is NOT going to happen until we change the tempo and articulate conservative values and quit debating liberal agendas and Democrat pet projects.
I think the biggest travesty this year was all candidates in the primaries accepted the medias’ talking points as fact and tried to put a conservative spin on them, as opposed to suggesting the conservative response to the issues.
I did not vote for McCain in the primary even though he had already been chosen. I did vote for him rather than vote for Hussein. I can only hope the good people of Arizona get him out of the Senate and get a good anti-immigration Senator to take his place. He will probably end up switching parties since that his where his heart is. I hope the Republican Party finds someone with some courage to turn this back into a party of conservatives.
McCain was the Mondale of the GOP in this campaign.
It’s amazing, and ONLY DUE TO SARAH PALIN, that it wasn’t a 57 state landslide.
I like that!!! very nice!!
Ah, the sneering, condescending, thinly-concealed MDS on the far right finally rears it’s ugly head, post-election.
I knew this was coming.
Now that the election is over with and Mr. McCain lost, Michelle, you can let it go, can’t you?
Don’t hold back! Just let go with all that dripping, corrosive, supressed McHatred that you had for McCain during the campaign, and the bitterness that you still harbor for being asked to restrain it.
Go ahead, let it all hang out!
/RIP credibility
McVain does his usual bang-up job of defending conservatives.
As for the rest of the shameful comments here from people who are so full of McHatred that you either can’t or won’t restrain yourselves…
Ugly people like you are the reason so many intelligent Conservatives are moving towards the center.
Stay classy, Malkinites.
On November 12th, 2008 at 8:40 am, vbmom said:
Bingo.
you’re not a conservative…as far as them being ‘intelligent’ …as Orwell said:
“One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.”
McIdiot actually was true to his principles, as the body of this comment lays out.
Well, there are scads of us who could say: I told you so!
But unlike Aetheling (the Unready) and Irish Stinkweed, with their Wednesday “Thank You fo BO”s, we have more class than that.
And, unlike Irish Stinkweed:
Who still likes McCain’s job, after all, it is what she wanted! Who’s been a BO-Bot from the beginning…
I do think this information, when added to McLame’s entire voting trend shows what happened: Johnny wanted his actual friends, those whose minds work like his – you know, the Liberals – to win, so he refused to touch anything that hilited B.O.’s “sterling” character, and inteperately denounced any who did. This manifested itself in various forms, obeying any signals the “opposite” camp, (i.e.: McCain’s chosen side, The Socialists) sent up such as denouncing a person using BO’s middle name or someone commenting on BO’s ears, or on Rev. Wright, etc. After all, you can’t just sit by and let people run down your friends, even if it is true, right!
He also needed to stop the Conservative Uprising at the GOP convention. I had a few friends their who where quite clear, up until Sarah was picked as VP that we were going to a brokered convention. After that, most everyone at the convention thought McSham got it. So: he picked Sarah Palin to head off the Conservatives at the convention, but that might have caused an accidental win on election day… McSham didn’t count on the following Sarah had due to her heart-felt Conservatism. Why, Limbaugh was talking about “dragging his lame @#$ over the finish line!” McToadie couldn’t have that! He wanted to finish the destruction of the GOP, and a win would certainly make that more difficult!
This started him on a carefully balanced process: throw Sarah to the wolves, undercut & backbite her. In addition, do “The McCain Three-step”: one step conservative, one back, one to the side during each chorus. This was followed and will be followed in the near future with The McCain Four-step: Middle-finger the base, step towards Socialism, Grab A Democrat and prominade across the isle, knife your party every chorus.
Doubt it? Even after all data shows that niether the “indipendent” and/or “undecideds” block nor the Hispanish block ever had any intention of voting for this McMistake, he sings the same old song… no doubt to ingraciate himself with Nancy and Obie.
It is now clear for all to see, excepting the McCainanites (including Stinkweed & Atheling the Unready), what most of us have known all along: McCain is a Liberal Democrat!
Look at his butt-sucking praise for a socialist whose only redeeming feature is that he supported GWB about Iraq. That McCain & Sen. Whiney share a mind is because they are cut from the same Liberal cloth!
