Posted on 11/06/2008 10:22:53 AM PST by TheRogueRepublican
McCain rips repubs throughout the election and didn't attack BO. Now that he got his clocked cleaned...his aides are out trying to destroy Palin.
With him sitting on the sidelines not saying a thing, he is showing his true colors. Country First my ass....he is trying to keep his own legacy a float by letting this happen. This shows his true political cowardice.
I am a conservative through and through. The only reason that I decided to support McCain is the addition of Palin to his ticket. She is a conservative and it scares the Dems and the RINOS.
It is time to take this party back and start fighting for keeps. I am tired of bringing knives to gunfights.
I’ve been a Republican for 30 years now, since my first election (Reagan). I’ve threatened to leave, and most of my family has gone Constititonal or Amerian Independent, (depending on the state). This is basically the Puritan v. Pilgrim debate. Sarah actually set the model for how to behave inside the party: open mouth, start speaking truth.
I agree McCain wasn’t hard enough on Obama. He tried to be nice to them and Obama’s thugs saw that as weakness.
But I vehemently disagree as to the ‘why’. I believe it was out of a misplaced sense of honor. I do not think McCain is a coward, politically, or otherwise. I don’t believe he’s afraid of anything.
They got exactly the candidate they wanted. They got exactly the party platform they demanded. The campaign was run exactly the way they insisted it be run.
How'd that end up working out for us, again...?
They actually managed to lose to a one-term Senate Marxist with open and unapologetic terrorist ties. The ONLY thing I want to hear from Team McCain or any of its shrill little online apologists, from this day forward, is a meek and contrite: "We're sorry."
They have nothing else worthwhile what. so. EVER. to contribute to any meaningful discussion, re: either conservatism or winning electoral strategies.
It was the late-added presence of SARAH which energized an otherwise moribund and apathetic conservative voting base.
It was SARAH who drew record-shattering crowds, everywhere she went on behalf of a sour and ungrateful McCain campaign.
Friendly little word of warning to any/all RINOs out there reading this, and thinking about standing in the way between this woman and the conservative base that adores her, anytime during the next four years:
You're expendable to us. SHE isn't.
Conservatives saw through the veil that the RNC tried to hide. McPain doesn’t nor will ever represent the face of the Republicans. He’s like Specter, a RAT wearing a PUB title.
You can’t be nice when you’re at war, and campaigning is war. It’s not being concillatory in the Senate.
Another lesson for the future.
I have to agree.
Shame on you Senator McCain.
Whomever is responsible for this smear campaign needs to be fired and never allowed to work in a Republican campaign again!
Look, you can say McCain is no conservative and you can say he ran a poor campaign, but he's no coward. McCain actually fought a tough fight under difficult circumstances. With a lot less money and facing the Obama juggernaut, it would have taken a miracle for McCain to pull this out. It didn't help that many Republicans voted for Obama and many conservatives stayed home on election day. Even with picking Sarah Palin, the Religious Right didn't come out for McCain. Throw into that mix, an unpopular Pres Bush and the WallSt crash, and what you have is a perfect political storm working against McCain's best efforts.
If the GOP picks another moderate to run for POTUS in 2012, the same thing will happen again.
Doesn’t he come up for re-election in a couple of years? How delicious it would be to help Arizona elect a TRUE Republican to replace him! Let’s move to Arizona!
I voted for him for President as the “lesser of two evils”. Sarah Palin made it much easier.
The only reason that I decided to support McCain is Obama.”
True that.
Those are not GOP attacks. Those are RINO surrogates expressing their fear of Palin. It would be better if we could purge the party of the RINOs and then energize and grow the base.
I disagree; McCain was a long shot at best. I will not trash McCain. Without his bold choice, we would never had gotten Sarah. For that he is to be congratulated. But for the future he will no longer a Presidential player. Sarah is the future of the conservative movement.
Now, quit posting vanities
No.
You don’t forgive a traitor. The reason why conservatives keep losing is that we have never taken care of the “moderates” in NYC/DC that keep stabbing us in the back.
It is time to recognize the facts: We will never have “another Reagan” as long as we allow these traitors and back-stabbers to exist. One of the highest priority tasks to re-creating a conservative political movement is to destroy our enemies. And the enemies who are most dangerous are the ones who you think are your friends, but who stab you in the back when you’re not looking.
Cowards are dangerous people. They’re forced as a result of being cowards to strike with maximum force, because they’re naturally scared of retaliation. Cowards such as McCain’s staff need to be exposed and destroyed.
How exactly is that going to happen? Bush is the leader of the Shamnesty movement, and McCain won the party nomination.
I'm done. I'd rather just vote for GOP members I agree with than to throw good money after bad when the RNC hits me up because I am a member.
What a LOSER.
They plot and act to destroy Palin while not attacking 0bama who plots to destroy the Constitution. Yeah, that makes sense.
I posted several times during the last few weeks that McCain’s ego is bigger than Palin’s popularity.
I am sure it grated on him that she was drawing tens-of-thousands while he was drawing only hundreds.
I made a comment in the live thread about the seeming awkward body language between McCain and Palin during his concession speech. And I thought it strange that she was not given the opportunity to address the crowd.
That spoke volumes; yet, many deny the recent reports of tensions between the McCain factions and Palin factions.
I posted weeks ago that, if they did win, McCain would marginalize VP Palin to obscure VP duties. I re-affirm my assertion.
Now, we are seeing a full-fledged war developing between the country-club big-business globalist faction and the conservative faction of the GOP. Too bad it didn’t happen after the 2006 slaughter.
Giving their gossip more publicity and attention IS EXACTLY WHAT THEY WANT.
They will be hired by others, no problem.
This is inside baseball to the public, all they hear is the hurtful propaganda against Republicans.
Conservatives will have to beat the the RINOs politically to have any power, and right now we don't have that power.
Concentrating on exposing Hussein and his MSM to the public should be our only missions.
ATTENTION!
Please, everyone who is as offended by this load of crap as I am, and if you contributed to the McCain Compliance Fund, demand a refund!
I contacted them this morning, expressing my frustration with the latest turn of events, and demanded a full and immediate refund of my $100 contribution. They are providing a refund.
HIT THEM WHERE IT HURTS!
The contact is Susan Nelson, National Finance Director, at snelson@mccain08hq.com.
This is disgraceful and petty!
(Sorry for multiple posts in multiple threads, but I’d rather post in each one than start a vanity.)
5 posted on Thursday, November 06, 2008 1:55:53 PM by AnglePark
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