Video: McCain concedes
posted at 12:03 am on November 5, 2008 by Allahpundit
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The recriminations begin tomorrow. Tonight, this.
Update: Here’s the transcript, if you prefer.
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The failure was not John McCain’s. By all rights he should have lost this election months ago.
silentMajority on November 5, 2008 at 1:11 AM
Yyyyyyyyyyyup!
GAME OVER MAN!
Kini on November 5, 2008 at 1:12 AM
Hows the view from McCain’s nutsack?
csdeven on November 5, 2008 at 1:12 AM
Goodbye Juan McCain, why don’t you go run for President of Mexico. You are just a useless RINO but I give you credit for being a humble loser. Go back to the Senate and join up with another gang of 14 to sell us out.I’m sure the press will like you and respect your sell out mentality once again.It is time for the Republican party to get rid of RINOs like you, we tried to “reach across the isle. We tried it your “moderate” way. We gave America a choice of a true moderate, maverick RINO and we lost. It is time to become conservatives again. It is time to dump the McCain’s from our party. If this election doesn’t show clearly that it is time to stop being the liberal lite party and give America a real choice again than nothing will.
Dollayo on November 5, 2008 at 1:12 AM
csdeven:
Sarah Palin is a conservative and they rejected her, at least for now.
Terrye on November 5, 2008 at 1:13 AM
Remember all, McCain had many on our side that fought against us.
Peggy Noonan comes to mind and many others.
We need to fix the party…. NO MORE RINOS
Kini on November 5, 2008 at 1:14 AM
The Right has a lot of work to do to develope a media not in service to the Left. Since the Liberal media’s doing a great job of self-destruction, this Obama “win” will buoy them up a bit but their path is doomed (no credibility remaining, utterly a political tool of Democrats).
We’ll have to develope a so-called comedy show for Saturday nights that profanes and mimics, say, Michelle Obama as a man in a gorilla suit (severe imagery, I realize, BUT MY POINT IS the demeanment of Palin has been brutal by the Left using “comedy” as a farce-front to do that, so, I’m just suggesting a counter-disgusting bit, something about the Left that would equate with how the Left has ridiculed the Right, specifically, women on the Right, and President Bush, etc.).
We’ll have to develope a media that is new. I was thinking over the cash laid out for, say, DVDs over the past years, looking at the talent invovled in those DVDs and their Liberal politics and advocacy now for Obama, and, I regret so much as paying one dime for many of those titles.
Which is what the Right needs to step up: stop consuming the Left’s “media” or “entertainment” soup. I can’t see putting lipstick on any more pigs.
S on November 5, 2008 at 1:14 AM
AND BLUE BLOODS
Kini on November 5, 2008 at 1:15 AM
csdeven:
How is the view from McCain’s nutsack? Oh that is clever. Gee I can not imagine why more people do not want to be Republicans and hang out with conservatives and talk politics and get involved.
I have never seen McCain’s nutsack, but I am betting it is more impressive than yours.
Terrye on November 5, 2008 at 1:15 AM
You said you were ready to leave the party? Then good! Go away. We need to purge conservatism of people who think like you do.
All the complaints you are hearing now were made against McCain when he was in the primaries. That was almost a year ago and most of us saw the writing on the wall. But, we manned up and supported him for the good of the country. Well, he slept through the general thinking that running a pussified campaign would get him elected. He betrayed us and I feel no obligation to blindly support him for one more second. He screwed us on the shamnesty bill and now this.
Good riddance to bad garbage.
csdeven on November 5, 2008 at 1:18 AM
I agree, I have to either mute the set or leave the house whenever he’s being broadcast. I can’t imagine four frickin’ years of his mindless bombast from the teevee.
I’m waiting to get a transcript, though, of that speech from earlier tonight because the few soundbites I heard were preoposterously grandiose and general to such an extent that they were meaningless. The other soundbites I heard were grossly hypocritical (claiming this election — HIS! — is somehow unique and unusual and people standing in lines to vote, “sacrifice is upon us” and such — what the heck does he think Americans have been doing for over two centuries now).
S on November 5, 2008 at 1:20 AM
Yeah, that’s right McCain…go back to your cushy little job in the Senate and let a guy who spent his life wallowing in anti-Americanism become president.”We’re all Amercians” !!!
Yeah, except the creep who spent 20 years going to a “church” that said “God Damn America”!!!!
Son of Albion on November 5, 2008 at 1:22 AM
OK fine. The time to support that RINO traitor is over. It’s time for us to get out from under the straight talk express and through McCain under our bus. The move toward accepting nothing less than a conservative candidate from the rep party starts tonight! We do that by destroying McCain for his betrayal to conservative values.
csdeven on November 5, 2008 at 1:22 AM
Actually funky, if McCain had dropped out of the race or switched parties like he threatened to years ago, I would have been the first one to stand up and say..’Way to go, Backdoor John!’ Other than that, no, there isn’t really anything he could have done to make me believe he was serious about winning this election. I also want to add, unlike some others, I never stopped bashing him throughout this entire process. Consistent, I am. Prescient too. Any ticket with McCain on it I said, was doomed. I didn’t forsee the Palin choice; he actually did better than I would have thought, but at the possible cost of her future.