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McCainanites: You pushed for this lovely waste of skin even prior to the convention. We could have had someone who wanted to win! We Conservatives warned you, we exposed what this man was. Both my Dad and I offered proff from his past: Wisconsin RTL, the trend in his voting, other stuff by other people, MM’s fact pieces!
You shouted us down. “Only McCain Can Win!”(tm) You said you’d thank us for President BodyOdor’s win, and Aetheling the Unready along with Irish Stinkweed started to do just that on Wednesday. WELL THE D@MN FOOL DIDN’T WANT TO WIN!
So, as good manners dictate: No, thank you!
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To the Great State of Arizona:
You’d best recall vote this guy, then fumigate anyplace he’s been, lest the next fellow gets bit with the sell-out bug!
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Parting shot:
McSham must destroy Sarah! The reason is obvious: a true maverick would show what a lie his “I’m a Mavrick”(tm) line is!
Usually, i’d agree to disagree, but…well…you’re not giving me alot of wiggle room here.
can you please point to me where mccain has defended palin over these issues in a definite and precise manner? Can you show me one quote, just one…of where he’s called the attacks FROM HIS OWN PEOPLE ON HIS RUNNING MATE….wrong? Not just some lame, limp-wrist dismissal.
Yeah, good luck with that.
Don’t even try to pull out the MDS card on this. Your blind and misapplied loyalty to a man who refuses to DEFEND HIS OWN PEOPLE while running his mouth about how great all of these other people are…defies logical reasoning when you try to make it sound like everyone here has all this vitriol for him. Any comments here were EARNED by mccain the moment he decided to be a weakling and a shill for everyone EXCEPT the ones that should matter most.
But YOU stay classy, and keep on rolling out the “you guys are meanies b/c you said something bad about McCain! *pout*”
If you were like your “Straight Talk Express” train conductor there….well, i wouldnt expect you to condemn palin’s character assassins either. Maybe you should start with doing that. You know..supporting other conservatives, that were on the SAME ticket as McCain?
Nice try though. Sorry to have to level that on you, but…i’m not. Call wrong what it is. Don’t dodge the issue and claim everyone else is being mean, just because you dont like whats being said.
Yes, Stinkweed, you got what you were after: a BO-victory, so why complain?
He lost the election with that silly ploy of “suspending the campaign”, not because of Gov. Palin. How embarassing. He could have at least let Gov. Palin keep on campaigning. But, nooooooooooooooooooooooo.
It was the Tonight Show, for crying out loud, not Meet the Press. Politics need not be drug into every element of life. I applaud Senator McCain for keeping the level of discussion appropriate to the venue. You certainly almost never see that type of decorum from his friends across the aisle.
Irish, have you been drinking your namesake. That is just about the lamest comment I’ve read here. By the way, I don’t mean to be so ugly, unlike the comment you just made.
Think about it.
Bye Bye John
We hardly knew you, and what we did know, well, it disgusted us.
So Bye Bye
OT
Second Amendment saves Houston woman’s life.
No Irish Rose we shouldn’t let it go! We must rid the GOP of crapweasels like McAmnesty. The message must be long and strong.
Do you think Bush is really that hated as a president? Or, was it the dem/msm strategy to portray him as the devil for so long that the ignorant masses would believe everything wrong in the world is because of the GOP?
We need to stay strong on all RINOs to abandon their McCainian values.
As Limbaugh has said: this election has a bright spot, as small as it is, (sort of like McSham’s bit of honor…-mike):
We know who you are now. We know who this “Intellectual Conservatives” – the “Intelligensia” are. They are people who would sell their souls. And not for very much, either.
Funny, Irish Stinkweed, the people over at http://www.intellectualconservative.com/ don’t see much your way…
Oh, I forgot, you are smarter and wiser than any other human – excepting your master, The One.
Senator McCain is a war hero, who suffered a lot for his country. He could have been, maybe should have been, the most conservative man in the Democratic Party, however.
I have lost what little respect I had for McCain. What a sore loser- he couldn’t have Loserman as his running mate, so he belittles the woman who brought him within 5 percentage points of winning.
