I’m sitting here with tears running down my face…proud to be an American, proud that we could elect a black president. I don’t agree with his politics, and I can only hope that he moves in the right direction, but it is a proud moment, none-the-less. I think the tears also indicate a feeling of relief…the conservative movement needs to regroup, and a McCain presidency would have stalled that. Our ideas will stay around. Have heart, all…

We will never get this party right until we start looking critically at it. Obama just won Virginia and Florida. He might win NC. If we don’t act now to change this party for the better then we are doomed to a generation of socialism.

Time to start recruiting now.

We must support overwhelmingly the remaining GOP Senators. They are our firewall.

Staunch_Lib’, the purging has happenend. Just as Americans voted in 1994, they have now.

The GOP is at it’s base now with the elected officials we have left. We must forgive their past votes that have grated we conservatives so, and buck them up now and into the next two years. The pressure on them will be surprisingly intense.

Michael Steele for RNC Chair!

Palin-Jindal 2012!

There better be some heads rolling at RNC headquarters, starting tomorrow.

And there better be some new minority leadership in the House and Senate too.

I’ve been reading Red State since summer and love it. Especially since I am from one of the Bluest States, Massachusetts.

The same bull was thrown at us here in 2006 with Deval Patrick, he and Obama are the same. Hope and change, yes we can and/or together we can. I had hoped that the people here in MA had enough of Patrick but they still voted for Obama and even though there was finally someone to oppose Kerry, not the best candidate, but at least one, they still voted him right back in.

I enjoy reading here, especially about conservative reps like Cantor and governors like Jindall. I hope there are more on the rise.
Thank you.

I pray for more conservative candidates so we can reclaim the house in 2010. I also hope, no prayer wasted here, that we get more than 5 Republicans in our state legislature. A prayer would be a waste on that in MA.

This was a foregone conclusion, from the moment McCain was selected.

The Republicans have moved away from what made them successful. They’ve become anything but conservative — a spend-a-holic, war-waging party that is about as far from “fiscally responsible” as you can get.

The party continued to ridicule and shun anybody who had a truly conservative philosophy, and in the end, they got what was coming to them.

Things are completely splintered, and until the party is ready to reunite as a CONSERVATIVE party and not a neoconservative one, there won’t be a meaningful Republican force in government for a while yet.

Because the GOP refuses to move forward. As long as die-hard evangelicals and far-right conservatives control the reigns of the Republican party, you will continue to bleed votes.

I’m not a Republican. I’m not a Democrat. I’m an American. And I’m angry.

I didn’t want Obama to win. I wanted Giuliani, or Romney. YOU wouldn’t let that happen. YOU forced McCain to pick a Veep that essentially gave him nothing. Would McCain/Giuliani have taken Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida? Would McCain/Romney?

Until the day that the GOP begins to embrace the center-right, the left will win. When this party begins to realize that the younger American generations care about trivial stuff like global warming (gasp!), healthcare, a regulated economy, that’s when the GOP will begin to regain momentum. As of now, that brand is as good as dead.

God, I’m mad. I remember reading stuff on this board about how people would withhold their vote if Giuliani were to run. Are you still saying that???

God help us over the next 4 years.

[blam – NS]

We know this because Obama won. He ran on no ideas at all.

Or perhaps you simply weren’t looking at what ideas he had because they were so different than your own.

Republicans will need to learn that the United States is no longer a center-right country, it is now center-left. To appeal to these voters — new voters, minority-majority voters, progressive voters — the GOP will need to have a deep and analytical look at their platform and figure out what didn’t work.

John McCain didn’t lose the election, Barack Obama won it. For Republicans to win again, they need to understand how and why Obama won, and then respect the conclusions. Saying that Obama “had no ideas” is not the way to start preparing the party comeback.

McCain’s speech sounded a message of grace, humility, hope, and commitment. It was wonderful.

Had those wise themes been sustained throughout McCain’s campaign, then it might have been a victory speech.