No, the GOP blew it. We wasted our nomination on someone that wasn’t committed to the party, or the message. He wasted months during the primaries trying to find a way to win without his base. Worked out well for all of us, didn’t it? Well, the one good thing is we probably won’t have to suffer another McCain candidacy for President…bad thing is he’ll probably get his amnesty through this time…
austinnelly on November 5, 2008 at 1:23 AM
McCain mismanaged her from the beginning. He should have had a competent staff to help her assimilate into national politics.
csdeven on November 5, 2008 at 1:25 AM
Don’t forget that McCain’s biggest betrayal will be realized when Obama nominates 3 activist Justices for the supreme court.
csdeven on November 5, 2008 at 1:28 AM
Terrye - thanks for arguing for civility and balance. I don’t have the energy for it tonight, but it’s almost amusing that all of these political geniuses collected here have figured out how McCain could have won if he had only adopted this, that, or the other tactic.
As for alternatives or a better campaign, none of you knows or can ever know whether opposing the bailout (before or after it was passed), “naming names” on the credit crisis, making an issue out of Wright and pursuing a tack of character assassination, or in some other way running more as a true conservative or winning-is-the-only thing alley fighter, rather than having won the election, might instead have sent him and his party to political oblivion not just to defeat - or might in other circumstances have won a victory that wasn’t worth having.
Just like the many critics of Bush or the military on one or another aspect of the war on terror, none of them ever has to take responsibility for the risks, downsides, and unintended consequences of their supposed solutions.
In my opinion the real reason we’re in the predicament we’re now in is much, much bigger than any particular tactic or even an entire campaign strategy, and it’s not McCain’s fault that an exhausted and divided conservative movement already on the verge of a certain loss couldn’t settle on a “truer” candidate. It’s certainly not his fault that the issue he ran on (national security) virtually disappeared from view, and that the issue that seemed most important in August, energy, similarly fell away, to be overwhelmed by a crisis that he was singularly ill-prepared to handle.
He fought hard and well and creatively. He made a race of it when there seemed little chance that anyone could do so, and he and his running mate left the country with an image of conservatism much better than the one it had when the race started. In a way that will be rarely acknowledged, remembered, or understood, he did more for the right, both for now and for the future, than almost any other conservative could have at this time.
And for that, a thousand true conservatives who probably aren’t fit to carry his his comb will presume to look down on him.
CK MacLeod on November 5, 2008 at 1:29 AM
Well well.
Since the messiah has arrived and will soon take control, I can sleep peacefully now (sarc). In light of Hisness allowing people the day off on Nov 04 I will shut my office on the 5th. I plan on flying a black flag from the porch (sans skull and crossbones) and will submit my requisition for reparations for:
1.) My ancestors struggle to keep their Wisconsin dairy farm operational during the Civil War after being forced to leave Ireland due to religious persecution and becoming shipwrecked in Newfoundland. Perhaps I can emmigrate to Canada or simply repatriate to the Real Green country? Nah.
2.) Taking shit jobs just to feed my family since in order to get the numbers to satisfy the equal opportunity programs in placing people of ethnic? preference ahead of those Really qualified thus made me inelligible for entitlements/govt jobs.(See #1)
3.) Since #2- having to sign on $85,000 in student loans to get an advanced degree only to realize that if one wasn’t the right ethnicity, they’d actually have to be Paid Back!! Quotas are hell, people.
4.)The pressures of military life made me an alcoholic (hic). I want back pay, dammit!
5.) I’m left handed. Not by choice. I was made this way.
6.) My boat (was paid off) is needing a bottom job.
7.) My health care coverage suxx. I spend nearly fifty bucks a month on vitamins and can’t get reimbursed. (Oh, never been in a hospital, either. See #4)
8.) Traumatized and near bi-polar over the fact that the last minister I watched said, “Not God Bless America, God Damn America”. I twitch.
9.) Being lied to on an ongoing basis by the television networks that exist to “just report the facts” and yet got You elected by preferential treatment (see #’s 1,2, 3,& 8) My fairness doctrine is in extreme pain. Can ya feel me?
10.) My Mfcking phone bill is too high. I wanna free phone an, uh unlimited minutes, an, uh loose shoes, an, uh a warm place to shit this winter, an , uh tight….
