So essentially we had a Socialist and a Democrat to vote for this year.

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descriptive enough for how disgusted I am by this man. And I can’t find any phrases that are apt without them being against posting rules. So I will just say that I am grateful that we didn’t succeed in electing this bum to POTUS.

With the ones who did get elected, we know we’re gonna get screwed, it’s expected and we can prepare for it. With this man, it wouldn’t have been much different, but we would have had the ignominy of being screwed by our own guy.

I am also grateful that Sarah Palin’s career in politics will not be further tarred by having to carry any more water for the likes of John freaking McCain. No wonder Joe the Plumber was horrified by his time with this guy!!

…can’t even back up his own running mate? Then, the first governor he names is Pawlenty? What about, say, Sanford or Jindal? (I don’t know Huntsman, although from looking him up I read that he’s a fan of Dream Theater, which scores him some points in my book)

answer meant to Sarah.

I suppose McCain does not feel that he owes Sarah any gratitude because he did her such an honor by naming her as running mate.

Very instructive. Seems the Palin choice was mostly expediency on his part. Sarah is worth ten McCains any day as a campaigner, and I hope we have not seen the last of her as a national figure.

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Let’s hope the good people of Arizona manage to field and elect a good Republican to replace him in 2010.

I will forever revere and thank Captain John McCain for his service and sacrifice for this great country. I am done with him as a Republican Senator.

…McCain’s behavior and words about Sarah Palin here.

Adam C said some “not very nice things” to those of us who supported Fred in the primaries. He took offense to those of us who did not care for McCain due to his “non-conservative” behavior prior to his running for president.

However, with that said, I know Adam C does not frequent this site anymore and therefor is not in a position to defend his position at that time. Due to that reason, I will not criticize him. However, I would just like to know his take on this post.

It is only a wishful thought anyway.

The sad fact of the matter is that McCain is a “Republican Main Street Partnership” member who despises conservatives. He just bit his tongue for the election to get the base to vote for him. Now that the election is over, he can go back to despising conservatives again.

The Republican Main Street Partnership was formed to combat conservatives and reach across the isle to “work with Democrats”.

Now that didn’t take very long, did it?

running for his seat NEVER has one man in the Republican party engendered such hate and disdain and NEVER has one man deserved to be treated as the pariah he is!

Whoever has his enemy at his mercy &
does not destroy him is his own enemy

This is why I detested this man as the GOP candidate. What were primary voters thinking to get this man the nomination?! A complete an utter embarrassment to the Republican party.

He never has and never will fit the conservative agenda.

There are times to work together with the libs, but most of the time the bipartisan mantra gets thrown back in our face.

The only reason his feeble campaign got the boost it did was because of Gov. Palin.

Just stay there then we know where your at.

Just stay there then we know where your at.

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I’m actually starting to be glad Obama won (shudder).
In addition to some of the reasons given above, it gives us a chance to #rebuild, and we can make squishers like McCain either stand up for what’s right and really works FOR this country or get the heck out of the way for someone who will.

I have a feeling the Obama voters will shortly find out why voting for someone you are clueless about was a bad idea, just as we’re finding out voting for someone you know well is sometimes equally bad.

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Chip in to get rid of “Babs” (Yes ma’am) Boxer.

The “Maverick” is back and the MSM and the Dems are thrilled. McCain = double agent. Working for them while pretending to be one of us. As bad as Obama will be for our country, I find some small comfort in knowing that McCain will never be President.

“Sorry I said all those mean things about you, President Obama. Sarah Pallin made me say them. Let’s get together for lunch some time and discuss Global Warming and amnesty for illegals.”

Let’s be fair here. McCain would be really stupid to back himself into a corner and swear up and down that he would definitely support Palin for president in 2012. I mean, there are so many “what ifs”. For instance, what if he thought that she was qualified to run for vice president, but not quite yet ready to be president? By the way, I felt that same way after watching the Couric interview. Her wonderful convention speech and her perfect debate performance gave me a lot of confidence in her, and I thought that, maybe by 2012, she might be ready to run for president–but who knows? What if she’s not? And, what if McCain feels exactly the same way that I do?

Not to mention, believe it or not, he knows a lot more about her than we do. What if something that she did on the campaign trail gave him pause? What if, after spending some serious time with her, he doesn’t think that she’s ready yet, but that she might be in 2012–but he’s not sure? Hey you are free to disagree with him, but it’s his prerogative to make his own judgements about her preparedness without being labeled as a “backstabber”.