I don’t think the pick McCain was the right one in the first place.

Second, Palin helped. Big time.

Third, Getting angry now. Just now?

Forth, Wait till 2010.

What’s done is done. Pointing fingers less than one hour after the concession is counterproductive.

Wait a day or so. Think about it a bit. Consider what happened, why it happened, how it might have been avoided, and then propose a plan of action. A “throw the bums out” plan will not necessarily help anything.

Let’s be adults here. Sometimes the bad guys have to fail before we can beat them. This may be one of those times.

that’s all.

But I was told today by a somewhat gloating self-denying lefty that I “had a new boss”. In my view my boss never changes and so I told him “Obama’s not my boss, he’s just the next President”. The Constitution is my boss and the President is the person who I hope will exercise good judgment in the use of my brothers and me. I hope Obama will surround himself with decent advisers… I’ll take Colin Powell for instance. But if we start seeing Alinksites pop up in the nominations I know that we’re in for a rough road.

I do agree that we need to prop up the current crop of Senators and Congressmen. But we need to look forward at what the next four years will likely bring and that has been hashed out here before. We need leadership.

Leadership akin to Newt Gingrich and Michael Steele and Bobby Jindal and yes, Sarah Palin. True conservative leaders who can articulate our message and lay it on on the line for the people to understand, even in bubble gum language. We need John Boehner and Roy Blunt. We need Jack Kingston.

Steel yourself gents and damn the torpedoes and hoist the black flag. We sail into a harsh sea that has no safe harbor until we create one. We’ll have to take it by force and make the inhabitants understand what happens unless they allow us refuge. The Republic needs saving… and only strong, principled, conservative leaders will accomplish that.

Any thing else? I’m too terrified to think about it.

My gut has the same feeling it did as when I saw South Carolina go for McCain…
I went to his meetings because of
Sarah Palin and to beat Obama….
You cannot win race on a Vice President, and you cannot win a race to defeat your
opposition.
You must win on your own ideas….McCain
was not running a race on winning ideas in a bad economy.
I still say he lost it in the first debate…he was stuck on earmarks…..
Obama created the “middle class” theme
at that debate, and McCain cound not
pivot to chang his focus….
The sun will come up tomorrow….we have
several businesses….
We have no choice but to take a look at
where we stand to survive. We have already cut down on office overhead as
much as nongrowing economy allows us to do. Our employees have had to take on more of the burden then we want.
We are concerned about the people that work for us. In order to stay in business and have jobs for the few, we are forced to make painful decisions.
I cry for them….where do they go??

pushers who pushed McCain and Maverickness upon us as the only chance at victory. Remember: Some of us told you that the Dems tried that with Kerry and lost. We warned you.

Stand up and take your lumps–don’t sugar coat it, don’t downplay it, don’t “but it could have been worse.” You were wrong.

Let us no more compromise upon the fundamentals of conservatism for the sake of electoral spoils.

McCain was a compromise–not with the middle of America–but with the Left. Who, as the results prove, had no interest in considering him.

When we agree that we cannot ever again afford to compromise, to yield, or falter: Then we can move forward for victory.

For the first time McCain looked beat when he gave his concession. And rightfully so. I do not believe McCain ran on any egotistical delusions. I think he ran because he truly does love his country.

He was classy and insightful.

As neat as Obama’s story is, now the rubber hits the road and he has to lead.I have heard some talk of Jackie Robinson today. But Robinson rose to the occasion and was actually a great ballplayer. Had he been mediocre he’d have been sent down like any other player. History ahs been made. Time to think about the future. Will the One rise up?

Going forward, it is time for conservatism to make a comeback. We cannot rely on traditional geography anymore. Liberalism, or at least, blue-ism has been spilled all over the map this year.

How do we do this? I am not exactly sure. But we can learn a lot from Obama. An energized base, a massive ground game and credit card fraud can go a long way.

