Loading ...The Finger-Pointing Begins In The Wake Of McCain-Barracuda Drubbing
As has long been customary with losing campaigns, the failed attempt of the McCain-Palin ticket to win the Oval Office is proving to be no exception to the rule. According to The New York Times, McCain insiders are accusing Sarah “The Barracuda” of being anything from an idiot, to a “diva, to a shop-a-holic, to a (partial) “shameless nudist” to a “rogue” and just about anything else in between and right wing bloggers aren’t very appreciative either as they look for “The Barracuda” to lead their Grand Old Party to their promised land in 2012.
For example, Michelle Malkin is calling these “McCain insiders” “classless cowards“. I’d say that’s fairly BLUNT, wouldn’t you? Rick Moran is calling these people “twits” — blunt enough as well. Erick Erickson of Red State — “lepers” while Don Surber maintains his sanity by posing a question to his readers: “What if they’re right?“.
Right or wrong, it’s great to see post-campaign tradition is not dead as President-Elect Barry “Steve” (Source: YouTube) Obama prepares to take the reins from President “Surge” Dubya Bush.
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The “anonymous” workers coming out and saying all this garbage about Palin are just sore losers. And they are a bunch of cowards..if you are going to come out and slaughter someone’s character, atleast have the balls to put your name on it. Cowards. McCain’s advisers can’t take any responsibility for their own mistakes so they feel they must find someone to blame…and how easy to pick on Palin. The liberal MSM illuminati have been doing it for months now.
After reading the “chaff”, maybe McCain/Palin loss was not their fault. Barry Obama did outspend them, acorn was an influance, the liberal media pushed Barry Obama down everyone’s throat, but the McCain/Palin insiders should be very very ashamed, in my opinion!
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Mostly I’m enjoying the victory and the feeling of optimism but I must admit I am also enjoying watching the GOP crash and burn. America just took a sharp turn to the left. Yes!
“girardia”, I agree. It’s truly entertaining to watch the implosion. In the end the GOP tried to stir this whole ACORN deal and couldn’t find any serious issues with VOTING fraud. If they did, we’d be hearing about it today. http://newstrust.net/stories/29296
It wasn’t the medias fault the GOP “caged” Palin for a month and tried to shove her down our throats when she truly turned out to be a waste of time.
Brown Defends Palin Against McCain Advisers’ Scapegoating: “You Picked Her”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/07/campbell-brown-defends-sa_n_142043.html
In the end, George Bush created Obama so feel free to blame him.
Or thank him. It’s unfortunate that it took a presidency so awful to swing the pendulum in the other direction, but that’s how our system works. It’s time for a multigenerational swing to the left. Obama needs to take this LANDSLIDE-MANDATE-REFERENDUM ON THE ABJECT FAILURE OF ALL THINGS CONSERVATIVE to implement massive irreversible government programs to address infrastructure, healthcare, education, peace, environment and so on.
girardia,
So in other words, you want our National Debt to go even higher? Really good plan. I would think many of the losing Republicans would agree with you. If Obama, does what you say, the Republicans will be back in power sooner than you think.
Steve
Wise investment in the country always pays rich dividends. We are in a situation comparable to the great depression or WW2. It’s time for great sacrifice by all of us to fix the economy, our standing in the world and the health of the planet, but we can and will get it done. When we stop flushing money down the toilet in Iraq and start rebuilding this country again, the economy will turn around in time to give Obama a second term. By then, the green economy should be really gaining momentum, giving the Dems another shot,, despite whatever dirty tricks the Rethuglicans try to pull to fuc4 things up for America in order to regain power.
I’m just glad that Palin is back in Alaska, that the election is over and that Obama won. Let the Republicans slice and dice each other as much as they want.
If Obama can’t implement his programs, for whatever reason, our next president may be an independent. The youth vote came and they say they are going to stay in politics. These young voters are facing problems that our parents never dreamed of and many of them are angry that we have left them such a mess.
The Sarah Palins of the world are dinosaurs. They don’t realize that if they can’t adapt to the new realities they will die out.
