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McCain delivers his best reach around the aisle speech yet. On cue.

Fletch54 on November 5, 2008 at 9:34 AM

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.

However, there were some things said in the speech that made me choke. For example, this:

I don’t know — I don’t know what more we could have done to try to win this election. I’ll leave that to others to determine.

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.

DrSteve on November 5, 2008 at 9:22 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.

The president that some think is the worst in a century will be leaving office soon. After almost eight years of being maligned and reviled, however,these words are worth considering. It seems that no matter what Mr. Bush does, he……

csdeven on November 5, 2008 at 9:14 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…

12thman on November 5, 2008 at 8:53 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.

DrSteve on November 5, 2008 at 8:35 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!

THIS is the election that will never end as Obama’s propagandists perpetuate his campaign ad infinitum throughout his presidency.

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.

God Bless him and his family, and yes, he will continue to serve well in the Senate.

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.

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.