Posted on 11/04/2008 7:46:17 PM PST by My Favorite Headache
Title says it all...this is brutal...beyond brutal. Starting to know what it felt like to be Carter in 1980.
Stick a fork in it...
All-in-all, ACORN is having a successful election.
While I'd actually prefer the former, I think the latter is much more probable.
Yeah. We are getting blitzkrieged.
Obama did prove history right though. No Democrat can win without carrying atleast a couple Southern states.
Brutal? Ya, you could say that.
My worst fears are coming true.
But now, they’ll only get worse.
AP now saying Arizona is a hard toss up...McCain is underperforming in AZ.
WTF.
Not a landslide. The popular vote is going to be much closer than the polls predicted.
However, it is over. Obama will be president.
In my view, the Republican party has no one to blame but itself. They have left a legacy of me-tooism and fiscal incontinence. And it starts at the top.
Virginia should be re-named South Maryland. Freakin' socialists.
I was never a big McCain fan, but the truth be told, there were so many factors against him, that he has a huge natural disadvantage.
Well, this is a shellacking, but it’s not a Carter or Mondale-sized fiasco.
I am devestated, absolutely devestated. My country decided to spit on me.
Thank God my spearation date from the military is 3 Jan.
Ouch...just ouch.
I’ll be buying all non-American products for as long as this commie is in office. Everything that happens is on their watch now.
“Unfortunately Obama will be the next president. The only silver lining is that the Democrats will be responsible for everything that happens on their watch. As a result, one of the following must occur:”
BULLSHIT.
They control everything but will STILL blame the republicans. And the public will believe it all.
Florida? Florida went to the Marxist???
you’ve lost all my respect for posting this crap.
And yes I know you don’t care. Just glad I don’t have to choose you to ever be on my team.
Marine MOM
Right, and the natural disadvantage was named Bush.
McCain had an opportunity to oppose the bailout, and to make 0bama the agent of Bush instead of the agent of change.
This ain’t over.
http://vote.sos.state.oh.us/pls/enrpublic/f?p=130:14:0
According to the official Ohio Secretary of State website — and Jennifer Brunner is a Democrat — 43.19% of all precincts have reported. That’s significantly less than half.
Obama ................. 49.79%
McCain ................ 48.56%
If McCain wins Ohio, he is definitely still alive. All the networks have already called Ohio for Obama, in much the same way they called the election for Kerry in 2004.
You nailed it. ACORN has been on the ground entrenched in 50 states since the democrat primaries. They've had a year to screw with the system.
North Cuba...err..I mean South Florida pushed Obama way over...by 400-500k.
Maybe GOPers will finally begin to push back on the leftist media.
Last I saw, Florida was more red than blue.
Uh, are you sure? The Dems were clearly responsible for the Fannie Mae fiasco yet the Republicans got the blame.
and it’s the Republicans fault for not fighting back....I’ve said it for years now- the GOP fights like a bunch of little girls....until that changes we’re screwed....
What really sickens me is that my GOP congressman, Tom Feeney, got clobbered by his Dem challenger.
Thanks McLame....thanks GOP. God Bless Feeney
Ric Keller also lost his seat. The two Orlando area GOP House members both got trounced. Keller got routed by a ultra-lefty Dem who makes Obama look like Duncan Hunter
I think the parallels are tremendous. Old Party guy, war veteran/hero who gets the chance to go out and try to win the presidency late in life.
Both Dole and McCain just had nothing that made you really want to vote for them. They were both uninspiring candidates. Good soldiers but no pizzaz
BULLSHIT.
They control everything but will STILL blame the republicans. And the public will believe it all.
They wouldn't be able to pull it off. They will be in total control and the public will hold them accountable for both their successes and their failures. Thank God Mitch McConnell is still around. He is an unapologetic conservative and will be capable of leading a conservative (not merely Republican) revolution in two years.
Reguards to MVL country.
Bush beat McCain.