May as well just head over to the National Archives and burn the [expletive deleted] Constitution, because after this charletan removes his cloak of “centrism”, joins forces with Pelosi and Reid, and starts putting scores of total liberal [expletive deleted] crackpots in the federal courts, the United States of America as founded and intended by Washington, Madison, Hamilton and Jefferson will be no more.

This is the [expletive deleted] end. I hope every one of those that voted for Obama are pleased with what they have done. You have set this country on the road to European socialistic mediocrity.

YIPEE!!! We get be be just like everyone else. Nothing special. Nothing unique. Because to do so is to be arrogant, unilaterialst, selfish.

By the way…congratulations to all of you out there with a family income of $100K or more. In about 4 months, you are going to instantly become “rich”. And if you aren’t “rich” in 4 months, you sure the Hell will be when the Bush tax cuts are allowed to lapse in 2010.

There’s no “good news” here…

Despite the DEMOCRATIC Congress having an approval rating that starts with a “1″, which is even lower than “the worst President in US History”, the proletariat have seen fit to send EVEN MORE DEMOCRATS to Congress.

You have seen the self-appointed “fourth estate” (the press) abandon any pretext of “objectivity” to see to the election of a COMPLETE UNKNOWN. Do you realize there are entire YEARS of this man’s life that NO ONE knows about, and the press did not seem too [expletive deleted] interested in exploring in any great depth (well, except for that conservative hit squad at FoxNews).

*This *is what conservatives will confront in the next 2-4 years. Press conferences will be love-fests. The major media will be the propagandists for the Obama Administration (I am close to vomiting even having to type that), and the few strong voices on the Right will be silenced by the Fairness Doctrine.

Maybe “our institutions” could have survived in the old days, but this is a new day…a day of “change”, and the powers that be won’t make the mistakes they made in the late 80s and early 90s, which opened the door for the “Revolution” in 1994 (and what a ringing success that turned out to be). The demographics, the numbers of persons more than happy to let government be their “daddy”, the numbers of idiot youth that have known only Clinton and Bush II as the President, all of these have totally shifted the electorate from that which existed in 1980 and 1984. There are no more Reagan Democrats (and if there are…they weren’t even enough to stop an unabashed socialist).

I defy anyone to find a single history book (even some of the most leftist tripe out there) that even hints that what is in the offing is even a shadow of what the Founders had in mind when they created this nation. Of course, once Mr. Smith at the Ministry of Truth gets finished, I am sure that’s exectly what the History books will say.

For the Obama supporters…your guy won, bully for you! I am sure there were plenty of people that were happy that Mao, Pol Pot, Stalin, Hitler, and similar demagogues were running the show and a good number of them ended up on the bad end of the deal by the time the dust settled.

As for me, I’ll be fine. I’ll probably make loads of $$$$ since any chance at meaningful tort reform is dead and buried. More lawsuits means more need for defense lawyers getting paid by the hour. I am sure Obama will be able to find plenty of people for his Civilian National Security Force from the hundreds of thousands of people that will be unemployed because of his hostility to coal and oil production, not to mention the businesses that will shed workers like dead skin to save up the $$$ to pay the new tax bills. Of course, I am sure that all those people that voted for Obama won’t give a damn when their energy bills “skyrocket” (his words) because of his energy policies. I mean, Hell, Obama’s gonna pay for their gas, their mortgages…chicken in every pot, man.

Let’s be honest here…

Both of the policies of these candidates sucked (at least, to the extent you could actually pin them down on one). It got even worse once you looked at their records (of course, you really couldn’t look at Obama’s record since he did not have much of one in the US Senate, and his record in the Illinois Senate had essentially been purged [probably not the last time you hear that word in association with Obama]).

McCain was pro-amnesty. To the best people could tell (with the exception of his Kenyan auntie) so was Obama.
Both were for the abortion of a bailout bill.
Both are for silencing political speech (McCain [McCain-Feingold]; Obama [Fairness Doctrine]).
Obama was for taxing “the rich” and cutting taxes for 95% (yeah, figure that math out considering 40% pay no income taxes). McCain was for cutting taxes.

