McCain wins…
John McCain can claim a victory. He has won the Right Wing News blogger poll for “Least Favorite Person on the Right.”
Well, I’d quibble with the “on the Right” part…
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I’d guess that he’d win all of the first ten positions.
Oh….this is just begging for an Irish Rose diatribe.
Like it or not, McCain’s perceived by the public as on the right.
Why are Republicans so worried about getting 41 seats anyway? Is McCain going to join any filibuster on judges, Amnesty, or offshore drilling? Somehow, I doubt it.
He has always been one of my least favorite RINO’s. I think things would have been very different if all primaries had been closed, rather than allowing anyone from any or no party to vote for whomever they want. McCain wouldn’t have had a chance, and more conservatives would be running.
I was thinking exactly the same thing.
Anyone want to lay odds on who gets to be an asshole, an idiot, or a moron?
I can’t wait until McCain is so irrelevant that everyone stops talking about him.
You can’t wait until last Wednesday?
Fixed that for you.
On November 13th, 2008 at 9:42 am, Misscheryl said:
Me either. What’s going on with that Arizona recall petition on his bipartisan butt? Who’s going to run against him in the GOP senatorial primaries?
Conservatives of Arizona, I’m looking at you!
You have to at least thank him for bringing Gov. Palin out into the sunshine.
Good for Him!
Now go away.
Only because he has an R after his name.
Marco #9, good one!
Trying, trying, trying…. nope, failed to care. McCain is history.
Moving on….
On November 13th, 2008 at 9:46 am, ajmontana said:
No, that act is negated by his defecating on her reputation.
I have said since 1999 that McCain is the most dangerous politician in Washington. He is unpredictable, liberal, and has no party loyalty when it really matters, such as Border closings, tax cuts, drilling, judges, etc.
And yet, I voted for the man — but only because I agree with him more than last week’s victor.
When I gave it more thought I realized that I voted AGAINST Obama and FOR Palin. Sound strange? Too bad. That’s what happened.
And when it came to Bob Dole vs. Jimmy Carter in 2008, the people chose Carter. Let’s hope the next Reagan wears skirts and rimless glasses.
On November 13th, 2008 at 9:52 am, sonofdy said:
He is not history until he is out of the Senate and no longer destroying the country with his bipolar bipartisanship.
So, after his Leno appearance where he offered support to other unprincipled centrists like Joe Lieberman and took his own clever slap at his running mate, I wasn’t the only one who thought this.
Hey, at least he won something.
Only 5 people on the list of 25 in the poll can be considered conservatives.
MissionMcCain: Make the GOP irrelevant.
I think it’s official that conservatism has been properly defined, and will be on its way back. RINOs will have to do something they’ve been putting off for a very long time: CHOOSE SIDES! Will they move to the side of Hitler-lite? Or will they move to the side our founding fathers based this country on?
I think our first major terrorist attack will be a defining moment in this aspect.
Exactly! Though I’m not a Palin or bust fan, I think she is far more qualified than that dufus (with wiffie and mother-in-law in tow), inhabiting the white house for the next 4 years. Thank gawd everything passes, thank gawd
everything cycles.
RINOs keep swinging to the middle… America’s children are growing up not knowing what conservatives are. McAmnesty, the open border FOOL, taught this generation that conservatives don’t care about the nation’s border. How are we ever going to expect conservative values to win when we are teaching children that they don’t even exist.
MCAMNESTY IS ANTI-CONSERVATIVE AND ANTI-AMERICAN.
I think a revolution is coming. Anyone else agree? That photo on Drudge (Pelosi, Reid, Schumer) is enough to send anyone and his brother to stock up on guns and ammo.
(When dimrats are smiling, it’s a bad day for America.)
Only if they try and take our guns. In that case..it’s on.
Don’t want to go with what right of center says. Not important. Your either Conservative or your not. You either vote on the right or the left. These degrees are a media invention to enhance boring shows.
