You have my family’s prayers. Govern well and do right by our troops. You will be there Commander-in-Chief.

I will give him all the respect that has been given to GWB over the past 8 years. He has earned nothing less and deserves nothing more. I will always respect the office of POTUS, but he deserves nothing. Respect is earned, not given.

I want to tell everyone how much I’ve enjoyed these past few weeks. We did our best, but it was not good enough. So, we pray for President Elect Obama, and for our nation.

We do not join in with the circular firing squad; we become introspective, find out how we lost our bearings, and regain them. First and formost, we must move again toward those Conservative ideals which we have strayed from.

We must find our voice, and find A voice who can speak to a nation!

I love you guys, and I mean it! I will be back!

Dear Directors:
Please ban new accounts for the next couple weeks. I fear the gloating trolls will be excessively thick. I am sick enough of the this garbage from the MSM. We don’t need it here. I want some place I can come and be among friends.

Thank you for working hard to get your candidate elected, for taking an interest in the future of our country.

I spent my day today as a poll worker here in Arkansas. We were swamped — some people had two and three hour waits to cast their vote.

I was so happy to see people willing to spend so long in line, sacrifice their free time, to make sure they exercised their combined right and responsibility to vote and make their voices heard.

I didn’t care who they voted for — I was just so happy to see people get out and vote.

Thank ALL of you for getting out and voting, thank you for working to get the candidate you thought was the best one get elected, thank you for doing your best for your country.

Even if we may disagree as to what we think is the right thing for our country, I admire and respect all of you for caring enough about your country to do everything you can to make it better.

I can not yet respect the decision of the American Voters. I can not yet respect the future POTUS. My respect for him has yet to be earned. I can say that I will do my best to continue with an open mind, but the feeling of mistrust has already been ingrained by the campaign. I wish Obama the best, and I promise that my prayers will be with him, with me, with America. Respect is to be earned and not given. Earn my respect, and prove my fears wrong, then I will emphatically admit that I am wrong. Until then, I remain a skeptic…A bitter American clinging to my guns and religion. A watchful eye is still necessary to ensure our rights.

I know its over. I aint that stupid. I wish I were.
Remember all the negative stuff about the new, unknown, and untested George W. Bush in 2000? Just think of all the negative stuff they said abut the now historic George W Bush.

Will they say the same about another historic unknown,

Mr. Barack H. Obama?

Respect is accorded to the office and the man chosen to occupy it along with support via prayers.

Having said that I will humbly join the Directors in the fight for our country and what we believe in (and having a potential leader that can field-dress a mooose wouldn’t hurt.)

A proud resident of one of the reddest counties in GA and my hope is that God will continue to Bless America; especially now in our greatest time of need….

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I will not congratulate him on a “well-fought” battle, nor “fought well.”

The MSM won this for a man who is demonstrably different from the man who ran.

Jen Brunner won this for him in Ohio after a truly banana-republic-style election system.

He ran as conservative, though he is not.

He received less proportional scrutiny in two years than Sarah Palin did in three months.

I feel truly sorry for our troops who will, on January 20, become subordinate to this man. Your pay is about to go down. Your respect is about to go down. If you thought Clinton raped the military, giddyup.

The only silver lining is that this died-in-the-wool Marxist was elected before he was truly able to affect the change socialists would desire. If he was elected in eight or more years he would be a truly dangerous politician. As it is, he is an unaccomplished and inexperienced politician.

Hopefully, America’s first Marxist president won’t accomplish what he says he wants to do.

That he might not be able to deliver “in one year or even one term”. Wow, that was quick.

at this point. I hope Europe survives this decision (along with the Middle East).

To Obama: That you will not veer even further left than your campaign promises.

To Redstate:

Thanks for being my mental elixir online. Thanks for fighting in what really matters. Thanks for being my home.

I leave both sides with Roosevelt:

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat”.

I can NEVER congratulate a man who won an election by cheating, bullying, lying, stuffing the ballot box, and all the other things Obama did to pull this off.

I will pray for this country, that it might survive this foul marxist’s regime.

You might say I have no class, but let me remind you that it was Obama that flipped off both Hillary and McCain. He is both immature and a creep. He is not ready for the challenges facing him and his cronies, and believe me, our enemies will take advantage of this!

but America is broken. We have a population of young voters that vote for president the same way they vote for their favorite American Idol. We have an America that has defeated war heroes in almost every election of the last several decades.

We have an America that believes individualism, self reliance, and God given rights are subservient to stimulus checks and the “cool factor”.