The only real separation was on guns, abortion and international relations, and with the economy going to Hell in the last two months, and the media’s full court press on the issue, the joe average voter could give two [poops] about dead babies, the 2nd Amendment and whether the US was attacked by swarms of terrorists…they wanted CHANGE damnit!!!!

I will close with this, I hope to God that I am wrong about Obama, the Dems running Congress, the policies they will put in place and the judges they will put on the bench. But I have a Master’s Degree in History, six years of teaching American History (4 in college, 2 high school), 10 years in the legal profession (3 as a student and 7 as a lawyer) and a buttload of historical and political knowledge, and that tells me I am not.

God Bless the USA…we’re going to need all the help we can get!

It is time to remove these limp wristed, pseudo-conservatives that believe the BS that the path to victory is appeasing “the moderate voter”.

Conservative ideals are what propelled Reagan, and they will propel the next leader. Unfortunately, we were given a candidate that did not mirror what is the conservative party and in my opinion did not campaign like he wanted to win.

A new era of far left ideals will be hoisted upon this great nation beginning 1/21/09. Ideals that will, I believe last long after my soul has left the living world. It is an unfortunate reality that as much improvement we have made since 1994 will likely be undone.

Tommorrow morning I will awake, energized and ready to fight to bring conservative ideals to my little corner of the world, but I have no doubt, that in the short term, we will envy Sisyphus.

McCain’s economic policies largely mirrored Obama’s policies… that is how it became about personality. Support for huge unpopular taxpayer financed bailouts, free money for homeowners who don’t pay their mortgages, you name the liberal economic policy and McCain was on board.

There was essentially zero difference between them on economic issues, and if people were foolish enough to believe Obama (many were), McCain was actually to the left of Obama on taxes. That was a recipe for a guaranteed loss. Why vote for the old white guy who is an Obama clone when you can vote for the original and get hope and change thrown in for free?

moment. Obama is not the cause, but the result of this historical shift. Over the past decade the country has moved sharply to the left. This is undeniable. Obama ran as an unapologetic leftist, and won. He never moderated his campaign to the center after the nomination because he didn’t have to.

The country wanted a left-wing President. Not a moderate like Clinton or even Carter, but a real European style social democrat, with all that entails. Why this is the case is for the historians to figure out.

We are heading into a downward spiral of recession, statism, defeatism and appeasement abroad that will make the 1930s look like a great period. The country will need our leadership, so as the post says, lay off the recriminations!

The silver lining here is that election of Obama effectively removes one of the burdens we have borne as a nation, the unfinished business of the civil war. It’s a great thing to have a black President, as always we leaad the world in this. However, Obama was not elected because he is black. He was elected because he painted a seductive portrait of a left-wing paradise that he will usher in.

We have to face the fact that he is what the people wanted now.

I said it above. The time for the circular firing squad is not now. They didn’t reach 60 seats; Mitch McConnel is a great Minority leader! We need to introspective. And as I predicted, people are blaming Palin for this loss. The fact is it would have been much worse.

Folks we need to find our Conservative voice once again, and find A Conservative voice to speak to this nation.

People are hungry to be led; that is why Obama’s ability to speak swayed many people! We don’t need a smooth talker, but we do need someone who is able to explain it to the American people. Virture is hard, teaching Conservative principles is hard. It is easy to tell folks will give you money or a check; it is much harder to explain why you’ll feel better earning it yourself.

I don’t really care if you blame McCain or Palin or Bush or whoever, the grim fact ahead of us for the next two years is that 41 GOP senators are all that will keep us from Obamacare or Associate Justice Hillary Clinton or the vicious return of the windfall profits tax or the return to the kind of progressive tax structure that would make Marx himself proud or any other number of horrors from the pit of deepest Democratic foolishness.

