Posted on 11/07/2008 10:43:31 PM PST by Jim Robinson
As the implosion of the defeated Republican campaign continued yesterday, the landscape of American conservatism was dotted with signs that these were very strange times indeed.
Rush Limbaugh, behemoth of rightwing radio, took to the airwaves to declare war on two enemies: Barack Obama and the Republican party. Bloggers at FreeRepublic.com, an internet hub for conservatives, announced a boycott of Fox News and John McCain's aides fell over one another to leak embarrassing details about the campaign to the press.
Liberals, indulging in what the writer Andrew Sullivan termed "Palinfreude", were presented with a smorgasbord, ranging from the tale of how McCain's pro-Palin foreign policy adviser had his Blackberry confiscated in the closing days of the race, to how the party had paid for Todd Palin's silk boxer shorts.
The fighting consuming the McCain and Palin camps threatened to derail broader efforts to overhaul the Republican party after Tuesday's decisive defeat, for which some insiders blamed Sarah Palin. Veterans of the right gathered in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, on Thursday for a summit on the movement's future, but even as they did so, the blame went on.
"Ladies and gentlemen, it is worse than I thought," Limbaugh told listeners. "What the Republican party, led by disgruntled and failed McCain staffers, is trying to do to Sarah Palin, is unconscionable ... There are country-club, blue-blood ... Republicans who want nothing to do with a firebrand conservative [who] can fire up people." He added: "We're going to be taking on two things here [over] the next four years: Obama, and our own party establishment."
John Fund, a Wall Street Journal columnist, said he had received multiple calls from campaign aides wanting "to use me as a conduit for their complaints".
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“Many people........including most women.” “...and she knows it.”
Most women? During the elections, did you work for any polling organizations? Can you read minds?
You’re sounding like one of those “people” who are having a problem with Gov. Palin.
With the way the MSM continues to disparage Gov. Palin, you’d better believe they’re concerned about her future political career. She’ll kick the pants out of Obama.
Your most recent comments have just entered the realm of obsurdity.
Mr_Moonlight posted the following in #20 (thank you, Mr_Moonlight!):
Dare if I must incur any wrath of FReeper's, but just watch this post-election video of Sarah Palin and how she handles the drive-by MSM's with deft ability on a number of salient issues ... actually I'm being too nice on that, she absolutely destroys and mocks them in a nuanced manner, and they don't even realize what just hit them ... good stuff :)
Thank you. My thoughts were, if not Fox, then who?
Maybe if McCain had not set his table with 'fine gold' he would have had those 'rich' Republicans giving generously.
Where was Romney in this election? He was #2 behind McCain and as soon as he reclined (which I wondered about for 2 months) he was basically AWOL. Why wasn't Romney out there doing all he could to help the MCCain/Palin ticket?
Because he was in CA buying a home in La Jolla and positioning himself for the Governorship (after Arnie takes a spot in Neobama’s cabinet) and use that as a launch pad for his 2012 run.
The Palin smear is all about hardball politics and if she doesn't buck up and meet it head on she can forget about 2012 because she didn't have it to begin with.
Not because she is a woman. I have no problem with her gender, do you?
I'm pretty sure that she has heard this before. Many times. Yet she just keeps on winning. You'll forgive her, and her supporters if they don't take your well meaning advice and TRY!
She was not going to 'rule' anyone. She was going to 'Drill baby Drill and Mine baby Mine.... Maybe these women are not filling up their own gas tanks these days.
Same here, Jim. All these people complaining constantly about FNC: Watch the Commie News Network and/or MSDNC-TV for awhile... you'll be back!
Anyway, I am not going to change your opinion on this one and you are not going to change mine. There are much more important issues we need to worry about in the next four years before we start dreaming who is going to be the next Republican nominee in 2012.
Will somebody just leave her alone? She was so beloved, and suddenly McCain lost (yes, it was his fault, not hers) and she’s the biggest villain on the planet. She would have won on the top of the ticket, I don’t buy some of this negative stuff for a second
Oh, it’s the customer’s fault if they don’t like the product! That’s what the GOP needs, enablers.
NYC logic. Don’t worry, it goes away when you leave. It did for me anyway.
See, with political campaigns, each time, there’s a winner and a loser. If the losers of a campaign were to never work again, there would be an endless revolving door of people who run political campaigns, which is not the case. It is silly to suppose that someone is leaking about Palin just because they might get blamed for McCain’s loss and not work again. It’s the kind of simplistic nonsense cooked up by NY Times reporters.
Besides, a blind man could tell that McCain is the reason McCain lost.
Absolutely not. As I said before I like Palin a lot.
*Are we boycotting FoxNews?*
I am a Gov. Palin supporter from day one
but, boycotting FOX News is childish.
For the last three nights Greta has spent most of her program in defense of Gov. Palin
During the campaign Greta spent a week in Alaska interviewing Todd and other friends and relatives.
Greta wil be in Alaska Mon to interview the Gov.
Also tonight she had on Rush, who is on her show ofen.
Laura Ingraham who subs for O’Reilly spent time in great defense of Gov. Palin.
Others on FOX support Gov. Palin.
Difficult to figure the many who want to boycott FOX but don’t mind their children and grandchildren being brainwashed in Public Schools by Liberal teachers and Liberal text books.
The woman is brilliant. They can call her stupid all they want. Anyone who pays attention to her can tell that they’re full of crap.
What Americans do you believe would not vote for a woman because she is a woman?
Take two laxatives and post me in the morning.
I thought Meg Whitman is going to run for Governor of CA. Doesn’t matter. The CA election will be settled in the Dem primary between Gavin Newson and the Mexican Mayor of Los Angeles.
I think Slick Willard’s move to CA is to setup a 2012 Presidential primary presence.
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