John McCain is a hero. He doesn’t deserve the Palin treatment by coward assignation . If your right of center and won’t let him go away with some dignity, Then your not right.
ErinF , I agree, been thinking that for the last few years as I watch our rights being slowly chipped away, along with the morals and principles that made this country what it is…GREAT!
McCain was what he was…he is what he is…period.
This country will never revolt as long as the people are kept fat and happy. Trouble is, the spoiled middle class of america is about to get a HUGE wake up call. You don’t know it yet, but things are looking like they could get REALLY bad in the next year. You might not even be able to buy that new ATV!!!!!
and sometimes you get that occasional blockage that requires emergency surgery…I think we are at that point…
Michael Savage at #13? Really? Shame on those bloggers! He nor Ann Coulter(#16) should be anywhere near that list.
I do love that Noonan is #3.
Sorry John. Your time is gone. Make room for those who truly believe in our Constitution.
I agree 100% with this statement.
Americans (collectively) don’t know what real suffering is. They will know soon enough, though. When everyone is equally miserable, perhaps they’ll get a clue.
Conservatives hurt themselves by demanding people take the “correct” position on every issue. McCain always was
pro life,
pro guns,
anti spending,
anti pork,
pro military,
anti lobbying special interest,
anti regulation,
pro business,
anti tax.
Don’t throw him under a bus because he’s pro amnesty. That’s a pro business position, after all.
If you demand someone agree with you 100% of the time, you won’t get a thinker, you’ll get a hack — hello Palin. As a Democrat and liberal, I beg you . . . please please nominate her for President in 2012. Guarantee Obama four more years.
I thought after DOLE/KEMP I had seen the worst “PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN EVAH”… Well, I was sure wrong, as proved by OL’ JUAN… He may be least FAV now, but he sure was the “DARLING” of the MSM… They picked him, and WE let them… You get the GOVERNMENT you deserve!!!
Oh, for heaven’s sake…
I’m willing to bet that just about every conservative who posts here held their nose and voted for McCain even though we don’t agree with him on everything, so what in the frickin hell are you talking about?
Fifty-two percent of the American electorate (and I have no doubt that you’re in this group) threw McCain under the bus… most of us did not. We are just evaluating the stain on the road. It’s called ‘learning from past mistakes.
Good, now his has this one more Accolade he can feel complete and retire. Have a nice retirement John, bye bye. Can I help you pack?
lgm, at least you and I can agree on this.
That’s the closest thing I’ve seen to an intelligent post from you since I’ve been reading this board. Wrong on some counts, but intelligent.
No. It’s indentured servitude, which is why, as an admitted liberal, you should support greater immigration controls!
LGM,
You’re on!
Palin unleashed would win every state but Ill-noise and DC.
Out!
I guess LGM still believes all the admited lies and smears about Palin.
pro abortion
pro gay marriage
pro immigration
no drilling
pro greenhouse effect
Have you been listening to Rush again? Either that or you’re watching Rove on FNC, because this sounds remarkably like their “give me/us Hillary” line.
Paul Revere, I agree that Noonan belongs at the top of the list. What a traitor to conservatism she is. I have lost so much respect for her over the last few years.
IMHO, Coulter also should not be on the list. She has the guts to say what others won’t say. The truth hurts sometimes. If it wasn’t for her pointed remarks, I fear that conservatives would lull ourselves into a false sense of security, e.g., “liberalism isn’t THAT bad!” She keeps the fires stoked for conservatism.
In the conservative fight against Rockefeller Republicans, McCain is our:
Bloody shirt of the civil rights movement.
9-11 in the war on terror.
Sputnik of the space race.
Pearl Harbor of World War II.
Game over RINOs.
Should be least favorite of the right.
I think the least favorite person on the right would be Sean Hannity, even more than Rush Limbaugh because Hannity spent the last year hammering Obama about Wright, Ayers, and the rest of the Commie Cabal.