Stick a fork in America. When a Third World Marxist with terrorist friends and a Muslim background can win those two states, then the dumbing down & demographic changes that began in the 60s have reached critical mass. America is no longer a true Western nation. As our colleague Wardaddy has said, our nation has been taken by people who could never have created it.
Oh parksstp... my heart aches for you.
I cannot begin to imagine!!
America has died, and you were fighting to keep her alive and well.
God BLESS YOU.....don’t blame you for getting out!
Polly
Yeah, I live in Fairfax and I saw dozens of people wearing Obama t-shirts (including children!)
We live in a celebrity driven society where anyone can be famous thanks to reality TV.
Parksstp - your country did not decide to spit on you. Americans of all stripes voted for O’Bomber tonight and in doing so spit on George Bush who managed the oval office like an imbecile. Us conservatives used to believe we should run government like we run our households - with sobriety. Bush went rampant, spent money like a teenager with a credit card, a lot on iraq, national healthcare, wealthy wallstreeters and the like. What’s there to like about that? He dicked us and lost the country for republicans. But don’t blame America for that.
Oh parksstp... my heart aches for you.
I cannot begin to imagine!!
America has died, and you were fighting to keep her alive and well.
God BLESS YOU.....don’t blame you for getting out!
Polly
In 2006 so many here said ignore the polls. In 2008, the same thing.
Seems to me, even if the polls were a bit exaggerated, they were right.
The GOP has a lot of pieces to pick up....again. Sometimes a cleansing is good.
If anything, it’s good to be the opposition party for awhile and let them take all the hits. The GOP will have it’s day again, but the GOP needs to run better candidates and have a consistent message.
This is not surprising.
And completely ignored the incredible VICTORY we have in Iraq. Thanks to your son for his service. My nephew is joining the Marine Corps and I now wonder if this is a wise decision.
If they want votes, they need to work for them.
Newt rose to power in similar circumstances, so we should see a rising star pretty soon. And here’s a hint: It won’t be someone in DC.
Bambi is up by 3 points with 82% reporting.
The country has made a very big shift to the left. There will be many new citizens by the time the next election comes around and traditional American values will be left even further behind. Depressing.
Everybody wants a Euro-style cut-rate socialist economy. Thanks, voters, that’s exactly what we’re getting. Be careful what you ask for. Enjoy the low gas prices, it’ll be $6.00/gal by Easter.
The only problem is that there is no Ronald Reagan on the horizon right now as there was back then. I have hopes for Palin but I am just not convinced...yet. We must find someone with a take no prisoners approach who can also directly appeal to a broad spectrum of voters. Enough of this ‘reaching across the aisle’ crap that GWB and McCain are so fond of. Time to start looking for a kick ass and take names conservative to fight fire with fire, right now!
Bingo. My thoughts (and hopes) exactly.
Sadly, I predict: in 4 minutes every TV outlet will be making the call: Obama is the President-elect.
What a horrible, horrible event.
I don’t drink hardly ever, but if I were not taking antibiotics, tonight would be a time to do so.
I am living a nightmare.
One thing is for sure, I warned about believing all the good signs and knocking all the bad signs, such as EVERY POLL being wrong. Even TIPP had McCain losing, but we wanted to believe that not to be the case.
Who can blame us for doing so?
But, they were right. Obama won.
Contrary to all the PUMA talk, they didn’t show in enough numbers to win.
He ran a good campaign, and frankly a lot will say otherwise, but there isn’t much more McCain could have done to win. There just wasn’t.
History was against us big-time, and the voters were desperate for something different. They saw Obama as offering that, and Obama was able to craftily deflect socialism criticism etc. in such a way that many voters accepted it.
I do not want to hear “voters voted for socialism.”
They didn’t. They voted for something the majority believed would be different, bringing change.
Unfortunately, this time they didn’t really care about how liberal he was.
“Virginia should be re-named South Maryland. Freakin’ socialists. “
Now, now. It took a GWB-proportioned failure to get Virginia to go Obama.
The Solid South will return when a true conservative is the Republican party standard bearer.
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