Gail Collins in The New York Times:

“Thanksgiving is next week, and President Bush could make it a really special holiday by resigning. . . . Dick Cheney, obviously, would have to quit as well as Bush. In fact, just to be on the safe side, the vice president ought to turn in his resignation first. . . Then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi would become president until Jan. 20. Obviously, she’d defer to her party’s incoming chief executive, and Barack Obama could begin governing. . . Can I see a show of hands? How many people want George W. out and Barack in?”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/22/opinio n/22collins.html?_r=1

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For 18 months, the Obama campaign intentionally, explicitly and repeatedly accused Bill and Hillary Clinton of personal racism and resorting to racist campaign tactics. Does anyone remember the “picture darkening” accusations?

This was picked up and parroted by Obama supporters, the blogosphere, the MSNBC/CNN/Olbermann/Matthews wing of the main stream media, and various political figures. It is now accepted as gospel in the black community.

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http://voices.washingtonpost.com/reliable-source/2008/11/replindasanchezpregnantnow.html

It’s actually going to be funny, listening to people who attacked Bristol Palin defend Linda Sanchez. And, vice versa, of course.

They are obviously in different situations.

One is a private citizen, and a kid, and had an “accident”.

The other is a public official, and an adult, and the pregnancy is wanted.

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Cheney lied us into unnecessary wars. Then, Cheney personally profited from those wars through his business interests.

He endorsed torture, twisted our constitution to suit his purposes, and generally fits Joe Biden’s description of him as “the worst vice president ever.”

Republicans should agree. Cheney betrayed all their conservative economic principles, did nothing to advance their domestic agenda, and discredited their foreign policy credentials. During their 8 years in power, Cheney, Bush and Rove reduced the Republican party to irrelevant minority status.

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Does anyone remember that the entire Obama critique of Hillary Clinton was based on foreign policy. Obama argued that Hillary voted for the war in Iraq, and therefore couldn’t be trusted with U.S. foreign policy.

She had “flawed judgment” on Iraq and Iran.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/11/obama.clinton/

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After 12 years of nearly complete control of Florida politics, Republicans lost the state to Obama.

But, although Obama won Florida, the Democrats didn’t. While Obama was carrying Florida by over 3%, Democrats were picking up only one seat in both houses of the Legislature, which remain overwhelmingly Republican.

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Why does a conservative stay in the Democratic Party?

Because Republicans can’t decide whether Stevens should be kicked out.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/773542.html

Because Republicans steal (I’m sorry, misappropriate) campaign funds.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/southflorida/story/773519.html

And, because they just don’t get it.

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Palin chose to have five kids.

Palin chose to deliver a Downs baby.

Palin made her choices.

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Pro choice used to mean pro choice. Not pro abortion, but pro choice.

Pro choice should mean anti forced abortion.

So, why the radio silence from the pro choice and women’s rights groups on China’s policy of forced abortions?

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My first car was a very ancient, very rusted MGB convertible that I bought for $1200. It had split batteries (always running dry) that you could only access by removing the rear jump seat. It was beautiful to look at but an engineering nightmare. Its basic design was from the days when cars were driven for fun, only on weekends, and only by the rich, and car owners had a “man” living over the garage to take after their horses and dogs and tinker with whatever broke on the car. It was not a good car for a college student who couldn’t fix it himself.

The manufacturer of this vehicle was British Leyland.

British Leyland Motor Corporation was created in 1968 by the British government.

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Thanks to “new” voters, Obama turned Florida blue.

McCain received only 48.4% in Florida, or 3,938,166 votes.

Obama won 50.9%, or 4,142,174 votes, and took this swingiest of swing states.

However, the Florida Marriage Protection Amendment did better than either.

In a state which requires constitutional amendments to obtain 60% to pass, “Yes” for “marriage protection” received 62.1%, or 4,758,737 votes. “No” received only 37.9%, or 2,909,086 votes (including me and my kids).

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Obama owes Kerry. After New Hampshire, the momentum could have switched. The story could have been, “flash in the Iowa pan, South Carolina means nothing, Hillary wins the bigs”. But, within days, the 2004 nominee endorsed the insurgent. And gave him his mailing list. His contact list. His donor list. His nationwide ‘machine’.

Obama owes Kerry big. If Hillary was going to stop Obama, that was when she was going to. Kerry stopped her for Obama.

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The revised national turnout rate for those eligible to vote was 61.2% or 130.4 million ballots cast for president, an increase of 1.1 percentage points over the 60.1% turnout rate of 2004, but less than the 1968 turnout rate of 62.5%. Sorry, no record blowout.

Of course, there are still outstanding ballots to be counted (including absentee, provisional, and write-in ballots). But, earlier estimates of 133.3 million ballots or more were way too high (largely) due to an over-estimation of absentee ballots. But, don’t tell the press – - these facts don’t fit their stories!

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I’m a conservative Democrat, a former elected official and a current elected county (Democratic) party official.

I could not get behind Obama, so I followed the advice of Old Thom Paine (“Lead, follow, or get out of the way.”) From convention to election, I got out of the way. I stepped back from my party and the so called ‘progressive’ blogs.

Now that the election is over, I’m still a Democrat. But, I still haven’t bought “the dream”. I didn’t fear the apocalypse, but I don’t anticipate the rapture.

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From atop yesterday’s Daily Kos rec list: “Bill Ayers speaks out”
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/1 1/8/91912/5042/585/657424

The second sentence says it all: “You can agree or disagree with actions of the Weather Underground years ago . . .”

Of course, on kos, the comments all seem to agree with the actions of the Weather Underground.

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