I am not impressed with Palin as a future president.
I second that.
On November 13th, 2008 at 10:02 am, lottadawg said:
I haven’t seen anyone call him a coward. And as for me, I’m calling him a fifth columnist who collaborates with collectivists.
It’s called “having principles.”
You mean he will go away????
PLEASE GO AWAY, MCAMNESTY!
LGM is right about one thing, Palin can not win in 2012 because the press have unfairly destroyed her. They did all they could to distort lie and destroy her. They succeded.
There IS a correct position on EVERY issue. The world is not the fantasy “grey area” way of looking at things that moronic liberals think it is.
You need to update your talking points. What he did with the bailout went against half of them.
Doesn’t sound strange at all. You just described every Republican I know.
lgm…as usual gets his ‘facts’ wrong.
anti spending?
anti-regulation?
anti-tax?
What has become pretty clear is that anything “left” of Reagan-conservatism is a shade of liberalism – and liberalism in any form erodes the soul of this country (activist judges, wealth redistribution, politically correct oppression, institutionalized racism — 60,000,000 people flipped Dr. Martin Luther King the collective bird by voting for the color of a mans skin instead of judging him by his character).
lgm – don’t tell us about problems with conservatism — the problem is that it is compromised way too often.
Not surprising at all.
The “maverick” thing is crap. He undermined the party.
He won’t protect our borders and therefore, rather that side with his fellow citizens, he gets into bed with Juan and the rest of the illegals.
He won’t protect free political speech, unless you’re talking about liberal political speech.
He won’t protect energy consumers…. aka ALL OF US… because he supports cap and trade nonsense. Wait until you get your electric bill after this crap policy goes into effect.
He would rather defend and support Joe Lieberman than his own running mate. It took him 6 days to say ANYTHING about the vicious attacks on Sarah Palin. And what he did finally say was a non-statement.
He supports the bailouts in whatever form Dems conjure them up. Now look at the situation. It’s unraveling. AIG gets more… American Express lining up… Car dealers… Boat dealers… as predicted… its a corporate welfare line.
And there are so many other non-bullet point type instances where he goes against conservative principles. We’ve had enough of him and anyone like him.
The answer for the Republican Party is not to become more liberal. it to become more principled. Stick to the principles that guided this party… for a change.
Sarah Palin isn’t done, she isn’t destroyed, she has the highest approval ratings of any Republican right now 91%. Due in large part by the Nasty attacks on her by the Liberal Media, and their cohorts online. The Left needs to keep attacking her, everytime they do her ratings go up. Today, they report the reason Independents broke for McCain, was because of Sarah Palin before she joined the ticket, they had been breaking for Obama. I know I voted for her, I am an Independent.
The Far Left Looneys, are so afraid of Governor Sarah Palin, she is like Socialist Kryptonite.
lgm, you’re impressing me…your posts have gotten better. well done.
i say this, not because i’m trying to be mean to anyone, and not because i dislike palin…but seriously, she’s a trainwreck waiting to happen. And i dont want to be the guy buying the tickets to watch it.
Palin is good where she is now, running Alaska. But liberals want her to run again. They want to be able to break her down, just like they did this time.
I’ll even point to the stories this morning that the news about Palin not knowing the Africa question…is a complete hoax. Never was said, and that story has been retracted.
But not the damage it did.
She’s a good woman. She’s a good state governor. She’s not president material. And she’s forever linked to McCain. She’s not electable. Mark my words.
And lgm makes one more valid point…I hate mccain for his pro-amnesty stance. for me, thats a huge deal breaker. but his stances otherwise are at least not nearly as bad as BrObama. That’s a grain of salt to be had, if nothing else.
OT – did anyone catch the blacks beating up the gays of California because of Proposition 8 – I laughed my hiney off.
Yes SoCal. Liberals don’t see it… but it’s called…
Relativism…
Show me a person that could argue either side of an issue and feel he/she was right… and I’ll show you a liberal.