OkieDoc on November 5, 2008 at 1:32 AM
McCain walked into a gun fight with 20oz boxing gloves. Face it, the media picked our candidate. They picked the weakest link in the chain to run against their candidate. I don’t dislike McCain but he’s too much the gentleman, and politics is a dirty affair. Would you buy a used car from the sales man that tells you the truth about the rust bucket, or the one that makes you feel good about it. They virtually destroyed every threat candidate that was available or refused them air time. They kept giving us the bull that it would be four more years of Bush. Well stop and think about it for a moment. Bush has lowered taxes, we have a massive deficit, well if you look back, there were a lot of articles in the press how Slick cooked the books to make it look as though he didn’t leave with a deficit, so Bush inherited it. Lets face it, a war is not going to improve a deficit. Bush has stayed out of our personal lives, now that is about to change. Bush took the war to the terrorist. Bush warned us about Fanny and Freddie. Bush has taken all the crap the media and dems have thrown at him but hasn’t thrown any stations off the air or threatened them as a certain party has. Sure he signed bills with pork in them, but some times you have to eat a crap sandwich to keep the money flowing, especially when you are fighting a war on two fronts and your troops are depending on you. Bush under the circumstances has served the Republic well. Four more years of Bush? hell yes, be better than what we are faced with now comrades.
Manly!! Walk it off and get your butt back here, your much better at this than I am.
N4646W on November 5, 2008 at 1:37 AM
N4646W
Well said.
Crystald on November 5, 2008 at 1:44 AM
WOW! WOW! WOW!
Florida, Arizona AND CALI-FRICKIN-FORNIA ALL PASSED INITIATIVES TO AMEND STATE CONSTITUTIONS DEFINING MARRIAGE AS BETWEEN ONE MAN AND ONE WOMAN (In other words, “banning gay marriage”).
Arkansas…passed state Const. amendment limiting adoption to married heterosexuals.
DISAPPOINTING is Colorado, where an initiative was rejected that would have defined (legally) human life as beginning at conception.
S on November 5, 2008 at 1:45 AM
Here’s my version of a concession speech. No more ludicrous optimism, no more clinging on to power, or to a party that seemingly doesn’t resonate with Americans any more.
It’s over for Republicans. Take a look at what happened in your local and state elections. Now imagine the last two soldiers at Little Big Horn telling each other “it could be worse”. It would take that level of delusion to think the GOP in it current form will recover.
Fiscally conservative, socially libertarian regular folks have no party.
Smaller government conservatives died with Reagan.
Free market conservatives died with the insertion of taxpayer money into the banking system.
Twenty eight years of single issue christians’ loyalty to a party that claims to be pro-life, and no change in the abortion laws. Defense of marriage? no fight there either.
Fighting against government intrusion into private lives at every level?? not a chance. Republicans fall into the “if it saves one life it’s worth it” mentality so easily, they allow mandatory seat belt laws, mandatory child seat laws, mandatory bicycle helmet laws, onerous targeted taxes on cigarettes, and the list could go on and on.
Weak kneed and unwilling to fight for decades, but for one shining moment, Republicans have become the party of big intrusive government. They are to democrats what Coke is to Pepsi.
GWB’s lackluster second term has devolved into an indefensible joke.
We seem to think that Obama is the next Carter, who will lead us to the next Reagan.
Its far more likely that Bush is the next Carter.
I’m done. Off to look for a small government, pro-growth, anti intrusive party or candidate. Or maybe build one.
OneEyedJack on November 5, 2008 at 1:46 AM
SO THERE ARE A LOT OF CONSERVATIVES AMONG OUR NATION…we’re not out, we’re just regrouping.
I’m amazed at the California Constitutional Amendment passing (which I voted for). There were many millions of dollars thrown at that Amendment to try to derail it’s passage.
It’s also a reflection of what the original voter opinion was in California before it was struck down by the Ninth Circuit there. Which allowed the emergence of rogue “gay marriages” let fly in California.
Now that this Constitutional Amendment has passed (remarkable that it has), that means an end to the “gay marriage” escapades in CA. Really remarkable statement about the “silent” apparent majority in CA.
S on November 5, 2008 at 1:48 AM
What she, and now you, are too ignorant to realize is that WE KNEW McCAIN WOULD LOSE. The point is that he did NOT use all the weapons at his disposal. Would it have worked? Who knows, but it worked for Hillary. She had him below 40% but it was too late in coming.
So the two of you can spare us the McCainesque sanctimony. It’s sickening because we know that McCain did not do everything he could have done. We all understand that you two are satisfied with mediocrity. Fortunately, we real conservatives are not.
csdeven on November 5, 2008 at 1:50 AM
WOW! WOW! WOW!
Florida, Arizona AND CALI-FRICKIN-FORNIA ALL PASSED INITIATIVES TO AMEND STATE CONSTITUTIONS DEFINING MARRIAGE AS BETWEEN ONE MAN AND ONE WOMAN (In other words, “banning gay marriage”).
