Posted on 11/04/2008 6:34:16 PM PST by jrooney
A special thank you to Noonan, Gerorge Will, Ron Paul, et al. Thank you fools! Thanks for putting us all in danger now from terrorists and the real suppression of conservatism. The Fairness doctrine is coming. Rampant oppression is coming. Taxes being raised is coming. Yes, the ship is now goign to be sinking for good. Obama, Reid and Pelosi will be controlling the direction of this country.
You’re welcome.
If one is going to vote for a liberal (amnesty, global warming, socialist bailout bills, etc.) why not vote for a real liberal? That’s probably what most of the moderate ‘middle’ was thinking to themselves.
If McCain would have at least came out against the bailout, I think he could have done much better.
Palin is a lightweight, and probably a net loss. I think picking her was a big mistake by McCain, as it nullified the experience argument against Obama and called McCain’s judgment into question. Same concept as before, where people probably asked themselves, ‘well, if this amateur hockey mom Palin could be president, why not Obama?’. I can’t believe anyone thinks she has a chance in 2012. She’s not presidential-level material, period.
Wishing suffering on people? How kind.
Maybe if you'd spent more time making the case for your candidate instead of bashing others, it would have helped?
And maybe if your candidate had taken more care to be conservative, or run a more intelligent campaign, or fight to prevent immigration, or whatever, he wouldn't have had such a hard time?
If you truly believe in conservatism, then perhaps it's time for you to abandon the path that lost, and join in the fight against big government and socialism, Nanny-Statism, Open Borders, etc. Or are you going to conduct yourself in the way that you complained about in others?
According to you for over the past year or so, Ron Paul is a kook who only attracted leftists and 9/11 Truthers. So how could he have helped McCain lose?
McCain has screwed the base for years.
He should have had the class to skip this run. Was he so vain that he could not see this result? That is handing over the White House to a socialist.
Absolutely terrible candidate.
You have that totally bass ackwards. Operation Chaos helped Hillary, not Obama.
Hold that thought. Win, lose or draw tonight, we need to develop a more talented, deeper and reliable bench of thinkers and the chattering classes. The crew that normally presents Republican views and defends conservative ideas sold themselves. As far as I can tell, they did that because Obama was more one of them than McCain — they certainly did not present any persuasive arguments but they did take a lot of personal potshots when cozying up to the One.
They better enjoy it while it lasts. McCain learned the hard way that his “friends” in the press liked him as long as he was bashing Bush; those same folks turned on him with a vengeance when he took on the One. Likewise, these talking heads will learn that the first time they are less than laudatory about the One, their new friends will turn on them too, and their old frinds will be gone. C’est la vie.
Your freinds are morons. You should get better.
Shut up, newby.
I’m on “the right,” and I was strongly promoting McCain/Palin. Don’t blame your friends for this. Don’t blame “the right” for this.
There's no need to cry FReepers. Just stock up on ammo and work under the table for the next 4 years.
I’m from Ohio and I proudly voted because of Palin. She did not cause this mess. She is the ONLY reason this was ever close!
Bullshit.
The CONSERVATIVES, outside of the DC cocktail circuit lined up against Hussein in a big way.
Direct your anger elsewhere, where it belongs.
PS: Go piss up a rope. It wasn’t an issue of “teaching them a lesson, or people staying home” this time. We are seeing the result of a two year national propaganda campaign on the part of the media. McCain also didn’t run the most aggressive, coherent campaign we have seen.
Sure did.
No use blaming people here for this. Blame theose who voted for Obama,
I betcha almost everyone here voted, so no use eating our own.
Let’s not forget that Dr. James Dobson of Focus on the Family and Lou Engle the charismatic lunatic and false teacher, called for Romney over McCain.
Dobson especially. A Christian called for a Mormon over McCain?
I am ashamed of all of the cr*p Christians pulled on our country this year. Engle is a nut, too, who castigates the unsaved for their sins instead of beating his own chest in intercession. Spiritual poseurs who confused the flock and got our eyes off the political landscape...
Guns don’t kill people, criminals do. Correspondents don’t lose elections, politicians do. The only person in this world who is responsible for this defeat is John McCain. Not Peggy Noonan, not George W. Bush, not Sarah Palin, and not the media; just John McCain.
Their world is about to change and not in the ways that they expect. It will change in a thousand ways that they may not even notice, but it will change. There won’t be re-education camps and there won’t be suspended elections. Those are paranoid delusions. The changes will be far more subtle and fundimental. Hang on, it’s going to be a ride.
Much blame must go to the main stream media. How many Obama voters ever read a George Will column or even know who Peggy Noonan is? It is payback time for the MSM. Unfortunately, I cancelled my New York Times subscription 12 years ago. Tomorrow I am cancelling the subscription to my local newspaper, which endorsed Obama.
I think many here will not like to face the very real fact that a more conservative ticket would have turned many people off. Noonan was right when she said that the GOP can no longer just take it for granted that their platform is the belief system of the electorate...the electorate I saw at the polls today was more like a "handout, entitlement" electorate. Blaming the messenger won't help...we have to change the electorate's worldview.
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