Posted on 11/06/2008 9:28:18 PM PST by beagleone
For weeks I referred to him as Digger O'Dell, the Friendly Undertaker, on the old Fred Allen radio show.
His boring, flat commentaries stirred no excitement, no hope, no inspiration for the Republicans. Everyone seems to like this little Pilsbury Dough-boy.....but I remember he stood at the right hand of Bush for two terms advising him. His advice helped and probably caused disaster after disaster in the Bush years, including the virtual breakdown of the GOP.....not to mention the policy of never responding to attacks, thus emboldening the enemy and demoralizing the base.
I hope they lose Rove now the election is over. Years more of him is unbearable to think of. He has nothing to offer, just more political hackery dressed up in a Brooks Bros. suit.
Leni
A lot of people were swayed at the last minute by things like no more pre-existing conditions/unearned tax rebate checks/environmental issues. Also, I am told, a lot of last minute lobbying and arm twisting of anyone who wasn’t onboard the zerO train. They were told this is the most important election ever and you can save that protest vote for some other time.
At my precinct, the leftists were out election day acting like it was a party and recording the event for posterity inside the voting room at our township hall with not a peep from anyone at all.
PUMAs weren’t enough, it was a coup.
Reagan won not just because he was conservative, but because he was effective in explaining why YOU should be a conservative too. McCain was just Democrat-lite. Why vote for Dem-lite when you could have the real thing?
The authors conclusions have no real valuable numbers to back them up.
Unless you have both registered voter data and voting data, together and just as importantly state by state, plus some VERY good exit polling, you cannot conclude any degree of who stayed home, or jumped parties.
The mere number of votes received cannot define many things that many writers are extrapolating from them.
“Brit Hume was saying that 13 percent of former Hillary Clinton supporters in Texas voted McCain.”
Baloney. Hume said 87% of Hill suporters voted for Obama, that doesn’t mean the rest voted for Mac. As noted above, it has been stated by PUMAS leaders that many of their votes were either for a 3rd party, written in Hills or left blank.
Quit making facts up.
“They all liked Sarah Palin, some more enthusaistically than others. But they all liked Palin.”
What did the like about her, her stance on abortion?
You wish you would've "had a chance" to speak with your Dad about the election? This election period was eternally long. Whatever prevented you from having a chance to speak to your terminally ill Dad about the election in all that time?
Sounds to me like you'd better lay the blame where it belongs: the media and your lack of relating to your Dad.
Elections come and go, but your Dad is your Dad forever, even after he's gone. Better use this time to build a better relationship with him and forget about his vote for Obama. Your Dad's vote didn't make him president. But your anger at your Dad could affect you for a very long time.
Without going into all the gory details, there were other, more immediate issues on the table in our conversations - such as whether a family member had lived through another night, how the latest surgery went, options for long term care, legal issues. For the better part of this year, almost all of our conversations have centered around someone's health - mine, his, Mom's, Grandma's, etc.
So, yeah, Obama and his ilk took a back seat. Moreover, I never expected him to switch to a Democrat, particularly such a blatently liberal one. He's always been a Conservative; his vote for McCain, even a "hold your nose" vote for McCain, should have been a non-issue.
Hence, the surprise.
Fear not, though! He's refused to "claim me," too, but we usually get over it in about two weeks. He's a good and loving man.
My apologies. It’s my policy not to judge another, knowing I cannot possibly know all the factors involved in any situation causing them them to choose to do what they did. But dont you think you could give your Dad the same understanding you just requested of me?
I wish your family all the best. It sounds like you have a lot of heavy stuff going on. Just don’t forget that love is the most important part of being a family, and you can never give too much. :) That’s something you’ll never regret.
He and I are very much alike; quick to anger, quick to forgive.
Next time we talk, it will be all forgotten.
Peace, FRiend, have a great weekend!
and now they will vote to increase out taxes! Yankees go home! PS>Most of my friends are Yankees and so is my husband, but they are conservatives!
Ah, that’s really good to hear. :) And again, I’m sorry I judged you.
You have a great weekend too!
I think some Republicans were angry at the party, and wanted to teach the leaders a lesson. I guess they did, though it remains to be seen what that is.
They don’t care about her stance on abortion. They are tired of the Democrat Party using abortion as a weapon against women to scare them into voting for their party.
You quit making facts up. Show me the hard numbers of voters who voted for the mystery third party candidate or the blank at the top in the returns. They aren’t there.
I agree with you. The only thing we know for sure is that more votes went to Obama than McCain. Notice I didn’t say “more people”.
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