Arkansas…passed state Const. amendment limiting adoption to married heterosexuals.
S on November 5, 2008 at 1:45 AM
Lot of good it will do us, Oby and the congress will take that up first thing. Well maybe Pickle Puss will jump the gun on him, she is not going to be very happy that the people defied her court.
N4646W on November 5, 2008 at 1:50 AM
im a black american. i felt so proud seeing Obama, but I am so fearful of what Socialism-lite will do to the American nation. I’m hopeful, but timid, I am a conservative, but an American first.
Here’s your chance President-elect Obama. Make our nation strong.
AmericaLives.wordpress.com
americalives on November 5, 2008 at 1:55 AM
Crystald on November 5, 2008 at 1:44 AM
Thank you, but Manly and others are much better at this than I am. I’m just a burned out old fart.
N4646W on November 5, 2008 at 1:59 AM
Gahh, Obama declared tonight that “as Lincoln said, we are many, but one” — this after Obama telling his worshipers to “get in (our) faces” and the campaign doing whatever gorrilla grunts were necessary to connive, manipulate and condemn “America”.
Obama cannot recover any crebility beyond subterranean after his campaign and his own words throughout that, condemning many Americans. Now he’s trying to say ‘we are one.’
He’s selling a bridge in Chicago…
S on November 5, 2008 at 2:04 AM
are not many, but one…
S on November 5, 2008 at 2:04 AM
americalives on November 5, 2008 at 1:55 AM
Socalism-lite started with FDR, we are now entering the hard core phase. We have been most fortunate in keeping it in check this long. The rook has our king in check!
N4646W on November 5, 2008 at 2:04 AM
You’re far too comfortable among the Left assuming the Right is your rollover. The GOP may have lost an election, but you’ve lost a country.
S on November 5, 2008 at 2:06 AM
After the panic phase is over, I hope there are some among us who are up to the task of rebuilding the Republican party on conservative values - and aren’t so into name-calling and blaming. Becoming just like what we despised from the other side doesn’t seem like a good idea.
Maybe tomorrow, after the hangovers are cured, clearer heads will prevail. We’re going to need them.
It’s understandable to a point tonight - but I am making a plea for a cease-fire hereafter.
Cindy of TX on November 5, 2008 at 2:09 AM
Sorry, John McCain.
No binding the wounds of the country. No “accomodation” with this Marxist. No “settling” for crumbs as Obama strips our country of our freedoms, our wealth, our religion, and our right to keep and bear arms.
No truce with tyrants. He is not my president.
And he never will be.
georgej on November 5, 2008 at 2:10 AM
You’re far too comfortable among the Left assuming the Right is your rollover. The GOP may have lost an election, but you’ve lost a country.
S on November 5, 2008 at 2:06 AM
You’ve got to be kidding me. If I need to give credentials, my voting record is Reagan, Reagan, Bush, Perot, Dole, Bush, Bush, McCain.
The only reason I vote Republican (since Reagan) is because the far left is far worse.
But this slow steady move to the left has been accomplished though the unwillingness of the right to vote and act on principle.
Perhaps I misunderstand your comment
OneEyedJack on November 5, 2008 at 2:14 AM
mccain became the nominee because “real” conservatives spent the primary trying to figure out which candidate matched the image of a the mythical archtype of a “real” conservative printed on the inside of eache their individual asses.
for some it was romney, for others, huckabee. much of this effort to see in the dark was devoted to thompson. lol!
and the “real” conservatives contunue to run around with their heads up thier asses, claiming that what would have won this election would have been more of the “real” conservatives who lost their seats in 2006, like santorum and co..
people like csdevin are pathetic.
eh on November 5, 2008 at 2:16 AM
Oh, good, we can now use that for the upandcoming President Obama. Can’t wait.
Only WE can add, “Marxist, Communist, liar and deceiver” to “the pile of crap left over from the worst President in living memory…”
S on November 5, 2008 at 2:16 AM
Another moron opens his mouth and little balls of $hit roll out.
csdeven on November 5, 2008 at 2:20 AM
I wasn’t reading Hot Air comments nor commenting here (despite having a user account, at that time, not using it) during the competitions for the nomination among the GOP personalities.
I’m only reporting on what I experienced on other sites I was participating on, the gruesome and baseless nastiness by a few very outspoken McCain supporters as they lambasted Romney and belittled us who supported him.
I thought THEN what I still think now and that is that it was a Leftwing operation intended to create and continue infighting among Republicans, moreorless force a grand waste of time on meaningless arguments while nothing else was being attended to…
I would have voted for Thompson (who I like and agree with on key issues), or Romney, but Giuliani’s compromises on abortion caused me deliberations and Huckabee was never comfortable in my view for the Presidency. I just supported Romney from the start because his COMPETENCY levels are so superior to anyone else’s. I can’t understand rejecting the (highly) intelligent guy for the alternatives at that time, and, experienced a whole lot of condemnation on (preposterously nonsensical) “racist” accusations (how that even equates with supporting Romney, I have no idea) and defammation from fundamentalists for not supporting Huckabee.
