In retrospect, isn’t Barack Obama’s charge that electing John McCain meant more of George W. Bush more plausible, now that we see the Republican Party embroiled in a toxic post-defeat fight, and John McCain, the……

1. How many people who are experts on international finance are broke?

2. Being willing to lay people off in the short term in order to improve the prospects for companies that expand and create MORE jobs portrays a willingness to CUT government rather than raise taxes and expand it.

3. Romney presumably would have been able to speak about the economy with fluency. Neither Obama nor McCain (much less Biden and Palin) were models of coherence on issues economic. McCain made a fool of himself by flip-flopping on consecutive days on the AIG bailout and continuing to harp on “earmarks” without context — it was as if someone told him it was a post-hypnotic keyword through which people would pull the lever for him whether they wanted to or not. With the assistance of the MSM, Obama was portrayed as “Mr. Cool” on the economy when in fact, he did NOTHING, on purpose; the Dems bemoaned disingenuously that “Presidential politics would just get in the way,” so Obama said ‘Just call me if you need me.’ Not what you want in a Chief Executive, or at least that was the CW when Bush was on vacation in Crawford.

4. A guy who promised to jack up electricity costs and creating circumstances that will destroy the coal industry won in both states after the economy collapsed. Howie Nell did THAT “fly”?

In fact, I would argue that the very fact the drive-by media kept asking if she was qualified showed their awareness that she really had no other perceived weakness. Otherwise, they would never have talked about qualifications and taken a chance on people asking just how qualified Obama was.

The DRM/MSM, mostly totally ignorant of her existence, could only latch onto Troopergate and the Bridge to Nowhere as a knock on Palin. Other than that, all they had were the tininess of Wasilla (or, as Obama said in an interview with Anderson Cooper, “Wa-silly”), the meager per capita population of Alaska (never mentioning that it is the largest U.S. state) and tabloid trash about her family.

Other than maximizing her miscues (and minimizing those of Biden and Obama) and turning them into questions about her intelligence and the “Kill him!” smear spun from whole cloth by Obama fanboy reporters, there’s not a lot of negative stuff about Palin that doesn’t disappear into the ether once someone asks, “So what?”

I work next to a nice woman who nonetheless hates Palin with a passion, and I have endured overhearing her Sarahphobic conversations with like-minded workmates. When she started up again with the $150K wardrobe shullbit two days after the election, I finally decided I’d had enough.

As politely as I could muster, I asked the Palinhaters “How much did Obama spend on his suits?” Blank stares before “Uh, I don’t know…”

I couldn’t agree with you more, JEM and highhopes! Romney was the BEST candidate with the best record on the family values and has the smarts and experience that could have turned this election around–especially if he had been the PRES NOMINEE as JEM stated.

Just imagine what a great ticket Romney and his WISE choice for VP would have made! Many who voted for Obama out of fear of the McOld / Inexperienced ticket would have gone with Romney.

The Huckabee bigots should be apologizing BIG time for playing interference in the Pres primary and for sending letters THREATENING McCAIN THAT HE BETTER NOT CHOOSE ROMNEY as his running mate. The colossal freakin’ gall of these idiots!!!!!! And many of them are so hateful that I think it’s not a stretch to believe that they are happier with an Obama presidency than a Romney-anywhere on-the-ticket winner. Utterly pathetic!

Shelby on November 10, 2008 at 9:55 PM

Good God! The Romney-bots are back. I hate to tell you this, but your guy would not have been a good choice for VP in this economy… An ultra-rich businessman who made his money by “restructuring” companies (i.e. laying people off) was not going to fly in places like Ohio or Pennsylvania.

No, fiscal conservatism. I can sort of remember what that is…

That’s what the left does. Anyone who runs as a Republican will be investigated and smeared. What we saw happen to Sarah Palin will certainly happen to Bobby Jindal or Matt Blunt or any other candidate we put forth. In fact, watching how fast it happed to Sarah Palin is very instructive.

Attempted smears mean nothing. Smears that stick because they’re true are the things to worry about.

I was not an early Sarah Palin supporter, but if you watched how well she campaigned and how enthusiastically she was received, we’d be very foolish to let smear attacks disqualify her.

In fact, I would argue that the very fact the drive-by media kept asking if she was qualified showed their awareness that she really had no other perceived weakness. Otherwise, they would never have talked about qualifications and taken a chance on people asking just how qualified Obama was.

You hate Huckabee.

You hate Palin.

My conclusion: You hate Evangelicals and don’t want one in the White House.

Had the GOP had the sense to nominate Romney he’d be President now.

