I’m sorry Chet. You just posted the polls. I don’t include you in the bullybunch
Some here went way beyond just chin up into outright boorishness and defiance of continuous objective proof put right under their very noses that refuted their zany claims
like I’ve said before, continuing to struggle and even to give big bucks is a sign of more character than just shouting down everyone and slinging false accusation right and left and wishing a fantasy come true
I can and will prove to the dozen or so folks here who know me personally how I continued to participate in this election all of October while even though very concerned and somewhat less than optimistic after the late September polls crashed, I ask any of the bullies to pony up with proof of what they did besides bully
it was perfectly reasonable here during the month of September to say we were in trouble and needed to gin up turnout and donations for campaign ads and yes to speculate that maybe the polls weren’t off as much as some here insisted...and to challenge cherry picked polls
lots of otherwise decent looking newbies who might well have been potential freepers took the the hills after getting smacked around here
myself, I’ve been here a long time....survived a one year banning over amnesty...I’m used to it
but i ain’t fergetting
there is nothing gained when FR become a shout down echo chamber
I mean, damn man...the battleground Red state fights were proof enough we were fighting uphill
anyhow, now we get to fight for control of the GOP...a fight far more bloody to be sure than the election squabbles we had here
and about damned time too ain’t it?
we are either gonna be conservative or be the new Whigs.
I also donated up until the end.
I agree that there was just some plain craziness on here toward the end, with supposed “internal poll” leaks showing the race tied in California.
I kind of knew the whole internal poll thing was something of a smoke screen anyway when McCain’s pollster said their internals showed the races in battlegrounds to be a “functional tie”, which he later defined to be within the margin of error.
As for the direction of the party, wow.. what might that be? No one can seem to agree on that, what with social cons, fiscal cons, neocons, Green Granola Cons... a big tent at each other’s throat. The various contradictions held together during the 80’s, united in response to the soviet threat, in the 90’s united in response to Clintonism, and 2000s in response to the War on Terror/Iraq. Now, there is nothing to unify the various factions. And some factions just want to run the others out of the party entirely. The Dems seem to do better as a party of contradictions and competing interests.