I don’t know what occured here, didn’t experience or participate in it, can only speak from my own experiences elsewhere.
What I viewed and read from early McCain enthusiasts were mostly pro-illegal immigration people who seem to hate the rest of us in the GOP. And they sure did hate Romney.
S on November 5, 2008 at 2:25 AM
And, I concluded that Giuliani and Huckabee worked to out Romney in Florida to ensure a McCain nom (which came to pass). And why I thought and still do think that the GOP intended to lose this election. A lot of talent all seemingly dropping balls they’ve spent their lifetimes mastering carrying. Made no other sense than an organized loss.
S on November 5, 2008 at 2:27 AM
I’m worried about that, too.
S on November 5, 2008 at 2:30 AM
OneEyedJack on November 5, 2008 at 1:46 AM
S on November 5, 2008 at 2:06 AM
In a way your both right, but it is the Republic that lost.
I know a lot of people are POed at Bush for the bail out. So was I. But after looking at it, it was the right thing to do. There are a lot of other countries that are involved in our market. If we go down they go down. These countries although they may be socialist if their markets were further destroyed would be ripe for further socialist take over or worse yet be infused by Mid East money. They are struggling under the Muslim influx as it is. It is draining them. Europe cannot launch another Crusade against them especially with Putin on the lose and their economies on the brink. They would be open to conflict on two fronts, no funds, and the U.S. unable to help.
Those in Europe that were pulling for Oby got their wish. They are now put in a position where Bush can’t help them. They got what they wanted now they are basically on their own, as if this country (it will no longer be a Republic), moves as far left as I think it will,or as the great one has implied it will, we will just be the mouse that roared.
N4646W on November 5, 2008 at 2:41 AM
The whole “the GOP is dead” ruse is all too often the statement of astroturfers, or, otherwise, people posing as credible who work their Leftist deeds among online comments.
Sorry if I struck a bit too severely your way but your earlier post sounds far too Tokyo-Rosish for my senses.
S on November 5, 2008 at 2:45 AM
Well, Mav, in the end, you were Bob Dole Part 2: An elderly, maimed, vet who fought the good fight but just couldn’t beat the times. Nothing to be ashamed of. Ya did your best and we thank you for your service, both on the field of battle and in the halls of Congress (the 90% of the time you weren’t totally screwing us over.).
Special thanks, however, are due as you have given us a far more potent sequel than did Dole.
You gave us Sarah Palin and something to believe in again.
One last request, from a guy who voted for you not only yesterday, but also eight years ago in the primaries: with this new president and congress, better up that party-line voting percentage to 100%. These guys are gonna be throwing some stinkers.
Not like ya got anything to lose now.
SuperCool on November 5, 2008 at 2:45 AM
One thing we can count on-
McCain will sabotage any Republican effort to stop Obama’s agenda.
Valiant on November 5, 2008 at 12:57 AM
Pray tell how? I’m not putting you down, but it is now a dimwit congress. There is only a hand full of republicans with any spine left, and they will be quashed.
N4646W on November 5, 2008 at 2:48 AM
Once again, media explains the issue. Europe is mostly completely in the dark as to reality, what with their Liberal and limited media. Thus, they read glowing hype from the Leftwing wire services from the U.S. and France, repeated there, and they assume that’s what reality is as to the U.S.
I KNOW there are more levelheaded people in other nations who are concerned about tonight’s developments (and should be). Most of us just never get to read about that side of human opinion because of, yet again, limited media reportage: they only report “communism, communism, socialism, marx, yeah!” in terms of absent values and demanded loyalties. People who prefer choices or still believe that they are able to make individual choices, are ignored. That goes for Europe, that goes for the U.K.,, that goes for the U.S.
And Europe IS going to be grossly disappointed in the Obama White House. As are twenty-somethings in the U.S. when they realize they will have to work for slave wages, if that, for that $4,000. “college credit” that won’t buy them so much as one semester anywhere.
S on November 5, 2008 at 2:53 AM
I worded that first sentence (^^) badly.
I meant to express: once again, media is the explanation of why the conditions exist (I wrote, “media explains the issue” meaning, the cause of the problems are media).
S on November 5, 2008 at 2:54 AM
I worry about Valiant’s point, also. How that’d be possible (your point) is if and as McCain remains so eager to please “the other side of the aisle” in some vain expectation of Good Times. Not gonna’ happen, not with today’s ruthless Left. Their goal is to crush and eradicate Conservatives and trying to make-nice with them in the interest of harmonics and office parties and returned phone calls is a failed method.
