Posted on 11/06/2008 4:54:50 PM PST by rabscuttle385
Former Governor and U.S. Senator George Allen issued the following statement today, congratulating Barack Obama for being elected the 44th President of the United States.
“Congratulations to President-elect Barack Obama, his family and his team in winning a phenomenal and historic election. I strongly believe his grandmother in spirit enjoyed his massive, exciting victory. Thank you also to Sen. McCain, his family and his team who fought hard in an exceedingly tough political climate. The people – the owners of the government – have spoken in their States. We must respect the decision of the voters.
“Challenges remain ahead for America to improve opportunities for all. The prescriptions and decisions to rejuvenate our economy, improve our competitiveness, achieve energy independence and keep our nation secure will need action. Rather than engage in recriminations about political processes, voters, polls and pundits, I believe common-sense conservatives need to advance the ideas and solutions that motivate and inspire people for our principles that have a practical, positive impact on people’s lives. To address the challenges facing Americans, we must Start our Creative Engines!
“As always, stay strong for Freedom!”
Congrats Macaca. LOL
I was going to offer a Macaca comment of my own. Yours is more civil. It would have been helpful to have control of the Senate.
Are all of these people just trying to get a job??? For pete’s sake!! Do we all have to now pretend bambi is not a deceptive snake??
Tell me one rat who was ever gracious to Bush on his
(re)elections!!
Nope. This is just a one-time “congrats” from Allen. He would never set foot near a job working for Hussein.
And he was unfairly screwed over re: that Macaca statement.
I’ve got no problem with a generic congratulations, which he uses as an intro for a pitch to return to conservative values.
Give the man his props and then it’s “Game on” all in the same paragraph.
It takes two to tango. I don't think the dem leadership is going to ask us out to the dance floor. They probably will mug us in the bathroom
To address the challenges facing Americans, we must Start our Creative Engines!
Woohoo !!!!
That’s right. We’ll say the minimal platitudes, then we need to plan the eventual liberation of our homeland. That’s essentially what it amounts to. Currently, we are the Resistance.
I miss George Allen.
Am I the only one who thinks Allen can and will stage a comeback? (The Macaca bit was, afterall, so minor)
Class act.
Contrast that to the screaming rants, death threats and ugly lefty screeds when President Bush went into office.
Contrast that to the democrat congressman who added to the difficulties:
2001
“QUESTION: Mr. Gephardt, three times yesterday you refused to call Mr. Bush a legitimate president. I have two questions: Why? And second, why should the American people believe that you will work with this man when you question his legitimacy.
Senator Daschle, do you consider Mr. Bush a legitimate president?
And perhaps the president-elect would like to comment on your answers.
BUSH: Yes, is my answer.
(LAUGHTER)
GEPHARDT: Well, a little later today I believe, and maybe it’s already happened, the electors are going to elect George W. Bush to be the next president of the United States, and I believe on January 20, not too many steps from here, here’s going to be sworn in as the next president of the United States. I don’t know how you can get more legitimate than that.”
No class.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/showtransition2001.php?fileid=bush_congress12-18
Interesting side note. Aunt Zeituni appears to have gone missing.
They never would have offered a Congratulations on such a gracious, big hearted level, if McCain had won, but would have been rioting in the streets!
Because they a lowlifes.
Our side has class, morals and managnimity.
We are held to a higher moral standard.
What do you EXPECT George Allen to say? We got our butts kicked and George Bush brought us down into the ash heap. Now it is no way but UP, and we have to rebuild just as Allen said. I put my money on Sarah Palin for now (if she comes clean on immigration, and intimates she had no choice but to go along with the "God's Children" nonsense because she was on McCain's ticket.)
Look, there will be plenty of time to undermine Obama, obstruct him in the Congress, filibuster if possible, but that does not mean we dont have to eat a little crow for a couple of days here, and go through the ceremonial bipartisan "congratulations" that BIG PEOPLE have the heart and spirit to offer.
We can have a big, orchestrated smile on our face and an outstretched hand, all the while seething in disgust and getting our ducks in a line to knock this guy out in 2012. I am sure this is what Ronald Reagan would have done.