First, we must bolster our Senate minority. Let them know we support them and are working to return them to the majority, but in the meantime we need and want them to stand up for us and against the gluttonous excesses of the Democratic Party. Forget bipartisanship that is a thin veneer over giving the Democrats what they want: we have to stand up for our principles or else we have nothing, and our Senate minority needs to understand that.

Second, we need to encourage the GOP House. 2010 will be coming all too quickly and we need to encourage the GOP to force the Dems in red districts to choose between following Pelosi or staying electable in their districts. Overall the GOP minority in the House these past two years did a pretty good job of it, but they will need our encouragement to give as good as they get and to make us proud and looking forward to the day we can reclaim the right to be the majority party.

Past that, I haven’t thought ahead that far.

What is done is done, but i do not believe that means there should not be some finger pointing.

First:I believe that we did not have a chance with Mccain as our standard bearer, he was and is a blue blood republican not a conservative and because of that we did not have a chance.

Second: In the last thirty years the only times the GOP has had large victories is when they had and supported conservative idea’s (80 reagan,94 contract with America, 2000 Bush) ask yourself what was the one thing that truly difined these victories.. Tax cuts and smaller goverment.) now granted Bush then went on to spend like a democrate but the first election was about tax cuts. This is our winning issue. Hell Obama used that tactic against us “95% of american’s will get a tax cut”.

Third: I can not beleive that our country wants to go into a western European model of socialism. As a party we did a miserable job of contrasting ourselves, it took a plumber in Ohio to even bring the topic up. Why did this happen?

1. we have forgotten the faces of our fathers the founding father’s that is. we have forgotten they lessons they taught us. we no longer teach there words or promote their idea’s
2. It is politically easier to spend taxpayers money, then to tell the american’s that we are out of money and need to tighten our belts, we have lacked the political courage to address the tough issues.
3. we thought that we could bring Democrats to our side, and that we did not need our base

In short we forgot who we are, we can not win as the party that will spend less than the democrat’s and expand goverment less than the democracts. that is a recipe for being the loyal minority.

Untill we remember who we are we will not win again. Now is the time to find the conservative canidate in our states support them fund them,Blog for them. It is time to start over and we need to be the vocal supporters for conservatism.

On this dark night watch these vidio and get your spirit back so that tommorow we can fight again. That is what Reagan would do.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xynQSSNlYuY&feature=related

Just remember it is darkest before the dawn, and now is the time to get off our butts and spead the conservative idea’s they are winning idea’s.

Obama is a symbol. He won on symbolism. Look back at all the actual symbols he created. The logos, the posters, the seals.

He himself became a symbol. Right now , tonight, he is a symbol that America is no longer racist.

tomorrow he will be a symbol of whatever people want to him to be.

We lost to that symbolism.

Running to the middle will be a disaster for the conservative movement. McCain’s huge mistake was constantly talking about reaching across the aisle. It is the domestic equivalent of meeting with enemies without preconditions.

We have to move to the right. Smaller Government, less spending and all that of course.

But we also need people who are inspiring, who can deliver a speech, who are symbols of our ideals and ideas.

Think of Reagan. His speeches were incredible. i was too young to appreciate them then. But they give me a great hope when I listen to them now. Obama is an stumbling mumbler when compared to Reagan.

Think of Lincoln. None of us heard him speak. But read his words. They are amazing descriptions of what conservatism is all about.

We have to reject this notion from the left that taking a stand will offend people. If our principles are offensive to the left, to our enemies, to the press and to the European masses, then we are probably doing something right.

In the worst year imaginable for Republicans (unpopular incumbent, Wall Street meltdown, increasing job losses…), Obama won by 3 points, grant it with a wide electoral majority. This election margin should have been on the order of Mondale or McGovern losses…each guy carried one state. The takeaway is that Barack will have a very small reservoir of goodwill, and a short honeymoon.

Our party needs to be constructive in getting back to a pro-growth, limited government agenda. But we also need to be begin a relentless assault on Obama. One thing that threw Clinton off balance leading up to 1994 was the appointment of a special prosecutor soon after he took office to investigate Whitewater….the stuff that Obama has engaged in with Rezko makes Whitewater look pretty trivial by comparison.

