Thank you!!!
Great article.
“All Americans should be glad that a black American has been able to make it to the presidency, and hope that President-Elect Barack Obama’s time in office will redound to the country’s long-term benefit. “
I am disgusted that we have to take notice. I long for the day when Barack HUSSIEN Obama will simply be regarded as a racist, socialist, not a BLACK racist, socialist.
I am so tired of the first black this, the first black that, the first woman, the first Latino the first ...
We are culturally retarded, and unless/until we can quit grouping people, we are doomed to be divided.
As for any HOPE with Obama’s presidency? It can only turn out badly. I guarantee it.
That says it all. Now we regroup and like all teams who have been defeated we must start by returning to the fundamentals.
I’m amazed at the battleground states. Seems like the more money and time JM put in a state, the bigger the gap. PA, MI, MN, WI, OH, IN, CO, NV saw the biggest shift against us.
Right. Stick around...
The media, the left (i know, redundant), the Hollywood elite and the sheeple have really shown us! We're going to take our spanking for what happened generations ago...and pay dearly.
I will watch this circus unfold... from my knees.
While it was refreshing to see so many young, black voters learning the ropes yesterday, it was at the same time quite sad knowing how misled and misguided they were.
There is no ‘hope amid the ruins’ as long as conservatives accept the false premises of the liberal media machine..ie, that we ‘botched’ Hurricane Katrina and the war in Iraq!
So sick of the temid responses to this narrative, I could puke!! One other thing....why did we run from ‘Big Oil’? Big Oil employs hundreds of thousands of people in this country and the companies that supply ‘Big Oil’, employ hundreds of thousands more!! We need some leaders that are not afraid to stand up to the socialist/populist tide.
#1. Get involved locally in your town government. Start small if need be. (Planning board, rec committee etc...) Use this position to push for conservative values. Work your way up.
#2. Help local causes and organizations that promote conservative values. (Donate money and time)
#3. Write letters to the editor, your congresscritter, go on the radio...get vocal.
Dont give up, use this defeat as a motivator for YOUR values and help save your local community from the insanity that is sure to come.
I know I will.
Yeah, Right!
Just like "Bill Ayers is just some guy who lives in my neighborhood".
“botched the response to Hurricane Katrina”
Nonsense, propaganda perpetrated by the political/media complex and no one (in a position to do so) even attempted to correct it.
There are clearly many Republicans/conservatives in denial about what this election means. I don’t ever see a rebound for Republicans/conservatives. Groups like ACORN are clearly entrenched in our ‘electoral’ process and will become even more so now. Nothing is ever done about deliberate Demonrat thuggary with the ‘vote’. They now have Governorships, Legislatures, Congress, presidency and now even more of these radical judges that write their own law that will only push it in their favor more, as if it was needed! And on top of all the domestic chaos to come, so many have forgotten 9/11 and are in for a very devastating wake-up call. 0bama is the destruction of the United States as far as I’m concerned and laugh all you want about the ramifications but sites like this and conservative/Republican viewpoints are going to be targeted for shut down and censorship. It’s coming and it’s not going to be pretty. Give it a yr.
Yes, it is however, unfortunate that he happens to be a leftist, socialist, anti-American ultra-liberal, who will quite possibly make Jimmuh Carter look like Ronald Reagan by comparison.
Quite the contrary: I am disgusted that, in the XXI Century, anybody gives a rip what colour his skin is.
It may be 56 Dem Senate seats, but with RINOS: Colins, Snowe, Specter and others, they have their filibuster-proof Senate. The Liberals can pass anything and appoint anyone.
For eight long years the msm lurched from one false attack on our President to the next.
Facts and/or truth never mattered. It was always the agenda.
Destroy this president, denigrate America, hate democracy.
Are they out of their minds? I never expected this level of naivete from NRO. Statements like this make it clear the Kool Aid is slowly making its way into their bloodstream, too.
Excellent post! Every FReeper should go to the link and read the whole article. Thank you, rightwingintelligentsia.
I think McCain probably would have won if the meltdown in the financial markets hadn’t occurred with almost perfect timing in September, when he was leading in the polls.
I will never understand how he let Obama essentially blame him for the mortgage mess in the debates. He told this fairy tale of how the problem was caused by Bush deregulation of banking, or “shredding” of regulations, and that McCain was a supporter of deregulating things, so therefore he was somehow the cause of the problem. He said it in the first two debates at least, maybe the third as well. McCain made no attempt to refute it. Biden repeated it in his debate with Palin.
McCain needed to flatly deny that any deregulation had happened - take that lie head on, and then explain how the GSE’s had caused the mess and how the Dem’s opposed legislation to reform them. Instead all he did was mention a letter he and some other Senators had written about the GSE’s without going into any details, while saying that Obama’s name wasn’t on it. It was a sentence or two. Nobody even knew what he was talking about.
I don’t know what it is with Republicans, they don’t seem willing or able to really convey information or take on Democrat assertions point by point in these things. The Obama 95% tax cut was another. McCain went into these things with the idea of just emphasizing a few themes he wanted to get across, leaving the door open for Obama to say whatever he wants. This seems to be how Republican strategists approach these debates. Yes these aren’t debating contests, but you can’t allow your opponent to basically pin an entire crisis on you unchallenged. It’s truly bizarre.
Maybe it’s something in Republican DNA. Bush was also pathetic when it came to explaining things but somehow got elected anyway, maybe because he was facing weak opponents, and his father wasn’t very good either. Dole was really bad too. He made one fumbling attempt to talk about the Clinton ethical lapses in his debates. No one knew what he was talking about.
When are we going to get an articulate Republican candidate who can really give complete, pull no punches, answers that don’t concede these critical points to Dems? Don’t just do it once but keep doing it. Don’t worry what the media will say. Don’t worry about seeming to be blunt. The Republican way loses.