We haven't seen much of that in the last 2 presidential elections.
“We are better than the Democrats.”
You are right. We don’t put people in the White House who state “the constitution is fundamentally flawed”
We don’t put people in the WH who have ties to the most violent and extreme Communist Radical organizations in the nation.
The list goes on and on.
The man won.
You dont need to convince ME that the whole thing just plain SUCKS.
I sure hope so! He was my #1 choice going into this election. He spoke at our State Convention and energized the crowd more then anyone I have ever seen here.
Allen is a decent guy doing a decent thing here.
Any chance he would run for governor again next year? Every time a Democrat is president, Republicans win the governorship in VA. Though with the trends there I hope it is not over for Republicans. Clinton and Carter couldn’t take the state, but 0bama did? Scary.
“I strongly believe his grandmother in spirit enjoyed his massive, exciting victory.”
What about the spirit of his deceased parents? Were they not afforded the same opportunity as grandma? I noticed Hussein only acknowledged his grandmother looking over as well. Apparently Hussein, like Allen and some others, believe the spirit lurks around for only a short while before it moves on to other dimensions where it can no longer look over earthly things. Whatever their reasons, I thought at the least it was a diss of his mother to not mention her looking over as well.
I know, it’s nitpicking and totally not relevent. It’s just something that I find interesting about people and their beliefs regarding spirits.
Macaca?
Absolutely nothing. He's not an elected official, he's a private citizen.
No wonder why the GOP is circling the drain. Why even make a statement? Glad that Allen lost his seat. He would’ve been another new toner like GWB.
None. The Attorney General, Bob McDonnell, will be the nominee. And, yes, it is very scary that VA supported the Marxist pig. Rodentscum has spread into NOVA like a malignant cancer (like a Baja Maryland) and has had a dreadful effect in just a couple of election cycles.
The word sounds just on its face fairly close to “$hithead,” and he should’ve avoided its usage like the plague. But it would aptly be applied to our current Marxist dictator-select.
I have always thought conservatives had more grace. Look at what John Ashcroft did when the scummy liberals took advantage of his decision to suspend his campaigning out of respect for Carnahan’s husband who died in a plane crash and “appointed” his widow campaigning the sympathy vote for all it was worth. Ashcroft could have and should have challenged the election, but did not out of simple decency and character.
Personally, I am appalled at some of the discussion I have seen here on Free Republic regarding the adoption of “Rules for Radicals”. It simply disgusts and horrifies me.
Liberals have an excuse for their adoption of that scummy tripe...they have no morals, and they lack character.
If I hear much more of that, I am out of here.
“What do you EXPECT George Allen to say?”
The truth.
What a sad day in American history that we have elected a man because of the color of his skin rather than the content of his character. We are now on a pathway to socialism and our founding fathers must be rolling in their graves.
There. A little hard truth would be a nice change indeed!!
So was former Governor Reagan in 1980.
Conservatives are watching, George! Have a Maccaca Day!
Well, maybe not to you, but anything that has “-caca” in it sounds like poop, and it sounded to me like that when the story broke. A Republican should’ve known better than to utter a strange word because the rodent propaganda arm known as the media was ready to pounce (hell, the retarded loon about to become Vice-Dictator could’ve called the Indian a $hithead outright and it all would’ve been laughed off by them, simply because he’s a rodent). Did he deserve to lose the Senate seat over it ? Of course not. Look at the scum that beat him. A psychotic, anti-Semitic, racist, Socialist, low-rent Nabokov. But hey, that’s better than saying “macaca.” If there’s any evidence why this country is so f’d up, look no further. And I was looking forward to supporting Allen for President this year, too...
Huh ? RR was an actively engaged Presidential candidate, and ultimately President-elect in 1980. Allen is not running for any office (and quite possibly might not run again). As I said, a private citizen who needed make no statement pro or con.
Or how about this...
“Oh posterity,
You will never know how much it cost us to preserve your freedom. I hope that you will make a good use of it.
If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven that I ever took half the pains to preserve it.”