We have an America dominated by anti-intellectual entertainment, millions won on game shows by being smarther than a 5th grader, and people who all know Oprah, and few know Sowell.

We have an America dominated by a MSM that is so hateful to Republicans, they are simply a branch of the left wing movement. We have and America where the NEA and radical professors indoctrinate our young while bashing our civilization until it is of no value to them at all.

We have an America so worried by lawsuits, fear mongering, attacks of racism, that we have lost all control of immigration and we have failed to require immigrants to assimilate, as their precursors did.

I think in many ways, the genie has already left the bottle. I think we have failed to keep the Republic Franklin gave us and warned us to covet. I think decadence is what lead us to this point. Decadence, in all its manifestations ended Rome, and could end our Grand Experiment.

I am not talking about gays or even abortion, I am talking about a populace that as a whole failed to study our forefathers, failed to learn why were were special, and lost the reason to defend something they no longer cared about.

Maybe we can turn this around. My prescription will always be Goldwater-Reagan libertarian-conservatism. But our problems as a nation now are that we no longer speak a common language, rhetoric, logic, history, to so many they are as foreign as Jakarta or Boise.

Without a common heritage, without a desire to keep the Republic, how will we ever come together? Our party has failed miserably, the facts are there. But this is not 1964, or 1976, this is 2008, and it is quite possible that the Silent Majority does not just need a leader, but it simply has ceased to exist.

The office deserves all the respect it is due, and I pray, clinging to my bible and mossberg 500 that our new president elect with govern with humility and wisdom.

I’m starting to wonder if the 70% of people that disapprove of GWB are right.

Then tomorrow, you stand up for the principles of conservatism and move forward.

Anyone ready to run on the Change train in 2010?

And if you ever need to get your Ire going again, just play a few Rev. Wright sermons and remember what you’re fighting against.

Obama…you’re an embarassment to this country! You represent the slippery slope of “style over substance”…nothing more.

Taking advantage of good hearted Americans is your only skill…you vacuous empty suit!

Socialists, Marxists and Populists have no place in this country.

May your true colors quickly become apparent.

This veteran’s salute will be for America, NEVER for you!

If my comment is deemed disrepectful by the good people at Redstate, and I’m banned…so be it.

dubito ergo cogito
cogitio ergo sum

congratulations my ass. I am not like you people I guess I hate to lose.

He is not now or ever will be my president. Nor will any Dimocrat have my respect.

They have lied, cheated, stolen, done everything except murder to get where they are and I will not yield.

We either stand up and fight or we become a footnote in history. We cannot no longer by little milquetoasts behaving like wimpy Oliver Twist begging for more gruel.

Stand up and fight.

This is my first post to RedState. Since my political leanings are center-left rather than to the right, I will only post when appropriate and never to be a troll (and frankly I think ‘appropriate’ posts from someone on the outside of this community like me should be few). I visit RedState because I appreciate the high level of the discourse here.

I just wanted to express my great respect for the graciousness of this site at what must be a difficult time. This is not meant to gloat or take pleasure at your expense. In defeat, you are living up to the highest ideals of America, wishing the new president well but recommitting to the fight to make America better.

I’d also like to concur with those who have posted that respect is earned rather than demanded. Certainly the office of the POTUS deserves our respect. Barack Obama must earn it. I hope he does but only time will tell.

I decided that Obama’s win has made my life simpler. I got home and tossed out all of the charity mail that I was collecting–I always donate to a number of charities at the end of the year.

This year I’m not going to donate a dime except for a couple of exceptions. Since Obama promised the world to Americans and promised to take care of the poor, sick, homeless and those people who don’t pay any Federal Income Tax, there is no reason why a conservative and conscientious citizen like myself should give any of my HARD EARNED MONEY to charities.

I’m going to print up a letter and send it to each charity:

Pay $50 to [fill in the blank], signed
Barack Obama

Since Americans were so stupid to believe the “chicken in every pot” campaign that Obama waged, then I figure that the people who voted for this idiot should help out the poor and needy.

I’ve had it with being abused, maligned and insulted.

To hell with Obama and his liberal fascists. Let them take care of the needy.

Oh, that’s right, until quite recently Obama and his wife only gave about .01% of their income to charities.

Black people are singing in the streets. They seemed to believe that they have been delivered to the promised land. They don’t seem to realize that Barack will not be able to buy all of the blacks in this country an education, get out of jail card, house, car and a job.

The news media did everything in its power to lie and distort to get Obama elected. Obama is an absolutely pathetic person who doesn’t have an ounce of integrity or character.