After a decent interval (about a week), we should begin the push for a special prosecutor to investigate how the Obamas purchased their house in Chicago. This strategy worked in 1993, and the Congress was even more Democrat that year than it will be come January.

In my opinion, this was a slaughter. The D’s now have the reigns to run the country we all love so very much. It’s difficult to enjoy the future years of Schedenfruede against what we all know in our hearts is a destined Democratic disaster.

It’s difficult because it’s apparent Obama has a masterful spin machine and may make us all believe it’s OUR fault that we cannot put food on the table or provide a decent education for our children over the course of the next four years.

It’s apparent that he’s already looking for the next term, and that has GOT to be the weapon we use to leverage against him his entire 4 years. We will NEED to make sure the country knows why this coming callamity has occurred.

Do not let up on any failures. Follow the money. Make him as grey haired as possible.

This slaughter now gives the D’s a backdrop for all the country to see them and their policies, philosophies, theocracies (or lack-thereof) against.
Let’s use that backdrop as leverage to make CERTAIN we win 2010 and 2012.

Dear Folks:

I’ll be breaking my comments into a few things. Something to be alarmed about for 2010 especially since we’re a lot closers to 40 seats instead of 50 seats. We have another 19 seats up for election.

I suggest in 2009 we start giving money every paycheck of month to Republican candidates now.

Money was tight for me, but I wound up giving over a thousand dollars to political causes. I got over twenty senators donated to over twenty senate racees and thirty house races.

Imagine what thousands of us can do over two years. That’s how Obama built his large war chest.

Walter Hanson
Minneapolis, MN

To paraphrase:

‘The Republican party beat up on itself and the Democrats didn’t.’

The example he gave wes Claire McCaskill condemning Bush for the loss of jobs when in fact 7 mil. new jobs have been created under Bush.

My example would be this whole plan of “running away” from Pres. Bush. He won re-election during an unpopular war in ‘04. Bush hasn’t made all of us happy all of the time, but truth be told, he’s done a fine job as president.

To Everybody who said that the Palin pick was a disaster this race today was 51 - 48% because of Palin.

She bought in excitement that Mccain didn’t. She bought in money that wasn’t coming in. She allowed us to seriously talk on the national campaign about drilling for oil and using energy.

Trust me this allegled country that has gone to the left when polled thinks over 70% we should drill. How on Earth do you get 22% of people who don’t support your president candidate to agree with that! because it’s right. We need to hammer that and Palin will help. Especially if she starts talking about how the Alaska pipeline has to be shutdown if production can’t stay above 300,000.

For those people who criticize Palin any pick would’ve been attacked by the media just like Palin was.

Walter Hanson
Minneapolis, MN

In the Senate, those acting like moderates and screwing over the base got creamed. Dole, and others (Coleman and Smithare in trouble because of this) would not have lost had they not “reached across the isle” on the bailout bill.

In two years we have some very nice targets. Senators in Washington, Oregon, and California are all up. The reseccion should be deep by then from the tax incrases. The tax cuts (welfare checks) will be too small and the Senate will have just attempted an amnesty bill.

Should be a good year. Too bad we will have had to gone through hell to get there.

This is Exactly the time for finger-pointing, brass knuckles, and purging the hell out of people. It is a cop-out to say Obama won on “style”; every election has its element of intangibles, but we can’t lose sight of the fact that this election, our message was rejected by voters. The GOP means what these days? A humble but forceful world presence or clumsy foreign policy adventurism combined with nation building? Do we stand for holding the line on spending and letting people keep their hard earned income, or raising the size of government and handing our future generations trillions in debt?

I believe we must start with foreign policy. If we continue down the path Bush has started us on: a war with the wider Middle East, an Israel-first policy, and the unwillingness to use other statecraft to achieve our objectives in the region - we will be in the wildnerness for a while to come, and will deserve to be, in my view.

