Posted on 11/07/2008 3:32:58 AM PST by NCDragon
Spot on!
and no more war heroes. My theory is that once you’ve fought hard in the past, you don’t want to go through with it again.
McCain’s team doesn’t want to admit it was THEM that lost this election. If Palin gets elected, it will prove that.
Sad fact is that being a old war hero just doesn’t count for very much on our national stage anymore. I have worked for and with some of the VietNam POWs and I’m here to tell you, they are true heroes. It’s just that their time has passed as far as the national stage is concerned. The new crop of heroes (Iraq, Afghanistan etc) will sort itself out over time - suspect they’ll be about evenly divided between Dem and Repub. There’s little to attract a war hero to the GOP now, as the GOP is currently constituted anyway. The GOP needs to define itself positively, beyond just the ‘we suck less’ mentality.
Sarah is one of us. That is why we love her so much. She is down to earth and I don’t believe she would put her nose in the air like Obama does. If she stays in Alaska I wouldn’t blame her. If she runs in 2012 I will support her..
The only Republican problem was at the top of the ticket. The RINO plan of killing American jobs has been killing the GOP since Reagan left office.
The Free Traitor RINOs are more afraid of pro-American conservatives, than are the socialist Democrats.
In the event you folks missed Rush yesterday...McNut and his group are responsible for all those nasty things being said about Sarah:
RUSH... “It’s worse than I thought. There are moderate Republicans who want nothing to do with a conservative who can fire up people.”
“Remember the great ads the North Carolina Republican Party ran that McCain denounced? Now, where is Senator McCain today when members of his own staff are trying to destroy Sarah Palin? I haven’t heard a word.”
“Vladimir Putin wants to return as the president of Russia. Now, let me give you this in a football analogy: Putin returning to power is like a successful head coach coming out of retirement after learning that the schedule for the next four years will be a cakewalk.”
“Why destroy Sarah Palin right now? The only reason I see is to make sure she doesn’t rise again as a force for conservatism in the Republican Party.”
“I actually think the Obama campaign likes this economic chaos, just as they did during the campaign, because the more economic chaos there is, the greater opportunity for expanded government.”
“John McCain’s campaign staff has now spent more time attacking Sarah Palin than they spent combined on Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, Rashid Khalidi, Frank Marshall Davis, and Obama himself. This party must be suicidal.”
“I myself said as much on previous occasions in this program: What are you guys, like McCain, doing messing around, trying to screw up our party? Just join the people that you have all this love for — the Democrats! You like ‘em, go join ‘em!”
“You people who voted for Obama are going to have to learn how to resist this kind of charismatic demagoguery in the future.”
“Look at what Palin did. She’s minding her own business up there in Alaska, they call her up because they need a hail Mary, so she drags herself and her entire family all over the fruited plain without missing a beat. She was unfailingly cheerful. She was a spot of sunshine in an abysmal election year. And now McCain’s camp is trashing her.”
“Implosions can lead to bigger reconstructions. That’s what we face now, and the country can’t do without a Republican Party.”
“My Friendzz”
John McCain was never a friend of mine, it was Sarah.
She was a true friend to all conservatives.
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Damn straight!!!
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Did we ever hear Word One about the costs of Hillary Clinton's wardrobe in over a year of her primary campaign? I'll bet she spent ten times what Governor Palin did, and still looked like a PIAPS.
Look for the pieces of sh!ts that worked for mc loser to get real cushy jobs from obama.They sure worked hard didnt they?
TRUE!!!!
They are badmouthing Palin more than they did Obama, Ayers, Wright, Rezko, etc.
Way to go McCain, really good stuff you're made of.
Really top notch.
Can't get more pathetic than this.
What a total waste of time and money!
Which makes me wonder why he did it....
No... when you think like that... think Patton and McArthur.
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Lot said right there. His campaign gave us a little glimpse of McCain's organizational and management skills.
You can't question the guys loyalty to the country. However, being able to "reach across the aisle" is not what we need in a President and that is really all he advertised. To great leaders like Reagan, there is/was no aisle. There is only what is right.
About the state/local levels...
My mother has been a Republican all her adult life, belongs to the local Republican Women organization, and in general is about as GOP as a person can get. She is also fed up with the GOP. Why? Here are just a few reasons.
1. The local organizations are staffed with old-timers who "know it all." Not that they actually DO know it all, but - like the dumbass who has seniority in a union shop simply because he (miraculously) hasn't fallen into the machinery - they have become fixtures. New people are barely allowed, and new ideas are rarely allowed (see next entry).
2. If someone in the local org does come up with a new twist or a better plan, it will die/be killed unless one of the "grand dames" (of either biological gender) can somehow claim ownership and modify it to benefit their own position within the party. And make no mistake: retaining or advancing one's position in the hierarchy trumps everything else. "Hey! Great idea! Glad you I thought of it! But it needs to be changed so that I..."
3. Enthusiasm is for little people. Think of Queen Victoria announcing,"We are not amused." Well, the important people are not amused when someone is enthused. It is as if enthusiasm is somehow vulgar, something only a commoner would feel. Positive, infectious excitement isn't easy when a Greg Ganske or Doug Gross have come up in the GOP rolodex again, but if the Iowa Republicans came up with a conservative Obama, I suspect they'd tell people to not wave their arms so much when he spoke at rallies.
4. Many local orgs have had the life sucked right out of them by the state apparatus, which apparently exist only to benefit a small group or individual (in Iowa at present, Iverson seems to be the chief beneficiary of whatever goes on anywhere in the state). It wouldn't be so pathetic if that group/individual got results.
5. Conservatives are icky. It isn't just the Palin-loathing McCain staffers and national bluebloods who don't care much for Joe the Plumber when he can't be taken for granted. Some of the finger-sandwich-eating swells are so out of touch that they might as well be Ivy League limo-libs: grandpaw might have been a pistol-totin', beer-sippin', folk-dancin' all-American, but there'll be none of that in OUR party! And our lower intestine is packed with fragrant digested food by-products, if you please!
Okay, not every local is like this, and they know who they are (as do the others, but those people will deny it and sniff disdainfully). Anyway, ma is about at the point with the GOP that she reached with the ELCA: I didn't leave it, it left me.
Mr. niteowl77
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