S on November 5, 2008 at 2:57 AM
you really need to fuck off with your suddenly-active lurker account and embarassing statements.
eh on November 5, 2008 at 2:58 AM
heh. You’re unflappable.
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The country wanted change on domestic policy. They had the choice of more liberal or same-as-Bush. They chose more liberal. Too bad they couldn’t have a choice of more conservative.
Anyway, McCain ran a sh*tty campaign. I thought the popular vote would be closer just because Obama is so liberal. That shows what I know.
jaime on November 5, 2008 at 3:00 AM
im a black american. i felt so proud seeing Obama, but I am so fearful of what Socialism-lite will do to the American nation. I’m hopeful, but timid, I am a conservative, but an American first.
Here’s your chance President-elect Obama. Make our nation strong.
AmericaLives.wordpress.com
americalives on November 5, 2008 at 1:55 AM
Sadly it won’t be that way. Unfortunately Obama is a Islamic Marxist. He has other intentions. Not for any of us. He is not my President. There are other brilliant men such as Walter Williams, Steele, and Allen Keys who are all Black Americans. I would have voted for either one of them and proudly. I know how you feel though. But researching and reading about That One proves that he isn’t a good man. He won’t even prove he is legal citizen of the US. Born here. Then the National Civilian Security Force. Is that going to be the Black Panthers? What’s next?
sheebe on November 5, 2008 at 3:08 AM
S on November 5, 2008 at 2:57 AM
Yep, we’ve had two years of it so far and what do they have to show us for it other than control and now total control. They have morally and financially bankrupt the country and I’m interested in how they will solve it. A lot of small bussiness that I know of that are struggling to stay afloat, are already planning on down sizing to avoid taxes. Where will the money come from for the new society comrades?
N4646W on November 5, 2008 at 3:19 AM
eh on November 5, 2008 at 2:58 AM
Damn, we got rid of Drywall now this jerk
N4646W on November 5, 2008 at 3:25 AM
threadcamp away. all two of the one of you. when people advocate stupid positions by way of agreeing back and forth with a sockpuppet, people tend to ignore what’s being said altogether.
eh on November 5, 2008 at 3:33 AM
John McCain - probably the worst candidate evah!
Birdseye on November 5, 2008 at 3:48 AM
eh on November 5, 2008 at 3:33 AM
Your point being?
N4646W on November 5, 2008 at 4:04 AM
On McCain — only in movies does the action hero make the best leader of a nation.
On Congress and the Senate — they nearly bankrupted the world with just Fannie and Freddie. They will now have at least half a dozen new opportunities for social engineering on an even larger scale!
On Obama — he avoided vetting, danced through the raindrops and reached the top. However, standing where he is,the drop is long and he is holding a lot of rope. A lot of rope.
IlikedAUH2O on November 5, 2008 at 4:33 AM
Hero. The man who made me a Republican.
We’re talking here about organizing friends to do SOMETHING big for McCain. Buy him a gift, or something special. (For Sarah, I think we should pitch in and buy a new gun!)
joe_doufu on November 5, 2008 at 4:36 AM
tax boycott!! tax boycott!!!
LibertyBoyNYC on November 5, 2008 at 5:27 AM
Man up everyone. The media has spoken. Get over it.
sheesh on November 5, 2008 at 6:51 AM
I am still trying to understand how the majority of Americans could vote for a guy with the least amount of leadership experience of any candidate who has ever run for President in the history of this country. I don’t care what color he is, the guy is going to drive this country into the ground.
Plus how could Americans vote to give more power to the Democrats, knowing what they are now going to do with all that power?
Are people out there that blind or deceived to what is going on?
Where is the outrage in all of this?
Where is it?
pilamaye on November 5, 2008 at 7:11 AM
George Soros has bought you a president and the media agrees . . . what more could one ask for? Now, the parasitic underclass can just sit back and wait for their well deserved government handouts.
rplat on November 5, 2008 at 7:15 AM
Will see what Defense stocks do today.
Manning up to the reality and moving on. Its gonna suck.
For blacks, does this mean we can finally say the ’struggle’ is over? I hope the hell so.
johnnyU on November 5, 2008 at 7:22 AM
Florida was the state that did Mitt and all the others in. McCain should have atleast been able to deliver that traditionally red state.
DJ from MA on November 5, 2008 at 7:28 AM
Very classy concession speech.
rbj on November 5, 2008 at 7:53 AM
Goodbye and good riddance, John McCain. Go back to the Senate where you can sell us out some more. You suck. Your campaign was a joke and you deserved your fate. Too bad the country doesn’t deserve what we’re going to get from Barky the next four years.
Percy_Peabody on November 5, 2008 at 8:00 AM
THIS is the election that will never end as Obama’s propagandists perpetuate his campaign ad infinitum throughout his presidency.
You can tell yourself, thank God at least it’s over, but don’t fool yourself and don’t blame God for the choice our neighbors made. Obama’s coronation motto: Scio me nihil scire; I know that I know nothing.
