Posted on 11/06/2008 5:49:40 PM PST by DocT111
Barack Obama is president-elect of the United States because the Republican Party and John McCain handed him the presidential election on a silver platter.
The Republican Party and the Bush White House walked away from Republican ideals, and they walked away from Republican values.
George Bush allowed the Republican Congress to overspend in the first six years of his administration without once using the veto pen; he blindsided the conservative Republican members of Congress on many occasions, and walked away from the base of his party on immigration reform and other issues such as Medicare and No Child Left Behind.
He refused to sit down and break bread with the conservative members of his own party on Capitol Hill, yet believed that he could break bread with the liberal Democrats in Washington the way he did with the Democrats in Austin, Texas. And when he discovered it didn't work in Washington, it failed to stop him from trying and trying and trying over again what was obviously impossible.
Finally, the coup de grace was Dick Cheney's endorsement of John McCain in the waning days of the campaign, which gave Barack Obama the final nail to put in the coffin of McCain's campaign, which was striving mightily to distance him from the Bush administration.
Then there was McCain's campaign itself. It was the worst campaign since Bob Dole's on the Republican side, and the best campaign since Ronald Reagan’s on the Democrat side.
The McCain campaign was a campaign out of the 20th century, while the Democrats were running a campaign in the 21st century.
We need to understand that this was not a referendum on Reaganomics and Ronald Reagan. This was a referendum on George Bush, and Bush-ism, and Bush’s lack of leadership.
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“PURGE THE GOP OF ALL RINOS AND MODERATES!”
Isn’t this a redundent statement? :-)
Moderates and rino’s are the same in my book.
But I agree completwly.
Yup.
My short list ping
Interesting.
We had Palin here and got 20,000.
We had McCain here and couldn't get 5,000.
Looked like McCain was going to sleep most of the election.
Palin was like, a hockey mom.
As I end my day, I again remember that I believed John McCain had NO chance from the beginning. His own liberal ideals, combined with Bush low approval, spelled doom. Economic decline in the country was just an added hurdle.
“0” ran a better campaign and only because of the selection of Palin did any enthusiasm begin.
Now our team members are helping to tear her down.
I say “John get out there and stop this from your employees or volunteers. You lost but you are not done and are still in charge of the campaign staff”!
The conservative message did not lose, so we all need to help ourselves reorganize and begin again.
If you really want to be ill go look at the results of the votes on the California ballot proposiyions. All the conservative issues won!
DUMP ALL RINOs. Let's start again.
I'd argue that a lot of these "Christian" folks knew about Obama's record and stand... and voted for him anyway.
From “The Second Coming” by W.B. Yeats
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
McCain’s inability or refusal to corral his people over these Palin smear rumors are proving he never had the tools to lead.
No, that’s actually the small silver lining in all this mess. Hopefully Prop 8 will hinder Hussein’s plan to institute perverted marriage nationwide.
President-elect Barack Obamao is the Bush/GOP legacy.
Truth is, I voted for Sarah Palin and even donated money to their campaign. And McCain rewarded me with a disgraceful campaign while he helped the people who robbed America and my retirement and investments along with my real estate business. He promised we "would know their names" and I hoped he meant it. He lied.
Bob Dole made me give up being a Republican and his wife reminded me why by running an equally abysmal campaign and giving her Senate seat to the dems. Worthless.
I don't know if the Republican party is worth saving. It isn't to me. They spent like the demonrats they ran against and more and now have given the government away to people who promise to be even worse. McCain has intensified my dislike for him beyond what I thought possible. To top it off, the "hero" and his girly men now do their best to blame Sarah Palin for their failings, doing whatever they can to tarnish her now and for the future. Some hero. I was wrong to try so hard to get him elected and if, in my efforts to do so I offended people here, I apologize.
So you want to go RINO hunting! Sounds good. Michelle Malkin, Laura Ingrham and Ann Coulter are ready to join the safari.
We must clean them out. John Warner is gone!!!
Guess we’ll have to divert the Alpheus and the Peneus rivers. The Fifth Labour of Heracles.
Thanks for the post.
Perhaps these thoughts will add some spice to the debate:
I’ve long considered that DubYah’s most serious mistake occurred on Day One of his Presidency:
Namely, that he did not root out and fire or otherwise rid the Federal government of each and every Clntoon appointee/hiree that he and his Administration could ID and find!
The precedent was set by the Clintoons— you will recall their summarilaly firing all 93 Attorneys General and the White House Travel Office staff?
Sure, there would have been howls of outrage FRom the Democrat/Marxist/Socialist Bastards who seek to transform (Can you say “Change We Need?”) America into a Third World Bananna Republic.
IMHO, the furor would have died down long before the 2002 election, as did Clintoons’ AG caper.
Having wormed their way into the Executive Branch and Federal bureaucracy before the Clintoos left WDC, Clintoon’s water carriers were very, very successful in dooming his Presidency, right From the Get-Go.
I think DubYah is a good man, who meant/means well.
Howsomever, (1.) between the former Clintoon appointees/hirees who (a.) leaked all manner of confidential/secret information to a very hostile lamestreeam media and; (b.) fired multiple torpedos at his ship and; (2.) DubYah accepting WAY TOO MUCH REALLY, REALLY BAD ADVICE FRom the long time Inside the Evil Beltway appartchiks, he made some REALLY, REALLY BAD decisions that have/will cost America in ways we cannot yet fully understand.
NOBama and NOBiden were the result, and America will be a much poorer, much less wealthy and MUCH LESS FREE nation because of it.
I’ll wager that NOBama and NOBiden don’t make that mistake: They’ll very quickly rid themselves of the Bush appointees/hirees.
Any takers?
PS What we Conservative have to hope for, Pray for and work for is that the NOBama/NOBiden/NOPelosi/NOReid cabaal make a series of non-fatal (to the USA) mistakes between now and the 2010 election. The arrogant “folks” who are taking over the reins of governemnt will, hopefully, sufficiently p!ss of the American electorate to the point that Real Conservatives will be able to take the House and Senate away FRom them.
We must do all we can do to ensure that the enemies of the Real America do not get a large head start on their Anti-American Agenda and, thus, do not prevail in the 2010 mid-term election.
IOW, fight them at every step of the way!
SCREW BI-PARTISANSHIP!
WHEN ONE COMPROMISES WITH EVIL, ONE LOSES!
THIS IS ONE BATTLE WE’D BEST NOT LOSE!
Taking the House and Senate back in 2010 and destroying the NOBama/NOBiden/NOPelosi/NOReid cabaal would be some legacy to leave to our children and grandchildren, would it not?
My Pastor voted for NOBama/NOBiden!
I’m actively seeking another church to join.
They do think he is the 2nd coming!!!
[Mrs T]
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