Posted on 11/05/2008 6:14:07 AM PST by Big Guy and Rusty 99
Well, the election is over. I am disappointed in the American people that they would buy the empty-suit kool-aid of a man with 183 days of experience. We knew that it would be a rough road to the White House. We lost. Life goes on.
Now Conservatives are in the wilderness. The only good thing we have going is that there is not a rubber stamp congress and that we can block legislation still. Also, that smug jackass, Al Franken, won't be a senator. We can not be bitter and we can not hang our heads in defeat. We must fight.
How did we get here? Frankly, Senator McCain is a war hero but as exciting as a dead fish as a presidential candidate. This is Bob Dole all over again. The only thing that McCain has over Dole is that he didn't refer to himself in the third person or sound like Simon Barsinister. Sarah Palin energized us but scared people with inexperience in executive office. They were not ready for on the job training if something happened to a President McCain. Then again, they voted for a man who has only slightly more executive experience then I do.
The main reason we lost was the media. They framed the entire campaign. They controlled the facts and the perspective. The media came out in full force to back their messiah with all the enthusiam of a midget orgy. Sadly, McCain hardly had a chance. The other reason we did not win was that the money wasn't there. Barack ran a blitzkrieg of fundraisers, so that he could swamp the media with his ads. For every ten ads I saw for Obama, I saw one for McCain. It wasn't really that America rejected our message, it was that they didn't hear it.
So what do we do now? Now is not the time to embrace nihlism. We must organize and build a grass roots campaign like we did during the Carter years. The seeds we sowed during the late 1970's were reaped in the form of President Reagan during the 1980's. We went off message with President Bush's campaign in 1992 and were sent off into the corn fields again. We must organize our message and hold on to it.
Our main problem is the media. The only way to get our message out is to take down the liberal media. How? Boycotting the media itself does not help. We must go to its lifeblood which is advertising. We need have an army of people from all conservative groups knit together to call and threaten the liberal media's advertising with boycotts. If we take away their money, they can not function. They are already hurt, let's finish the job. Let's find out the network's advertisers and call them. we must all work together.
Now is not the time to sulk. We need to clean off our wounds and fight. This is just a battle. This is not the War. The fight goes on.
- A.G.H.
Learn to spell check, Big Guy.
damnit!
Freadheads got us here. Fred gave South Carolina to McCain which gave him momentum going into Florida, which gave him Super Tuesday. Without Fredheads, we would have had Romney for our candidate.
We ended up with a Dole/Clinton campaign redux.
Standing rule here is if the very first word of the title is misspelled, the article doesn’t get read.
I agree that McCain was only a “placeholder” candidate.
so we rebuild. I am really tired of this sort of end of the world mentality. This is a battle, not the war.
It’s over. We have a country where 50% of people pay no income tax. This # will blossom once the illegals are granted citizenship with benefits. Congrats America!
We now have a closet Muslim in the White House, and Jeremiah Wright will be sleeping in the Lincoln bedroom.
is there anyway I can edit it?
Another too old white guy.
So who next for the G.O.P.?
Maybe another very old white guy who has hung around too long with few good ideas?
I find your lack of faith disturbing. We were closer to naked faschism with FDR and Woodrow Wilson than we are right now. We need to pick up, organize and get ready for the next fight.
You can ask the moderator to change it by pinging him to the thread.
Typo, ya' think? Naah!! The "d" and "t" keys are some distance apart. Spell check? Maybe as a last resort!!
BS! Open primaries got us here. We need closed primaries only.
I think that damfool Iowans got us here- it's where the 12th Imam got his groove on, and where the Huckser totally f'd up the field. I will admit that Fred's fabian campaign completed the mess on the GOP side.
Very Well said, I for one have the intention of creating a congressional/Media watchdog group, with a series of blogs,
and live air time on radio to air our views, in such a way, that not even Saul Alinsky laws can stop it.
God Bless All Freepers and thier Families.
sorry, working and posting. The good news is that I can walk and chew gum at the same time.
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