All things considered, we made our consonant voice heard over the massive din of the world’s most wealthy and powerful dissonance. Obama has no popular vote landslide victory bragging rights. Conservatives have vetted many candidates this past primary season. We know who will coordinate conservative efforts, and how we must appreciate each others strengths in order to bond for a victory.
Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.
The world wants to be deceived, so let it be deceived!
Imperare sibi maximum imperium est.
To rule yourself is the ultimate power.
Fortitudine vincimus.
By endurance we conquer.
Buck up.
maverick muse on November 5, 2008 at 8:04 AM
Not “suddenly active” and immensely more active than your disgusting rant.
S on November 5, 2008 at 8:09 AM
Agreed.
S on November 5, 2008 at 8:10 AM
Where the **** is manly rash, I wanna knee him in the balls. I can’t believe I got taken in by all that “man the ramparts” ****. Unless he was out committing voter fraud for McCain he wasn’t manning any ramparts.
Darth Executor on November 5, 2008 at 8:17 AM
Woke up to find out our overseas military base has already raised the threat level:(
fsalw3 on November 5, 2008 at 8:24 AM
He is a great patriot who has served his country well, but possibly one of the most naive people I have ever seen. He lost the election because he brought a pea shooter to a gun fight. Worse than that, he doesn’t seem to understand that. I am sorely disappointed with McCain, sorely disappointed with the leadership of the GOP, sorely disappointed and apprehensive with what the majority of Americans have decided this election cycle. I think I will buy some hip waders because shit is going to run deep for at least the next 4 years.
Proud Texan on November 5, 2008 at 8:26 AM
I hope that all of the people who despised McCain and trashed him here over the last nearly year are pleased with themselves this morning.
You people won. And I and others who didn’t want to see Obama win lost.
You won. Captain Amnesty can’t hurt you now. You’ve got your “1976″ in the hopes of a “1980.” I’m going to remind you at every crisis that we have that this is what you wanted.
wise_man on November 5, 2008 at 8:27 AM
McCain wasn’t my candidate in the primaries but I was proud to vote for him yesterday. Let’s face facts — Obama spent half a billion dollars tying McCain to an incumbent President of the same party with a 27 percent approval rating… with the media piling on and calling a perfectly capable Governor, a credentialed reformer, an idiot 24/7 for a month. And notwithstanding all that, McCain outpolled George W (The Anchor) Bush by 20 points nationally.
I think the old man did a helluva job and I will always consider it one of the great honors of my life that I got a chance to vote for him. It’s the least I could have done.
You members of the circular firing squad want to guarantee Democrat supremacy for the rest of your lives, go ahead and fracture the party.
It’s too soon to say the basis on which a successful challenge to Democrats will be built for 2010 and beyond. That’s going to swing heavily on the exact specifics of what they spend the next 2 years f***ing up. Stay tuned.
DrSteve on November 5, 2008 at 8:35 AM
Honestly, I am surprised at the level of hostilitiy being directed toward John McCain this morning. I always envisioned McCain as being a carbon copy of Bob Dole–the aged warrior who was finally given the nomination after many failures to win it in the past. McCain was not my first choice in this election, either. He is, however, very classy and gracious in defeat. I admire the man for his amazing resiliency and his love of country.
WV736 on November 5, 2008 at 8:37 AM
And let me just add for our Democrat friends: Let the Disillusionment Begin!
DrSteve on November 5, 2008 at 8:37 AM
Let me just add that this was the finest concession speach I have ever seen. Kudos to McCain for a fine campaign and for delivering a speach that will prayerfully help America unite toward the common goal of making this nation greater today than it was yesterday.
12thman on November 5, 2008 at 8:53 AM
A true gentleman and a wonderful concession speech. As was stated, McCain lost because he was too much of a gentleman and totally naive of the GAME.
God Bless him and his family, and yes, he will continue to serve well in the Senate.
NJMaire on November 5, 2008 at 9:02 AM
Of course the campaign isn’t over. Campaigning is the only thing Obama has ever done in his life. What? You expect him to stop doing that? You might as well ask him to stop breathing.
PackerBronco on November 5, 2008 at 9:08 AM
You miss the point. The point of the complaining about McCain is to purge the party of milk toast candidates like McCain and to teach a lesson to the RINO’s who supported McCain.
So in that spirit I say to every McCain shill….
WE TOLD YOU SO! You idiots have given us 4 years of Obama and possible 3 liberal Justices’. Thanks a lot you douche bags!
csdeven on November 5, 2008 at 9:14 AM
It was perfect. More perfect than his campaign because it appears that he wanted to give THAT speech more than he wanted to be president. I’m sure he’s been practicing it since 2000.
csdeven on November 5, 2008 at 9:15 AM
Respectfully, I think you miss my point. No other candidate would have done better. If you disagree, I’d like to hear some details on the mechanics of how.
