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What do the election results mean to conservatives?
American Thinker ^ | November 09, 2008 | Bruce Walker

Posted on 11/09/2008 5:08:10 AM PST by vietvet67

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1 posted on 11/09/2008 5:08:10 AM PST by vietvet67
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To: vietvet67

Name ONE REAL conservative that voted for the MARXIST?? Just ONE.


2 posted on 11/09/2008 5:09:18 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion.....The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: vietvet67

I think that Laura Bush asked George to nominate Harriet Myers......I am praying that a WOMAN was stupidly emothional and not a man.....saying this as a woman.


3 posted on 11/09/2008 5:11:03 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion.....The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: vietvet67

I want to know how votes were due to fraud.


4 posted on 11/09/2008 5:12:31 AM PST by Perdogg (Gov Sarah Palin - President 2012)
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To: vietvet67

New Zealand is looking up!


5 posted on 11/09/2008 5:13:59 AM PST by Edgar3 ("Is there a Patriot in the house?")
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To: vietvet67
More conservatives stocking up on ammunition?

Count me in.

6 posted on 11/09/2008 5:17:26 AM PST by Northern Yankee (Freedom Needs A Soldier)
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To: vietvet67

McCain’s platform was conservative (except for the virtual absence of immigration reform). The problem was that he didn’t seem to believe in it and, more importantly, that he never explained the benefits of his policies in a clear, convincing way.

Against pork barrel spending? OK, Senator McCain, now explain to the average American why cutting pork is beneficial to him? I’m not even sure that most Americans even know what pork barrel spending is to begin with. Yet he never explained himself.

McCain was against ethanol subsidies, and he even had the guts to say it in one of the debates. This is the primary reason why I voted for him. The problem? He didn’t explain WHY cutting ethanol is good for Americans, particularly low- and middle-income Americans struggling to deal with skyrocketing food costs. This was an absolutely stupid error. He lost the support of agribusiness by mentioning cutting subsidies, and once he’d done that, he didn’t even use the position to his advantage.

When offering conservative positions, McCain would do it as a concession to the “base”. Maybe he didn’t believe in them enough to sell these views to people who aren’t political geeks and pundits.


7 posted on 11/09/2008 5:17:32 AM PST by AfterManyASummer
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Obama got a big slice of the conservative vote

I call BS!!!
I am not going to sit back and listen to these lies for one second!

Prove it -- or STHU!

8 posted on 11/09/2008 5:18:23 AM PST by Just A Nobody (I *LOVE* my Attitude Problem - NEVER AGAIN...Support our Troops! Beware the ENEMEDIA)
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To: Ann Archy

“Name ONE REAL conservative that voted for the MARXIST?? Just ONE.”

Exactly.


9 posted on 11/09/2008 5:18:55 AM PST by wgflyer (Liberalism is to society what HIV is to the immune system.)
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To: vietvet67

You know. . .I’m sick of people saying this. . .in my view, its stupid vs. non-stupid. . .right now there are more stupid people who want to believe in Obama Claus. . .simple. . oh well, reality is on the way.


10 posted on 11/09/2008 5:19:00 AM PST by McBuff
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I called them ObamaConned!


11 posted on 11/09/2008 5:21:35 AM PST by pray4liberty (Always vote for life!)
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To: vietvet67

PING


12 posted on 11/09/2008 5:21:57 AM PST by StatenIsland (The '08 Election: It's about the survival of our country, not making a point...)
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To: Ann Archy

Ping


13 posted on 11/09/2008 5:23:45 AM PST by mek1959
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To: vietvet67

We have our work cut out for us, but nobody works harder than conservatives.


14 posted on 11/09/2008 5:23:54 AM PST by Erik Latranyi (Too many conservatives urge retreat when the war of politics doesn't go their way.)
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To: McBuff

I know what you mean. I’m thinking of all those guys who walk around having to hold their pants up with one hand and vote for Obama with the other.


15 posted on 11/09/2008 5:24:07 AM PST by libertylover (The problem with Obama is not that his skin is too black, it's that his ideas are too RED.)
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To: Northern Yankee
My friendly gun shop owners says they cannot keep ammo on the shelves. It is flying out the door. Gun sales up big time. Good time for their businesses in this bad business climate. NOTE TO OBAMA: One industry doing well with your election; THE GUN INDUSTRY!!
16 posted on 11/09/2008 5:25:54 AM PST by RetiredArmy (America is entering four very long and cold years. First victim: liberty)
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To: vietvet67
Obama got a big slice of the conservative vote,

Wrong! Anyone who votes for a socialist is not conservative!
17 posted on 11/09/2008 5:26:27 AM PST by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it!)
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To: vietvet67

Senator McCain looked like a doddering old man, and the situation particularly in the financial sector called for decisive action.

McCain stumbled through it terribly incompetantly, Obama looked more reasonable than radical to the average voter.

Had the financial crisis not occurred, people would have been more comfortable with a less active president. If McCain hadn’t failed completely with his response to it, people would have had enough faith in his abilities to elect him.

The fault lies in the candidate this year, and nowhere else. The conservative position is undoubtably the more popular- in crazy-left CA homosexual marriage lost and a pro life referendum came within 4 points.


18 posted on 11/09/2008 5:27:24 AM PST by I_Like_Spam
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To: AfterManyASummer

Yes and his amnesty turned off a whole passel of conservatives to him.
McCain over the years took pride in sticking it to conservatives. Then he just expected us to support his sorry old ass.
There was NO reason the G.O.P. once again nominated a tired old white guy because he’s hung around a little too long. Hello Mr. Dole.


19 posted on 11/09/2008 5:27:37 AM PST by Joe Boucher (An enemy of Islam)
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"What does this mean to conservatives? It means we must choose leaders who believe, even if their cause seems hopeless. It means that we must recall that liberty was not born in our nation in easy ways but at Valley Forge when Washington saw his men's bloody, frostbitten feet as he contemplated the loss of everything he possessed in life if he were to lose. It means remembering that Goldwater was routed in 1964, but came back to the Senate in 1968 with everyone - liberals included -- respected his courage and dignity. It means going back four years to the Reagan Funeral and seeing the long lines of thankful Americans who waited for hours just to say goodbye to the last true leader they had known."

I was one of those thankful Americans that waited in line through the night into the first sunlight of dawn to pay respects to that great man, President Ronald Reagan. He was dearly loved.

20 posted on 11/09/2008 5:28:01 AM PST by EverOnward
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