Not to mention, we don’t know what could possibly happen in the next four years–suppose she gets caught up in a scandal or her popularity goes down? (By the way, I think that this is highly unlikely, but anything is possible).

And finally, what if he thinks that she is totally qualified, but thinks that someone more qualified, or better suited to the specific political environment, might run in 2012 (someone like a Mitt Romney or a Bobby Jindal who can discuss the economy more fluidly than Sarah Palin can)? Palin was a great VP candidate during the summer, because she was able to discuss energy policy and being a “reformer” in detail. However, I think that Romney would have been a better VP candidate for McCain to have had during the financial crisis–but hindsight’s always 20/20. Anyway, my point is that we don’t know what the political circumstances will be in 2012, or what the “hot button issues” will be. Just look how much the “hot button issues” changed throughout this election cycle–from high gas prices and the success of the surge being the hot issues in the summer, to the financial crisis taking center stage in a matter of months. And, part of being a successful candidate is being the right candidate for the right times (see Barack Obama and “change”).

Look, I am as big a Sarah Palin cultist as the next person (I was constantly getting in arguments with my Obama supporting mom, because of my vigorous defense of her). However, I also think that only a fool would pretend to know exactly what the political environment will be in 2012, and, therefore, what kind of strengths a candidate will need to be successful in that environment. Palin might wind up being the perfect person for 2012 (I hope so, because I really like her). However, new unforeseen problems might arise in the next four years that require areas of expertise that some other candidate (like say Jindal or Romney) has that Palin doesn’t have on quite the same level. Furthermore, some new political star might come out of no where (see Barack Obama–no one had heard of him four years ago). In other words, some other candidate may be more suited to the 2012 environment than Palin is–we simply don’t know what skills or qualifications will be required of a candidate to run successfully in that political environment. And, McCain would be a fool to wed himself to anyone, when things could change so drastically in the next four years.

McCain probably did her a favor. I don’t want somebody McCain approves of.

that McCain doesn’t give a horse’s patooty about whether Palin runs in ‘12. He is madly scrambling to regain his maverick status. And as far as his beloved D and I voters are concerned McCain would be better off distanced from Palin. Period.

Worships in the Church of global warming and will declare that republicans that oppose amnesty and cap and trade are betraying their country and playing on our fears.

LOL! Not likely, sir..;

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1208/16562.html

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She just gained support because McCain won’t support her.

He is now a has-been.

As for Palin, She has a long ways to go before she can mount a successful challenge for the Presidency. If she is smart, she will concentrate on re-election, then run for the Senate to recapture the lost seat.

That would give her time to build her resume even further. Running for President in 2012 is a losing proposition for her.

When members of his own campaign staff slurred Palin in a most reprehensible manner, McCain was slow to defend her, and even when he finally did, he failed to name names or bother to criticize the culprits. She deserved better then from McCain, and she did today also.

Till now as far as I know…the only time he’s been out there comment about the campaign after he went down in mavericky maverick flames was when he was on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno…When Leno asked him what he thought of his campaign staffers snipping and back biting concerning her he dismissed it as something that happens during a campaign…

Later in the interview he engaged in a back and forth making fun of the lie that Sarah was behind the cloths fiasco and shopping at Neiman Marcus

I’ve always loathed the man though I’ve respected his service to our country because of his self righteous blow hard way of dealing with issues and his opponents but he’s reached new lows since the fiasco that was the McCain Campaign ended. As far as I’m concerned he’s proven to be nothing short of detestable since November and should be retired in 2010!

The “Big Tent” analogy isn’t the correct one…the correct one is a MAGNET…we need to be a MAGNET that draws these independents in who are sick and tired of what’s going on in Washington—Fred Thompson

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It will be a GREAT BADGE OF HONOR for her to NOT receive his endorsement…. McCain will want to support some other wishy-washy “Moderate” candidate….

Having another huge field of candidates will also be a mistake and hurt like it did this last time… Will leave people fractured and many will be pissy again and not support the Ticket because “their #1 choice” isn’t atop it! McCain was at the bottom of my choice list, but I had to support him once he became the candidate… and that was basically his ONLY qualification (yeah, good on earmarks… but as President he would’ve caved in the name of “bi-partisanship” and “cooperation”… all that BS)

This is John McCain reaching across the aisle to join with the Democrats and their Beltway friends on the issue of Sarah Palin.

