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One of our problems too is that Rush defended GWB long after GWB was beyond any help to conservatives.

Everyone on the conservative side defended GWB to try to get more Republicans elected. I'm not going to turn on Rush. He's been one consistent voice for defining conservatism. He's one of the good guys.

I'm not saying he and he alone would make the difference. We need more voices in TV media. That would help a lot. But, we can at least begin to recognize what's been going on with the Obama campaign and start adjusting OUR tactics. O and his supporters are still campaigning along with the media.

One of our problems too is that Rush defended GWB long after GWB was beyond any help to conservatives.

I understand the frustration at the President (and that is how I will refer to him until he is no longer so); I too have experienced it for his not-conservative-enough tendencies...especially in the second term.

But what some seem to forget, especially one “dog” on this thread, is that unlike Mr. McCain, President Bush is three for three in this running for President thing...one primary, and two presidential elections. Whereas Mr. McCain is one for three - lost a primary, won a primary, and lost an election.

And some of the workers on the latter’s losing campaign worked on the winning campaign of the former.

And one final word about someone dogging out those who disapproved of someone who so honorably served this country...no one disputes his service, and his time of being a POW. In fact, his Hanoi imprisonment was mentioned about as many times as was Lurch’s much briefer time in Vietnam on his Sgt. Pepper’s Purple Hearts Club Band tour.

But being a war hero, or someone who served in wartime, is not an automatic ticket to the White House; in the last 40 years, only two wartime servicemen have occupied the White House - and of those two (Ford and Bush 41), only one was elected to get there. Heck, a deserter beat two WW2 vets in the 1990s...

I will echo what a radio host said around the time of the Gang of 14...John McCain: Great American, marginal conservative, terrible Republican. Someone said upthread that a caller to Rush suggested the next time McCain reaches across the aisle, he should just sit down over there, where he belongs.

My vote was for Mrs. Palin, and she, along with Mr. Mac’s courageous service in the military, combined for my utter loathing of the Left, is the only reason I voted for him at all.