I know Romney would have had a more coherent economic message than McCain but at the same time had exploitable negatives (i.e. he’d get painted as an out-of-touch plutocrat and darling of the Republican establishment). I love Mitt to pieces but I understand that much…
DrSteve on November 5, 2008 at 9:22 AM
McCain delivers his best reach around the aisle speech yet. On cue.
Fletch54 on November 5, 2008 at 9:34 AM
And endorses Palin 2012!
chiefeditor on November 5, 2008 at 9:40 AM
I can’t believe people are comparing Bob Dole to John McCain. Bob Dole was an honorable man who was always loyal to his party and stood on principle more often than not. McCain has always lived for the sell out and the stab in the back. I was proud to vote for Dole in ‘96 even though I knew he stood only a slim chance of winning. He was one of the few honest men to ever run for President. I only voted for McCain because of the alternative.
Percy_Peabody on November 5, 2008 at 9:41 AM
ya know, i turned to the republican party after i watched the democrat party turn into the far, far, left circus. and what did you give me? classy ass john mccain. EPIC FAIL! EPIC LOSER! NO RESPECT! I RESPECT REPUBLICANS THAT STAND FIRM WITH THEIR CONSERVATIVE VALUES AND F-CKING FIGHT LIKE HELL AGAINST THEIR OPPONENTS. NOT LIKE JOHN McCAIN WHO SIT ON THEIR ASS AND DO NOTHING YET SCREAM THAT YOU SHOULD STAND UP AND FIGHT. WHAT A MOTHERF-CKING JOKE!
Nuge em on November 5, 2008 at 9:45 AM
John McCain was a good man who deserved to become president. He would have been a good president. His loss is ours.
tartan on November 5, 2008 at 9:47 AM
McCain made it as close as any R could have…indeed, would have been a great president. I’m proud to have supported him.
scrounge on November 5, 2008 at 10:06 AM
No to Obama! No way. No how. Do not allow them to govern…Mock, ridicule, obstruct, intimidate, attack, impugn, subvert, agitate, we are going to get reamed by these thugs now…fight fire with fire…FIGHT DAMN IT! Stop all this cumbaya bull crap…
elduende on November 5, 2008 at 10:34 AM
OK, you’re not hearing me. Complaining about McCain sends the message to the RINO’s that we wont follow again. We real conservatives held our mud and supported him 100%. And what did we get in return? Exactly what we said we would. A candidate that was more interested in “getting along” and losing with “honor” than actually putting his country first by stopping a socialist from getting the opportunity to nominate three justices.
Never again. We will purge the party of the RINO’s and it starts by throwing the most visible RINO under the bus. And his shills.
csdeven on November 5, 2008 at 10:38 AM
First of all, I don’t begrudge a gracious concession speech. It is appropriate and respects not only the opponent but the constitutional system. It respects democracy.
However, there were some things said in the speech that made me choke. For example, this:
There is no doubt that this election was going to be difficult, but it was there to be won. Sen. McCain, for some unknown reason, hogtied himself. Apart from Rev. Wright, about whom much has already been said, there were other issues. The organized electoral fraud, the illegal fundraising, the Rezko connections etc etc etc.
But the most egregious ommission, in my view, was the failure of the McCain campaign to sieze the economic crisis issue. Why he refused to name names…Sen. Dodds, Rep. Franks and, yes, Sen. Obama consistently and hard I will never know. I am left with the impression that he spent so much time attacking Pres. Bush, and being bipartisan, that he was/is no longer able to place blame on Democrats even when it is justified to do so. Maybe he was as afraid of a false claim of being associated with Pres. Bush as he was of the false racism allegation. He has spent so much time being bipartisan that he has forgotten that the system is partisan. His supporters are partisan.
But Sen. McCain may be incapable of partisanship. As such, he went into the fight unarmed. And hoping for support from allies who he constantly attacked with a force that Republicans could only dream of being aimed at the Democrats.
And so, McCain was bipartisan to the end and was true to himself, if not his party. In the end I was left with the impression that, when he made the speech, he was making the concession speech he had waited his whole life to give.
Blaise on November 5, 2008 at 11:08 AM
Thank you Mike Huckabee.
diogenes on November 5, 2008 at 2:27 PM
One day you will suffer a loss. Hopefully a great one. Or be in physical pain. Or have some event that will bring you down. But you will have never suffered as much as John McCain as, as he has suffered many times in his lifetime.
Please - I want you to know, that whenever you suffer a hardship, there is someone out there with the last name of wiseman who would be delighted to take pleasure in your pain and tragedy. I’m just sorry that I can’t do this to you in person. Now eat sh*t and die, you disgusting POS.
wise_man on November 5, 2008 at 5:01 PM
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