You would have a “BINGO”, I-Rose, if Gov. Palin didn’t have the decency and courage to defend McCain from attacks – but McCain knew he could depend on her loyalty. And isn’t that called “Hiding behind a woman’s skirt”?
Sadly, with McCain’s utterly disgraceful lack of decency, honor and courage the best he can come up as he savors the sight of his thug’s knives in Palin’s back is “Well, these things happen”.
I can’t believe i voted for this friggin guy!
PARDON ME? WHERE has he come out to defend her? Nowhere! He took the time to defend Sen. Whiney! I guess defending is only good when it is for Liberals!
I thought McCain touted himself as a man of honor, faithful and loyal. Oh, I forgot, he’s a “maverick”.
McCain is now the de facto head of the Republican party – hard to believe, isn’t it? Either that, or there is no head at all, just a bunch of factions thrashing around aimlessly with no direction and no purpose. Time for me to find a new party!
Is it really any use continuing with the Republican party? Haven’t we punished ourselves enough, haven’t we been savaged and betrayed enough? Is there any hope for a real conservative party that emphasizes traditional values and not just talks the talk but also walks the walk?
Maybe now, that you all are beginning to see the John McCain that I have known for many years, you will take an honest look at what he has done to Americans who weren’t as fortunate as he was …To McCain, even this was “just politics”
http://powwarrior.wordpress.com/2008/02/02/the-measure-of-the-man-why-john-mccain-doesnt-measure-up/
not as long as people like mccain are in it. honestly I doubt there is much hope for conservatism. people want the government to take care of them. it can’t and will have to collapse, ala the soviet union to shatter their faith in the government as great bi-racial father…who cares for all his subjects…
He could have defended Palin a little better, but in this instance he was on a light-hearted show with limited time. I’m sure he’ll say more later if needed. I heard Laura Ingraham (on Fox News today) say he should have said he would find out who talked against Palin and work to ensure that they never work in a Republican campaign again. That is silly–the only person who can tell him the names is Carl Cameron. What is he going to do–put Cameron on a rack?
His response to Leno about losing was also done in a light-hearted way:
I said it before, I voted for Palin.
Well, there is a story about a man named Arnold, who was a general and knew the value of loyalty…
I’m not saying that McCain’s “Mutiny” is of a level: he is a much, much lesser man. The concept of honor cuts across it all, however.
Thanks, Michelle, for helping to save us from a Republican president
/s
Election 2008 Results:
Obama – 52%
Palin – 48%
McCain – 0%
Dear John,
This would have come out a lot different had you got on board with Sarah’s message.
Well, Longbow, that has about as much real-world meaning as Bob Dole being head of the GOP or Dukakis being head of the Dems after their losses. Machts nicht.
Leaders are derived from consensus, if you like Sarah Palin you can just as easily cite her as the head of the party.
I’m still glad I voted for him, he would have been the slow boat to socialism as compared to the express train to Marxism, probably with stops at the stattions for the loss of gun and free speech rights, that Obama is almost certainly going to be.
No, Longbow, WE have to do the hard work. The party has to be rebuilt from the ground up, teaching the “Why”s of the Constitution and Conservastism to everyone we can.
We’ve relied on our “leaders” to do this. I think we see where that gets us, no?
I guess the only thing left to do now is put our Senators and Congressmen’s phone numbers on speed-dial and burn up the switchboard for the next 4 years…
…as we look for a REAL conservative to support.
A real conservative could have attacked Obama’s far left positions much more effectively than McCain did.
I hope the conservatives in the party unite behind a candidate early, so it isn’t one RINO getting all the crossover Dem and Independent voters, against 4 or 5 candidates splitting the conservative vote.
Its early yet, but I like Jindal and Palin, and that Georgia Congressman Broun who isn’t afraid to call a Marxist a Marxist, well, Congressmen rarely go far in presidential politics (see Duncan Hunter, by far the best candidate running), maybe it is time for him to run for governor or the Senate in 2010…
McCain got worse each day during the campaign. I still believe his campaign was being managed by far left infiltrators.
I was listening to Col Jack Jacobs on Imus in the Morning, he stated I think John McCain lost his focus 2/3 of the way through the election, that would be around “Septemberish” ??? When the Economy tanked. Is it possible that John McCain, lost heart in the challenge of the Financial Crisis?