We will now see how the liberals will fix all of the problems in this country.

This congratulations crap needs to stop. This freak is a illegal fundraising, ACRON vote stealing, gansta thug. He stole this thing and should be frog-marched from his slum-lord Rezko bought home. I wish him and his ilk nothing but to rot in a Kenyan jail. “Thye bring a knife, we bring a gun.” Wake up you pansies, you’ve be took.

This congratulations crap needs to stop. This freak is a illegal fundraising, ACRON vote stealing, gansta thug. He stole this thing and should be frog-marched from his slum-lord Rezko bought home. I wish him and his ilk nothing but to rot in a Kenyan jail. “Thye bring a knife, we bring a gun.” Wake up you pansies, you’ve been took.

Seems like this is normal politics…heh.

Let’s congratulate the winner and hope for some spoils…geez.

Can’t we all just get along…well no damn it! These guys believe in everything that we despise! If you don’t actually believe that, then just say so…

I have never been prouder of John McCain than when he spoke tonight. He clearly took the high road that no politician
has trod in the last several decades. I knew that he was above the fray, as he has been all campaign, but this was
concrete proof. Yes, I wish he had jumped in the mud with the rest of the “win at all cost” crowd (his country’s future at stake and all…), but he showed us tonight what it means to be an AMERICAN.

I am also a true American, and will from this day forward call our next President “Mr. President”. And I encourage all true Americans to do the same. Us true Americans should leave the name calling and vitriol to the trumpeteers of the last 8 years. It will (and does) speek volumes.

So, from this day forward… HE is our President, and I will defend him and his (my) country to my last breath.

of POTUS, like I did when Bill Clinton occupied the office. I will respect the man when he earns it. If he does not earn my respect, he will not have it. If he behaves like Clinton, he will earn my scorn. But whether he earns my respect or my scorn, I will be relentless in my opposition to those policies he wishes to implement that I feel will destroy this great country that I love so much. And I ask nothing more or less from everyone else who calls themselves conservative.

Bush never got one. The Dems for 8 years said he was selected and not elected and illegitimate. They obstructed his agenda wherever they could, (even when they voted for it - like the war).

Obama’s socialist policies will ruin this country and we shouldn’t act as if he gets to do what he wants because he won and elections have consequences. If this and the 2006 election teach us anything is that we can’t roll over and be “honorable.” We need to stand up and show that we have a pair. That hooey! Nice guys finish last. The Dems have been relentless in their attacks on the GOP and now they have a friggin near super-majority. And this isn’t about revenge, either. It’s about fighting fire with fire, getting conservatism back on track and rescuing this nation from its horrible mistake.

For running the grandest money laundering internet scam in history. For stuffing ballot boxes nation-wide.
For hiding who you are from the American people.
For turning a free media into a lapdog.
For despising our Constitution.
For hiring FNMA crooks to leadership roles in your campaign.
For turning a freedom loving people into a mob.
Congrats for nothing.

1. For bringing Chicago-style political corruption and intimidation to a national level.
2. For raising untold millions of illegal foreign and domestic campaign contributions through a system without even modest levels of controls.
3. For effectively hiding your complete disregard for the Constitution and its irrelevance as written by old, white, European males centuries ago.
4. For calling for a “fundamental transformation” of America and effectively labeling it, “change”, while really pedaling an old and discredited
   Marxist agenda of wealth redistribution and a political philosophy that government should manage its citizenry by taking from each according to his ability and distributing to each according to his needs.
5. For insisting that the Bill of Rights was a modest first step and that a second Bill of Rights is needed to guarantee that all Americans are beneficiaries of certain goods and services regardless of whether they were earned and regardless of whether they must be confiscated from others.
6. For proving that dishonesty and corruption can, at least sometimes, overcome honor and integrity.
7. For proving that symbolism can prevail over substance and competence.
8. For proving that playing the ‘race card’ can still be an effective strategy in the 21st century.
9. For pinpointing a defining moment in history where American exceptionalism has peaked.
10. For preparing the world for America’s unilateral disarmament.
11. For proving the Founding Fathers wrong in their belief that a free press would not be collectively corrupt.
12. For proving the Founding Fathers right in their grave concerns about the “tyranny of the majority’.
13. For demonstrating that we really don’t need to be our brother’s keeper, or our aunt’s or our half-brother’s.
14. For demonstrating that charitable giving need not be an individual choice but done through government with the requisite government surcharge, of course.
15. For demonstrating that class-warfare can be an effective political strategy.