I read that somewhere.
I’d add… show me a liberal and I’ll show you a person whose “principles” change with the direction of the wind.
I said this same thing last week. Forget Palin, it doesn’t matter the reason, just move from this.
The phony liberal media was reporting prior to the election that Palin was a drag on the McCain campaign. The Rasmussen poll that came out afterwards had a different story.
Made up stories, phony polls, attacks by the left are only strengthening her standing in the national arena.
lgm, the only time republicans lose elections is when democrats tell us who to pick. read todays ann coulter column and then get back to us on allowing liberals to prescribe our candidates.
Considering the major downslide of the mainstream media (all of them suffering huge losses), it will be a different story in 4 years as to how the media will select our candidates.
Why oh why did all those Republicans vote McCain in all those closed primaries?
Remind me again how democrats did that?
Open primaries? Maybe you can pin this on the independents, but I recall the democratic primary garnering just a wee bit of interest. Doubtful any significant number of Dems wasted their primary vote voting in Republican race. But in any case, it seems to me the real turning point was Florida, which was a closed primary.
Required reading from Ted Nugent.
It’s tragic that…
1) John McCain holds the Senate seat formerly held by Barry Goldwater.
2) Senator Elizabeth Dole, who years ago fought for increased regulation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, lost her re-election battle and her Senate seat, formerly held by Jesse Helms, will now be held by a left-wing Demoncrat.
Well said.
The majority of conservatives, don’t get confused with Republicans now, admire and support the Governor of Alaska. Country Club Repub’s and the left are scared of her, wanna know why? Conservatives, average Americans, can relate to her. How she started in politics and where she is. For that I thank Juan McAmnesty.
We all know that John McCain loves being the darling of the media.I really think he took a dive during the election.Every time he was ahead in the polls he would do something really stupid.I hate to say this,but maybe in a way it was better Obama won and gets the blame for the mess going on.Look how difficult it has been to get a conservative message out with President Bush in office.I’m thankful for his protection of the country,but it always bugged me that he was so nicey,nicey and would never fight back when the media potrayed him as Hitler and the like.Look at this meeting in the oval office.Obama is in their demanding all sorts of things and he isn’t even president elect yet? What nerve!
I heard McCain was going to Georgia to support Chambliss. I yelled at the TV…NOOOOOOO….stay away
MY FRIENDSHHHHH!!
I’m easily confused.
McCains credentials were that he was a war hero.
I am grateful for his sacrifice but not sure how that qualified him to be President.
I do not want to minimize his sacrifices.
Someone like Eisenhower, yes. Organization, planning, ability to make tough choices,leadership, etc.
Not sure how being a POW for 5 years gives those credentials.
Once again, I don’t want to diminish the incredible strength McCain had to have to get through that terrible ordeal.
Underestimating Palin is foolish. She is a force to be reckoned with.
Even the New York Times is acknowledging Sarah Palin ain’t a pushover, and they tried
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/11/palins-appeal-proves-durable/
Don’t believe me…ask Frank Murkowski, Gregg Renkes and Randy Ruedrich. I promise you they wish they had never met her.
All the candidates (well at least three if you are not sure of Dear Leader) met the basic constitutional qualifications of being US citizens and 35 years of age.
It the experience issue which is in question. McCain, by his credentials, has his years as a Congressional and Senate veteran and his military service, so he should know the ins and outs of government, economic, domestic and foreign issues and the military. How he has used that information to gain knowledge and wisdom is questionable.
There, fixed it.
NATURAL
argh!
I wish we could have a shot at voting for Pat again. I didn’t realize how right he was about what was coming when he ran for president.
On November 13th, 2008 at 11:30 am, chapoutier said:
Response to chapoutier
Right on, brotha.