PS: Isn’t it odd that John McCain’s definition of Bipartisanship does not encompass Democrats reaching across the aisle to join with Republicans? It only ever goes one way.

The nice thing about McCain is that he continues to make me feel better for having supported Romney.

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 To me, “consensus” seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects … There are still people in my party who believe in “consensus” politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors … I mean it.
      - Margaret Thatcher
NOTE: “consensus” = “Bipartisanship™”/”Centrism™”

John McCain never understood the fact why Conservatives love Sarah Palin, he thought he could make the GOP love him because he calls himself a maverick and tried to call Palin a Maverick and thought that would make us like him more. Well, just because John McCain tried to make us think he was like Palin we knew better, did he think we all lost our memories and forgotten amnesty John, or McCain-Feingold, etc….? We did not. We held our noses and worked hard for that ticket for two reasons and two reasons only:

1) Sarah Palin - awesome, awesome, awesome CONSERVATIVE.

2) Stop Obama

It actually had nothing to do with McCain at all!!!

Sarah Palin needs to continue doing what she is doing with one exception - leave McCain out of any future speeches and leave him behind all together.

and McCain has been roasted over the coals. But I know I am not willing to commit to supporting Palin, heck, The One has not even been sworn in yet, 4 years is a long time these days.

Her presence on the ticket, and the subsequent slander from the media, caused McCain’s ticket to nosedive.

I didn’t need to read the rest because you’re obviously completely clueless.

So, just because I’m a nice guy, here’s a free clue.

B-A-I-L-O-U-T

That’s why McCain went into a nosedive. And it wasn’t just his support of it. It was the stupid pet tricks he played with it before ultimately supporting it.

Hi: Not sure how cool this is to do, but I think my post from another diary fits perfectly in here as well.

http://www.redstate.com/martin_a_knight/2008/12/14/dear-sen-mccain-go-suck-a-lemon/#comment-459

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Senator McCain.

I wish to honestly thank you for two things and advise you regarding a additional matters.

First. Your service to The United States Of America as an officer of The United States Navy and going into harms way more than anyone should ever be required to do. Your fortitude under unspeakable conditions as a P.O.W. is beyond reproach.

Second. It is an honor to know your dedication to The United States Of America is at the forefront of everything you do.

Now then, in all honesty, I can’t believe that you believe that you can still “reach across the aisle” and work with people like Harry Reid and “The One”. They are dangerous at minimum and quite possibly traitorous in their words and actions.

On to another subject……… With all due respect Senator, don’t you ever and I mean DON’T EVER think of running for any other office again. In fact, I’d take it as a personal favor if tomorrow, you’d announce you’re not seeking re-election to The Senate. If you do decide to attempt another term, or seek another office, you haven’t the slightest idea what ‘The Wrath Of RedState’ will bring down upon thy personage in rebuttal of oratory and counter-campaigning in positive concert with your primary opponents.

In the matter of Governor Palin, how dare you, Sir….. HOW DARE YOU be part of besmirching such a fine American. The sole reason you received more than (I think this is a good guess) 25 percent of the popular vote was because of Governor Palin. If anybody ever again asks you about Governor Palin, please simply say, “A fine American, a true patriot and she will indeed be on the national scene restoring America to greatness.”

When in doubt of the seriousness of all this, please re-read the previous items and understand I have ‘a slight affinity’ for my country as well. You and I just see things a tad differently.

Thank you for your time and God Bless America.

Are We All REALLY STILL finding ourselves? What stage are we IN?

Anger?

It appears we’re getting past denial and getting into anger.

Get your head out of u’re butts.

Let’s GO!!!!!

is why you lost the election. I understand why you might not have wanted to endorse someone before the 2009 inauguration, but you could have found a way to avoid doing so while supporting the woman who saved your campaign from a complete blowout.

Ugh.

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She was the only candidate that had any class in the election and talk about grace under fire … her grace is the stuff of legend.

McCain hasn’t changed one whit. He was and remains a self centered jerk. The democrats and the MSM nominated him in the early primaries as the easiest to beat.

If he is extreemly fortunate history will grant him the footnote of a footnote of having brought Sarah Palin into the National arena. Otherwise he is completely unmemorable