[sickoflibs]

RE :nathanbedford: "Where are your warnings? I already asked you once, where are your pre-election posts?"

RE :freekitty "Get real; you don’t know anymore than we do.” "

Hi fellow freepers, I get challenged and yelled at every day for thinking outside the box. I thought it would be fun to take up nathanbedford challenge and repost a few pre-election comments of mine. To put them in context, these posts were made when hysteria here was at a peak with “McCain wins or we all die” mantra. So at the time I posted these so they were not popular. Enjoy watching democrats self destruct now!SOME PRE-ELECTION POSTS :

"Republicans will be humiliated if Obama wins, rubbing our faith in Bush in our faces. But democrats party will end early next year, when for the first time in 14 years, they have no one to point at but themselves. (they will still blame Bush for all the painful things they do, but that will wear thin, maybe people will figure out they ran congress since 2007.)" 8 posted on Thursday, October 30, 2008 1:28:00 PM by sickoflibs

"On the bright (not very bright!) side, if a lib must win, let it be the worst. A Obama disaster might make people forget Bush, a huge task." (60 posted on Thursday, October 30, 2008 9:33:23 AM by sickoflibs)

"With Bush out of the picture and Obama in power, the game changes completely. People might actually expect something from rats for the first time in 14 years, for 2-3 years democrats only had to screw things up to win votes, Situation reverses. " (11 posted on Thursday, October 30, 2008 1:30:49 PM by sickoflibs)

"No, It will be the MOST fun to have a democrat in office that is so stupid (as Pelosi/Obama may be)as to think they can use the US government to silence us. I always have said, if a liberal must be in power, then better to have the dumbest one. Right now democrats and their media still have the public convinced that GWB is the evil king and there is NO congress. But when Obama is president with Pelosi and starts really stupid stuff, and we didnt even have FNC channel in 1993-94 when democrats still couldnt Hush Rush, all hell will break loose." (52 posted on Wednesday, October 29, 2008 8:43:28 AM by sickoflibs)

LOL. Obama only has one thing going for him, like MSNBC: Bush. With Bush gone the magic spell will disappear and the NEW Stalin (a bit of an exaggeration, Stalin was a mass murderer) will not have a public that wants to be ruled. 9 posted on Thursday, October 30, 2008 9:38:52 AM by sickoflibs

Don’t misunderstand me. Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Frank, Dodd, Shumer... will be terrible for this country. But if someone had to loose this year to pay for Bush’s big government establishment sins, I just assume it be McCain, Mr Phony, BS, reformer, Maverick, no beliefs, any deal is possible, McCain. When McCain ran with us conservatives, he pulled ahead, when he dumped us, he dropped. We were lectured for 8 years he would get all independents and media. Guess what? I think McCain loss will be the seed of a rebirth of conservativism. Lets not blow it it this time. Resistance 2009! Wednesday, October 22, 2008 10:48:12 PM by sickoflibs

[RSmithOpt]

Conservatism is based upon experience and truth and what really works....knowing the nature of mankind, acceptance of reality and the Word of God molds a humble and intelligent person to the conservative opinion.

Therefore, taking the heat of criticism isn't nearly as difficult as a warm fuzzy libtard explaining his/her opinion with their own words and reasoning.

Still this country is in for a very rough ride.

Freegards......

[spetznaz]

It is always easier for Dems to criticize when someone else is in power ...after all, all that it requires is to point a finger and twirl it around while 'tsk tsking.' However, when you take the top-seat, suddenly you have to perform and deliver. That takes effort and real work, and even under the best of circumstances is not as easy as pointing fingers and calling someone Chumpy.

To Dems: Be careful what you wish for.

[nathanbedford]

Well done sickoflibs!

You accurately predicted in writing the resilience and resourcefulness of the American people when their liberties are threatened. I accurately predicted in writing the breadth and depth of the power grab which Obama would mount. I failed to credit in writing the people with enough resilience and I overweighted the institutional power aligned against us. I think you under weighted the sheer greed and rapaciousness for power of the Obama administration. One could say that we both got part of it wrong.

I prefer to say that between the two of us we got it perfectly right. :)

[lakertaker]

When McCain got the nomination I knew we would get a Dem president. I remember Hannity pushing McCain and trying to convince us he would be the next Goldwater.

Yet a year earlier Hannity was going after McCain for his attacks on conservatives.

Limbaugh, at least, acknowledged that McCain as president with a Dem congress would be bad for conservatism.

[bamahead]

I may want to borrow your crystal ball sometime! :)

[mountainbunny]

I said much the same thing, and refused to vote for McCain. I stand by that decision, and all of the sentiments similar to yours that I expressed at the time.

What I did not foresee and what I'm not sure anyone could foresee what that the Republicans wouldn't see the error of their ways.

I felt fairly confident last year that the GOP would understand why they lost and would do what they had to do to make it work next time. I thought they were capable of internalizing the lessons, and coming out stronger.

That confidence was apparently misplaced. The GOP has to have ideas, they have to put forth solutions, they have to do more than simply react to whatever the Democrats are doing. So far, nothing cohesive, nothing clear, nothing united.

That is the one part of the puzzle that everyone who is crowing about how badly the Democrats are doing and comparing this to 1994 and the Republican Revolution, or Reagan after Carter seem to be missing: Newt Gingrich and Co. had a cohesive plan. Ronald Reagan had a cohesive plan and knew how to present it.

Reagan, Gingrich, et. al knew what they wanted to do, were clear about their intentions, and voters understood that. They weren't reactive; they weren't simply complaining - they had a clear message of smaller government.

No one today in the GOP clearly delivers that message, much less an organized group similar to 1994.

Until that happens - until the GOP gets its act together and its head out of the sand, I'm not sure it matters how bad Obama & Co. are.