Folks:

Please read this whole post before you think I’m trying to be racist. I’m just trying to make a point about something that I heard on Fox tonight and a major problem we have to solve especially to try to win the presidency in 2012.

In 2004 John Kerry got 88% of the black vote when it was 11% of the voting group.

In 2008 Obama got 95% of the black vote when it was 13% of the voting group.

Do the math.

Kerry’s black vote was 9.68% of the vote. Bush with eleven got 1.21% or a net loss of 8.47% percent of the vote.

In 2008 Obama got 12.35% of the vote. Mccain got .52% or a net loss of 11.83% of the vote.

that is a net change of 3.36% of the vote. Doesn’t that sound like the difference in the national vote for Mccain and Obama.

Furthermore in Virginia, in North Carolina, in Florida, in Indiana, in Ohio, a 3.36% swing in the vote was huge!

So I know we have been trying to address how to get blacks to vote Republican for years, but know it’s a crisis point.

So does anybody have any good thoughts.

Walter Hanson

Let us Pray our Nation survives it.

Funny, when a campaign is ahead in the polls, all of the other perceived “sins” go away. When Sept.15th hit–and everything Republican became radioactive–we suddenly heard that the woman who energized our convention and base was now suddenly a “drag” on the ticket. I believe the word for this phenomenon is scapegoating.

1)Gov.Palin represented an outreach to Reagan Democrats and working class folks. She engaged and excited these voters, articulating the issues of regular middle class Americans. We captured a good many tonight, against incredibly stiff headwinds. Given the current economic landscape, let’s be careful not to label a 52-47% loss as some kind of catastrophic, realigning election. Obama should have won this thing by +15 points.

2) This freshman governor’s resume is as full as freshman Senator Obama’s is empty. In the year of the crude oil shock, she was a great choice for VP given her expertise in energy exploration and production. Obama isn’t even mildly conversant in these kinds of topics, given the Democrats’ fear of producing our own energy.

3) Finally, Sarah Palin has served notice on the Democrats that women voters are not some monolith. Liberals reagard conservative women as traitors, conservative blacks as Uncle Toms, and conservative gays as “pathetic” and “self-loathing.” Liberals treat women like some large herd of sheep, guided by sheepherder Nancy Pelosi. Facts are, there are security Moms, hockey Moms, single working mothers, and so on….many are conservative Republicans and/or Independents. And many are pro-life folks, so get over it, Pelosi. Gov. Palin made this case very effectively, driving a wedge between the Democrat party and a group they presume to “own”.

And beyond all of this, Sarah Palin endured the creepiest attacks from the left (feminists aren’t for women; they’re for LIBERAL women!) with grace, humor, and sheer guts. She served our party–and this campaign–like a true champ, and I hope we will see her again.

It won’t happen…I don’t have any inside info but it’s pretty obvious to me that a deal was made at CPAC that Romney would be the establishment candidate this year if he’d step aside. The Establishment and Romney’s Surrogates have already started the sniping war a couple weeks ago by trashing Palin.

It’s obvious they will need to destry her to make way for Romney 2012….and I for one am not laying down for it!

Oh…and lest we forget…the Maverick is back in the Senate ready to work his “Bipartisan” magic and “Reaching across the isle” voodoo!

It’s time to decide what we stand for if anything and stick to it. The days of putting partisanship aside to appeal to moderates and independents must end. It’s time for the time honored and tested Conservative principles that we’ve abandoned since 2004 to take center stage and those that want to expand the tent at the expense of those principles need to step aside. They’ve driven the bus since 2004 and they put us in the ditch…we’ll take it from here thank you very much!

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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..last night when McCain was bowing before the one. I am sure that Palin & McCain had a few words before they came on stage. I am sure Todd had to hold Sarah back from kicking McCain in his ACORN’s. I am pretty sure Todd Palin will run for Congress and Sarah will try for the Senate. This is a family to watch. I at least take the comfort that Obama lost Texas by almost one million votes.