No he wouldn’t. No Republican was going to win the presidency this year. There was a “perform storm” of sorts brewing against Republicans this year and unprecedented media support for a candidate that NO Republican would have overcome.

As for Jindal, this isn’t exactly news. He said as much dozens of times in interviews around the time McCain had all the potential VP candidates spend the weekend at his place. He made no secret that he wasn’t interested in the nomination, preferring to serve the governor term that he just won.

I was originally a Giuliani booster, but Mitt had the executive ability and wanted the job enough to work for it. I don’t think I could ever have worked myself up to vote for Huckabee, he’s really an old-fashioned Democrat, and I agree that his influence on the election was probably deleterious.

Had the GOP had the sense to nominate Romney he’d be President now. Okay, he’s hedged on his past positions a bit. I still find it troubling – no, worse than that – that his Mormon faith seems to be more of a roadblock to his getting the GOP nomination now than it was to his father back in 1968.

JEM on November 10, 2008 at 7:48 PM

I was an early Romney supporter despite his Mormon creds. He is a proven leader in business and government, has the best record on the family values most important to me, and presented the real possiblity of swaying both Michigan and Mass. to the red. Of course he isn’t perfect on his issues but he was a far sight closer than any of the other wannabes.

It’s pretty damned amazing to me that this Mormon thing keeps coming up as an issue. We’ve just elected a terrorist sympathizer socialist who spent over two decades attending a church that hates white people and Romney’s LDS background is the roadblock to the White House???? Potential Huckabee supporters really need to get a grip on reality.

highhopes on November 10, 2008 at 7:57 PM

I couldn’t agree with you more, JEM and highhopes! Romney was the BEST candidate with the best record on the family values and has the smarts and experience that could have turned this election around–especially if he had been the PRES NOMINEE as JEM stated.

Just imagine what a great ticket Romney and his WISE choice for VP would have made! Many who voted for Obama out of fear of the McOld / Inexperienced ticket would have gone with Romney.

The Huckabee bigots should be apologizing BIG time for playing interference in the Pres primary and for sending letters THREATENING McCAIN THAT HE BETTER NOT CHOOSE ROMNEY as his running mate. The colossal freakin’ gall of these idiots!!!!!! And many of them are so hateful that I think it’s not a stretch to believe that they are happier with an Obama presidency than a Romney-anywhere on-the-ticket winner. Utterly pathetic!

JC did a Colin Powell this time because he said that the GOP was insensitive to blacks.
Forget JC-he’s done.

What Watts said is that Republicans have written off blacks the same way Dems have taken them for granted. Disputing a report he supported Obama in a June interview with Sean Hannity, he said the following:

“What I said in the article was that I was a free agent. No one should assume that J.C. Watts should vote one way.”

I haven’t heard from J.C. yet, so I will assume he’s made no announcement whom he voted for.

Men are the ones who have had the political power and media influence in this country. If all men were opposed to abortions they, combined with the sizable minority of women who are opposed to it, could eliminate it.

Easy to say, difficult to illustrate. Or, maybe it’s easy for you. So go ahead, tell me the form an organized, forceful, male-driven abortion group would take that wouldn’t meet a female backlash that would overwhelm it.

Mike Huckabee is John McCain + speaking skills. That’s NOT enough to beat Obama. Let him stay on Fox News with his boring show and crappy band.

it’s fine..I am pretty sure you follow what I consider to be greek/roman paganism kinda Christianity and pawn it of as “real”, but obviously I don’t think it is.

Never quite thought of it that way, did you?

Some of you have the logic of a gnat.
Now I find it interesting about someone falling on his sword for McCain.

What I was objecting to in your comment was the singling out of women as if they are the sole or major reason abortions occur. It wasn’t necessary and I don’t think it’s accurate.

I’m hard-line pro-life, including abortifactants like IUDs and the morning after pill. Including rape, incest, and genetic defects. The whole enchilada. I believe in parental notification as well as fathers’ rights.

Yes, you are right that many men are unaware that they have fathered a child and those children are aborted without their knowledge. Many other times, women are pressured into having abortions by the men that fathered those children or by circumstances that would have been better if the men in their lives stepped up to their responsibilities.

Abortions are legal in this country because men are every bit as supportive of their availability as women.

Men are the ones who have had the political power and media influence in this country. If all men were opposed to abortions they, combined with the sizable minority of women who are opposed to it, could eliminate it.

Y-not – yes, it clearly is. You are accepting the commanded destruction of one (or possibly many) human lives that might be of value in order to get rid of one (or a few) human lives of great virulence.

JEM on November 10, 2008 at 8:08 PM

That’s the nature of war.

Fortunately, our new administration isn’t planning on cutting high-tech weapons systems in favor of… oh… wait.