So true. The Far Right has this amazing ability to reject reaching out and compromise. They don’t understand that the country as a whole is moderate, center- slightly,right. If they want to close ranks, fine. We’ll keep running democrats who oppose gay marriage, are pro-guns, pro-death penalty, and offer tax cuts to the middle class. We’ll open the tent. We’ll keep winning the White House.
Let’s take a look at that list.
pro life: was considering a pro-death running mate until we hammered him. He would reach across to liberals if need be.
pro
guns2nd Amendment: We should all support it (and the Constitution).anti spending: Voted for the $850billion bailout. He supported it
anti pork: $850 billion bailout had $150 billion pork added to it before it passed. He supported it
pro military: I bet HE wished out Vet’s a happy Veteran’s Day unlike you – JERK!
anti lobbying special interest: HAHHAHHA – BS. You really are an Idiot aren’t you?
anti regulation: Of what? You mean regulating the $850 billion?
pro business: Well there is a bad thing. Business provide jobs. Should he be anti-business/anti job? Where do you come up with this crap?
anti tax: Because it is un-American to not want to be taxed into oblivion? You are not anti tax?
I guess “demanding” works as you can tell by the amount of stupid people who think Obama is the answer to the countries problems. With Obama we can expect:
pro-death
anti guns (2nd amendment/constitution)
mega spending,
mega pork,
anti military,
pro lobbying special interest,
complete regulation,
death to business,
higher tax.
WOW! I see you point. Why are we not all liberals?
Ummm..MJ – is that what you think Obama supports?
I would argue he’s none of those.
MJ, I believe lgm’s post was better than your last one. Soap did just fine. He did not personally insult lgm, he just stated his belief that ALL who believe Obama is the answer to the country’s problems are stupid.
BWAAHHHAHHAHHAAAA I am so harmed by you. Personally, I do not “hate” the guy. I think he is “The Idiot” and I think you give him a run for him money. I also know I do NOT misrepresent his position at all. He has posted enough trip, we ALL know his positions. As for wanting lgm banned – yes. He has attacked Michelle many times. I am not sure why she puts up with him but she does and we have no choice but to go after him when he posts his carp. So, in short, stuff it.
pianoman,
Well, I did call lgm “The Idiot” and a jerk. Only because he is. He refuses to thank the troops for their service or even wish our hostess happy Birth Day and in my book, that makes one a jerk. So, I thank you for your kind words but I stand by what I say about him.
Soap,
You’re welcome, and bravo.
Palin dragged mcCain’s dead campaign all the way to the finish. The 46% of the votes belong to her. It was Obama vs Palin from the time she was named. She walks the walk. Obama couldn’t walk the walk if he tried. He barely knows what he stands for.
How old are you? I can’t believe you just typed that.
What did MM have for lunch today, or is it too soon to tell?
Agreed. LGM was spot on. I just gave two cents.
Hopefully, I’ll win the next competition. *eyeroll*
I often see people rewrite history on these threads, but I do give Soap props for correcting your
liesmistake.Bingo! If McCain had chosen say – Lieberman or Rudy – we would have been talking landslide. If the RNC would have supported a Conservative/Conservative ticket we would have seen a victory. Heck, the RNC set up a web site and asked what it meant to be conservative on the issues!!!
Let the liberals wish for a Palin/? ticket and watch what happens after 4 years of being unemployed/broke does for Americans.
One more point and rant off. Christians are the biggest let down here. They can turn a blind eye to abortion and vote for a candidate who is for abortion – any time, any reason and who will not protect the life of a baby that is born during a procedure that is designed to kill it. “christians” (sure you are) who vote for a pro-death candidate will have a lot to answer for.
To quote you:
I bet he changes party now.
Wish he’d just go away.
McCain became irrelevant when he made his concession speech. Especially the part where he said we need to unite with Obama since he won. I guess he forgot that our principles didn’t change to Obamas when Obama won.
It means we need to fight harder and do more to stop Obamas mission. We need a leader who understands that and leads us that way, not McCain who capitulated. (long before the election was over.)