Who on here thinks Barack Obama will wave a magic wand, and the Economy will recover? I am watching reports on Cable News, people polled think Barck Obama can save the Economy right now. Barack Obama is going to fall short of Savior and Messiah, he can’t help it, he is just a Hyper Ambitious Pol. The new Administration is only going to be able to blame things on The Bush Administration for awhile. I truly believe folks who voted for McCain/Palin are not going to be as hard on Barack Obama as his own Supporters. Why? They all know he isn’t the Savior. The unemployment numbers are piling up, they say even if we do bail out the automakers it is a band aid. Inflation is on the horizon we are printing money like it is Monopoly Money. When does Reality set in with the Obama Bots? “This ain’t no disco, this ain’t no party, this ain’t no foolin around”
Nevermind Who is John Galt…Where is John Galt.
Yah, Valerie, and you’d cheer him as he sold you down the river, so why listen to you?
If I never hear from this loser again it will be too soon. Good grief. And, I’m sorry to say, Sarah Palin’s interview with Greta Van Susteren on Fox News was all warm and gooey, and oh, so domestic, but I came away thinking, Hey, she spent the better part of two hours not saying a whole lot. I love this family, they’re great, but there just isn’t the “vision thing” working here, at least not yet. And I’m getting the feeling that she is about tapped out past the energy policy issues and can’t we all just get along. Sheesh.
Grassroots.org is building an “army” of Conservatives. Have you signed up yet?
We can all bitch and moan about McCain from now until he retires, but you can’t deny he gave us one good thing … Sarah Palin. Thank you, McCain.
in four years we will be just another “dot com” story…
Hey John… now that the election is over and you have time on your hands… why don’t you go on a hunting trip w/Cheney… and while you’re at it, invite Obama along… maybe Dick will bag a couple of turkeys for Thanksgiving.
Hey! Good News!
Irish Stinkweed, Aetheling the Unready, Valerie! I was reading a book that has a reference to you guys!
Well, actually, it has been a couple of years since I’ve read LOR, but it seemed so apt…
The “leaker” who smeared Palin was McCain’s pal and ghostwriter, Mark Salter.
Under the bus, Sarah.
“These things happen all the time”, expect they don’t. These things seem only to happened when John McCain is the executive in charge.
The last time I saw something like this happened is when McCain’s fired campaign manager took a direct head shot at him in the NY Times, making it look like McCain had cheated on his wife.
Purple, Stinkweed’s never seen a position of McSham’s she didn’t just *adore*, so she’d bingo any positive-but-false thing said about him.
Ron, Palin has honor and class. She didn’t attack her inept runningmate, and she’s defended him. The election is over, so what is the diffrence. McLame, however, not content with THROWING the election feels the need to pull a McKneecap(tm) on HIS running mate! Whotta Man! Whotta Guy! Lets all go to the McCainanite alter and worship!
The only conservative I can foresee to support will be the one who won’t cave into the political correct crap and stick his/her tail between his/her legs and speak truth loud and clear, even if it does offend a few of the faint hearted.
Can’t blame me…I tried to get Fred Thompson on the ticket. Now I’ll settle for him becoming Executive Chairman of the RNC untill 2012
I think I now know why Fred said nothing during the primaries other than smirk at the field of competition. Nobody was saying anything of real value.
I think this is showing us that McShame is not Country First, but me first.
Cowtowing to the left instead of defending the woman that got him the votes he got. Most likely hoping for a position on the obama team.
I knew it wouldn’t be long before I regretted voting for him.
No doubt about that in my mind. John McCain ALWAYS attacks those close to him-his supporters- nothing is ever his fault.
John McCain is a mean, selfish, hot tempered jerk. Recall how he told us “How dare you disagree with me over amnesty and it is not Amnesty” and then we were told to pick lettuce for $50. an hour. Good riddence Juan, hang out with the Beautiful People.
On November 12th, 2008 at 10:07 am, mike.musculus said:
blah, blah, blah.
Just like the campaign rallies: “The Mac is back!”
Nauseating, wasn’t it?