John Adams
(a real republican)
"Don't get angry. Get even."
I still say we dont need to stoop to the sewage level of the Democrats at this time, but take the high road and really take them to the electoral woodshed in 24 month's time, running against a horrible, disappointing Obama record. We might take both houses!!)
Fine. Whatever. Your mileage varies.
George W. Bush and George Allen and John McCain and Sarah Palin have all shown the utmost class in this difficult circumstance.
A guy like Obama (yes, he is socialist and they know it!) lies to the American people, deceives his way into the Oval Office, and they congratulate him.
COMPARE THEIR REACTIONS TO THE HATE-FILLED VITRIOL SHOWN TO THE TWO VICTORIES OF G.W. BUSH. The losers wouldn’t even concede the night of the election, and said nothing but nasty things about the people’s choice.
There is a huge difference between the parties: not just in policies, but in behavior and morals.
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Republicans are light years (or they should be) ahead of Democraps on the issues of morals and ethics and integrity.
What Ronald Reagan would have done is often my yardstick.
In that sense, W and Allen and McCain and Palin are probably more in line with it. For a few days we can afford to be high ground moral types and suck it up; there will be plenty of time to go for the Democrap juglar over the next 24 months, believe me!
We ALL need a break!!
Our Founding Fathers didn’t cover up their huge differences with polite rhetoric.
They had the GUTS to STAND UP AND FIGHT!!!
Where have our “leaders” gone???
////What do you EXPECT George Allen to say? ////
Nothing
I’m not sure if he will try to make a comeback, but I sure hope he does....
Its not just NoVa that caused Virginia to go to the dark side. Tidewater, Hampton Roads, and Virginia Beach have leaned left lately. Bush ran strong strong in these areas. Unfortunately, so did Kaine, Webb, and Obama. For now, I am hoping for more bad Dow days. Maybe having -200 Dow days on a regular basis will snap people out of Obama-mania. The sheeple will get what they deserve.
Fieldmarshaldj and Truthguy have it right. There's no need for Allen to issue a "statement" saying a damn thing about the election since he's a private citizen. Conservatives should not pat Obama on the back or offer Obama an olive branch after what the Dems did to GWB for the last eight years. The RATS instantly proclaimed Bush was an illegitimate pretender to the presidency and gave him hell for the next eight years. I won't stoop to their level of ranting about "stolen" elections if I don't get my way, but I fully intend to show Obama as much "respect" as they showed GWB. This is war. Playing nice with the commies just results in more commies winning election.
On a related note, I never understood what so many freepers saw in the milquetoast George Allen. Here's a guy who was struggling to win re-election in his own state, and a bunch of freepers were proclaiming he was a shoe-in nationwide (their entire stragedy relied on the idea that George would be "guaranteed" to "beat Hillary", who they insisted would automatically be the Dem nominee no matter what... just as George didn't need to actually campaign for re-election because he was "guaranteed" to "steamroller" Jim Webb no matter what) Fred Thompson, I can understand, he had a successful track record of winning in TN and a great image with voters from being in movies like Die Hard and Hunt for Red October, and would have theoretically been a strong contender if he had jumped into the race from the start. But George Allen? The savior of the GOP? C'mon people.
I will. This election WAS stolen. I don't view it as legitimate in the least. How many millions of votes were illegal in key states ? A media that gave him an assist worth a fortune, a popular culture that did the same, and at least $1 billion spent (a good chunk of it illegally and from questionable sources) to buy the election. Nope, it wasn't fair in the most remote way. A fixed sideshow.
"milquetoast George Allen"
Yeah, a real milquetoast. I remember when he uttered the phrase, "I'm gonna knock their (liberals) soft teeth down their whiny throats." Allen's "crime" was that he made a silly faux pas with a phrase and ran a lousy reelection campaign. I think the real problem was that he probably shouldn't have served in the Senate. He was one of those examples of somebody better suited to serving as a Chief Executive rather than a Senator. I'm rather torn on the Governorship of VA permitting just a single term. The dynamic there might've been different had that been changed after the 1960s.
I’ve heard he might do just that.
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