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Enough About McCain’s ‘Graciousness’ — It’s the Reason He Lost
Pajamas Media ^ | November 9, 2008 | Kyle-Anne Shiver

Posted on 11/09/2008 12:17:57 PM PST by AJKauf

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1 posted on 11/09/2008 12:17:57 PM PST by AJKauf
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Well, we can all benefit from the exercise program McCain will put into Congress by running from side to side...”of the aisle”. Whew...I’m outta breath already!!


2 posted on 11/09/2008 12:20:35 PM PST by imfrmdixie
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Enough About McCain’s ‘Graciousness’ — It’s the Reason He Lost

No. I think graciousness was all he could offer since his plans differed so little from Obama's.

3 posted on 11/09/2008 12:21:32 PM PST by fso301
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Oh ya’ graciousness towards all of his lefty pals,
but he leaves Sarah out to dry without a word in
her defense, He’s the worst “Friend” a person can have.


4 posted on 11/09/2008 12:22:23 PM PST by ThreePuttinDude (-)....Election 2008, the year of the Affirmative Action President....(-)
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“misplaced sense of graciousness”

McCain’s trait is not graciousness. It is an attitude of pathological compromise and capitulation. That is why the NYT selected him to be the Republican candidate and that is why he lost.


5 posted on 11/09/2008 12:22:51 PM PST by ChicagahAl (So your bumper sticker says: "Don't blame me, I didn't vote!"? Duh!)
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McCain’s graciousness appears to only be extended to Democrats. He needs to stand up for his Vice Presidential running mate.


6 posted on 11/09/2008 12:23:41 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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McCain finally won his own self-deprecating moniker of “Miss Congeniality”.
7 posted on 11/09/2008 12:24:32 PM PST by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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Senators seldom win. So it was a tale of two Senators, one of which is a hardened Chicago guerilla politician.


8 posted on 11/09/2008 12:24:47 PM PST by thesetruths
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If Coke is on sale for the same price as Cola X, then you buy the Coke. The Real Thing.

John McCain was” Obama - lite”, we all knew it back during the primaries. I was stuck with him, and frankly, he didn’t inspire me much. If the Republican party decides to put up a compromise face, and give Obama an extended honeymoon, them I’m out of the Republican party.

Enough of graciousness. Enough of Jeremiah Wright is off limits. Obama should have no - zip - nada - el ninguno honeymoon since he’s grasping at power even before he’s inaugurated.


9 posted on 11/09/2008 12:25:15 PM PST by HondaCRF450
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Yeah, that Rev Wright blackout worked out well, huh?

You were afraid of being called a racist of pointing out Obama as a racist. And in the end you’re still being called a racist.

Enjoy Obama’s inauguration J MAC.


10 posted on 11/09/2008 12:26:12 PM PST by nhwingut (,)
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There is a place for graciousness. After you win the election.


11 posted on 11/09/2008 12:29:14 PM PST by adc (Rush '08All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently oppos)
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“When Larry King asked John McCain less than a week before the election whether he believed Barack Obama was a socialist”

McCain had to say NO because he’s not too far away from being one himself.


12 posted on 11/09/2008 12:30:11 PM PST by wolfcreek (I see miles and miles of Texas....let's keep it that way.)
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he’s grasping at power even before he’s inaugurated.

What is it with weak presidents and Poland, anyway?

13 posted on 11/09/2008 12:31:49 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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At his age his testosterone level must be negative.


14 posted on 11/09/2008 12:32:06 PM PST by School of Rational Thought (Sarah Palin - High ideals on high heels)
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Yeah, it’s kinda hard to differentiate yourself from the “other guy” when you sounded so much like him for so long, and he tip-toes through the “mine fields of I hope I didn’t hurt your feelings or say anything that could be thought racist.”


15 posted on 11/09/2008 12:33:12 PM PST by NordP (PALIN POWER: She's Reagan in heels, Teddy Roosevelt in a dress & like Rummy at a press conference!)
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Just waht is graciousness? Let me use it a sentence.

By complying with the rapist the woman was “gracious” to her attacker.


16 posted on 11/09/2008 12:33:58 PM PST by School of Rational Thought (Sarah Palin - High ideals on high heels)
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Watch. McCain will probably believe he is the liaison between Republicans and Demoncrats.

SHAME ON McPAIN.

The LEAST he could do is defend DARAH PALIN.

SHAME ON YOU McPAIN.

17 posted on 11/09/2008 12:37:10 PM PST by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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His candidacy, like Dole’s, was an old man’s vanity. He shouldn’t have run.


18 posted on 11/09/2008 12:37:23 PM PST by livius
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To: HondaCRF450

I am down on the floor begging. How did McCain get the nomination? I was quite shocked when he kept winning in primaries. I thought well I guess it is like Dole, he is a war hero and all and people feel like he earned it. Who knows.


19 posted on 11/09/2008 12:41:02 PM PST by mel
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To: nhwingut

Whose to blame?

Blame McCain for running a lackluster campaign and doing himself no favors

Blame Mitt Romney for bringing his money to the primaries and essentially shutting other potential candidates (i.e. Newt) for running.

Blame Newt for appearing to bring conservative ideas and representing the cause, only to appear in a environmentalist-whacko commercial with Nancy Pelosi and to admit that he too would have voted for the $700B bailout.

Blame Mike Huckabee for running a populist (not conservative) platfrom under the auspices of social conservatism

Blame Fred Thompson for wasting a completely armed grassroots effort and showing a complete lack of enthusiasm for the people supporting him

Blame Rudy Guiliani for being wrong on the social issues and guns

Blame Ron Paul for thinking isolationism in the world today is still as practical today as it was in 1796

Blame Tom Tancredo for going through a whole early debate without ever bringing up “immigration”

Blame Duncan Hunter for giving up and supporting Mike Huckabee.

Blame the way the GOP sets up choosing a nominee by giving RINO states a winner-take-all format an advantage.

Blame George Bush who pretty much threw the House Republicans under the bus with comprehensive immigration and the bailout bill

Blame the House Republicans for allowing themselves to be thrown under the bus for the bailout

But most of all.....

Blame the 63,000,000 Americans that believed Joe the Plumber, Rev Wright, William Ayers, Spreading the Wealth, Winning the War on Terror, Supporting a baby’s right to life, etc was just not that important. You can’t fix stupid, and what we have is a large majority of stupid voters.

Blame the 3,000,000+ in PA that don’t mind being called racist or clinging to their guns or bibles with antipathy towards others not like them, or not caring that their coal jobs might go away.

Blame the 2,700,000+ in OH that don’t give a rat’s a$$ about Joe the Plumber and Spreading the Wealth

Blame the 3,000,000+ in FL that don’t might not becoming energy independent so they can pay $10 a gallon

Blame the 2,000,000+ in MI that don’t mind living in a recession and want it to get worse

And we could go on and on....

Bottom line: McCain ran a lackluster campaign, but given the information that was out there and the number of people listening to FOX News, talk radio, etc, these 63,000,000 knew the real Obama despite the MSM doing their best to hide it. They just didn’t care. And like I said before, you can’t fix stupid.


20 posted on 11/09/2008 12:46:13 PM PST by parksstp (For the first time in my adult life I am truly ashamed to be an American)
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