obama won a spoiled rotten safe American idol vote.
This is exactly what happened. McLame did not inspire the conservative masses and Obummer stirred the suckers for the kill.
Mccain-Feingold (no, not the SNL joke)
McCain-Kennedy
Gang of 14
Mavericks ride alone. John McCain didn't need us until he started sending out requests for donations. Now that he has lost this election, it's time for him to retire instead of trying to be the Republican Bobby Byrd. If Arizona law requires that the Governor appoint a Republican to replace him, do it now. If not, don't run for re-election.
We know that about 15% of Democrats who voted for Hillary Clinton voted for McCain-Palin (the PUMA voters). So how are we to explain the results? The conclusion is inescapable. The Republicans stayed home in droves. Obama did not win the election, the Republicans gave it to him by not getting out and voting.
Lesson? No more RINO squish, milquetoast POTUS candidates.
Republican declined to 28.7 percent down 1.3 percentage points from 2004-—
I’ve tried to make people understand that the overwhelming turnout for Bush in 2004 did NOT take place this time around. The Democrats gave us McCain, now, we’re stuck with the Kenyan Socialist.
The day after the election, Rush talked about his emails being full of stuff from GOPs who would not vote because they hated McCain.
And it turned out, as expected, that the PUMAs were a myth: disgruntled Clinton fans were never going to vote for a Right to Life advocate like Sarah who stands for everything they hate.
And how many people tread too softly when referring to Clinton for fear of upsetting the mythical PUMAs? Ultimately, it was not only a myth but a very counterproductive one.
Well if that’s true then the ones who stayed home deserve what they get from this administration.
The rest of us are unfairly tortured.
What appears to be the case is that McCain’s little “maverick(TM)” act wrt the bailout cost him something like five or six million votes. Worst candidate I’ve ever seen pubbies field, worst pubbie campaign I ever saw. It also says that the potential was there and will be there again for a pubbie blowout. It also says the ONLY gauranteed way Oinkbama et. al. have of preventing that is to try to create some massive new voting block out of illegal aliens, ghosts, dogs, cats, or whatever, and that we need to be ready to go absolutely to the wall to stop that.
The trouble with people like McCain is, they spend a decade trashing the conservative base, ridiculing conservatives, spitting in the face of conservatives, ignoring or going against the desires of conservatives (amnesty, McCain-Feingold, gang of 14 etc), then he turns round and expects the same conservatives he’s been abusing to vote for him.
In a way McCain deserved every bit of the whipping he took from the MSM. After all, the same McCain had spent the last 8 years, playing up to the MSM, and using the MSM to undermine the Republican Party, conservatives, and President Bash at every opportunity he got. In a way its poetic justice. He deserved whatever he got.
Without Gov Palin, and the very horror of an Obambi presidency, there’s no way I’d have voted for this clown.
After two years of BO’s economics and broken promises, the Republican Party (if it can pull itself together)should retake the House of Representatives. That will put a brake on BO’s first and only term.
In the end, I think it was mostly Evangelicals staying home, and maybe the bishops not getting the word out soon enough about abortion being the deal breaker.
McCain really made himself unpopular with the Evangelicals in 2000, and he screwed up again this time, too. He really just doesn’t seem to get it. I was hoping Sarah Palin would be enough to bring them out, but evidently it wasn’t quite enough to counterbalance their distaste for McCain.
open *and early primaries in NH and FL sealed the GOP fate.
No, it wasn't them. I know exactly which Republicans stayed home this election.
The Ron Paul Republicans.
Mostly BS!
You win a cookie!
Those Republican voters the author is describing are Ron Paul supporters. How many of these people stayed home after seeing their candidate trashed by the very party that’s supposed to represent his values? How many of them stayed home after they registered Republican in the primaries only to see local GOP party hacks laugh at them and call them kooks? I know, I was there registering Republican voters before the primaries and most of these new voters only became Republicans because of Paul. The unprecedented fundraising Paul received online, yeah, that really came from Soros. Not - it came from everyday people who believed in liberty. The rallies that Paul was getting were the equivalent of what Palin was getting. Ron Paul was Palin before Palin became a household name. Add to the fact that the GOP completely ignored Paul’s advice on the economy and limited government, and maybe even on foreign policy a little too. There’s an elephant in the room here that the conservative media simply refuses to address or even acknowledge.
PUMAS, LOL. I was one of those idiots who thought the Pumas were coming to the rescue. I felt like one of the besieged in Constantinople before the Mohammedans finally breached the wall.
where’s that stupid winking Puma pic? LOL
Here in Orange in 2004 Bush received 79,089 votes and Kerry received 63,394.
This year Obama received 68,160 votes and McCain received 66,512.
I have heard from some individuals that they did not vote for either Presidential candidate.