You’re so right.
I’m just being the devil’s advocate here, but didn’t the RNC buy those close for Palin? Didn’t the McCain campaign want her to be in those expensive clothes to try and win even more votes?
Ok. I just took my devil’s advocate hat off. Rant time: Palin’s wearing those close – I found to be contradictory to her desire to have the “middle-class-average-joe-appeal”. Wearing outfits that most Americans cannot afford is hypocritical. That money could have been used more wisely.
So, some Republicans don’t like the voices of the “insiders”? Hey wait. They’re just “mavericks”. Don’t be so hard on them, Ms Malkin and co.
Anonymous sources in Alaska claim that Alaska is trying to make Palin stay in the lower Forty-eight states.
Steve Obama is going to have to work hard at his job. Maybe he can vacation at the Crawford Texas ranch Da surge has since Da surge will not have to play the mythical cowboy anymore.
Anonymous sources claim Da surge purchased a sprawling mansion in Connecticut, from funds of Halliburton, so that he can go sailing and eat brie.
Anonymous sources also claim Da Dick will be taken back to the morgue. He died half way in Da surge’s second term.
Anonymous sources inside the Obama campaign provided me with a photo of Obama without his make-up! I have adopted this image as my gravatar.
Anonymous sources also revealed that Obama was seen laughing hysterically with his campaign workers while discussing their economic “plan” and the fact that so many voters actually BELIEVED him.
lol
Gaia Child…young voters face difficulties thier parnets never dreamed of…mmm I was 19 in Vietnam, faced double digit inflation under Carter, 21% mortgage rates to buy my first house (Jimmy Carter)…oil embargo and gas lines and gas increasing in price by 250% in one year and shortages to get to work (Jimmy Carter). Wheat embargo and record farm foreclosures..(Jimmy Carter)..thats what I was facing when I was a young voter or did I mention the threat of War with Russia ….no you are not a special generation with some form of entitlement…oh and by the way I am not a republican.
JLmoure, I think both liberals and conservatives can agree that Jimmy Carter was a dead beat. He’s the worst representative ever of the Democratic party.
Granted but my point was that today’s younger generation faces the contempory issues of times just as we did in my generation and no matter who the politicans are, left or right, we cannot expect the government to do for us because the more power we give the government the less power we have as citizens. Stop the whining, stop bitching, go to work at what ever tasks are available and make something of yourself first. Stop the blame republicans, democrats whatever…these people are not the wisest people in this country and mistakes will be made in the future…get over it. Obama will make his make his mistakes… he is no genius..just a good salesman…Be true to those you can put your arms around and trust no one else to care that much…no government will care for you forever…or they will take all you have and I for one am no longer willing to give that much to be managed by a government of less then the brightest or the wisest..
The discussion between JLmoure and Tix reminds me of a comment made once by another democrat in his inaugural address. A comment many of us seem to have forgotten…
“Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.” JFK, 1960.
I only wrote one comment to him. But I am doing for my country. I work. I pay taxes. I’m productive. I vote. Currently, I am taking care of the millions on welfare, paying for the war, and all services republican and democrat.
Anything else I can do? As far as whining. I think JLmoure is just generalizing. But I see no difference between liberal whining and conservative whining. Now, for the next four years I get to watch neocon whining. I am just sitting back, eatin’ popcorn, and watching.
I’m right there with ya tix
Me too. It’s our turn to screw things up, or maybe not. we’ll see.
Please don’t misunderstand my comment Tix. I did not intend to imply that you should “do for your country” any more than I was saying that I and everyone else should.
I was mainly talking about those who expect their country to pay their way – whether it be able-bodied welfare recipients, or GM or Lehman Brothers expecting a bailout, or Union workers who would rather see their employer go out of business than make a concession during negotiations, or the people who would rather pay $10 for a China made toaster than pay $20 for an American made toaster, or the much publicized exit-poll interview with a woman who seemed convinced that Obama would buy her gasoline and pay her mortgage for her.
I hope that’s one BIG bowl of popcorn.
Actually, it’s a time in history where we all need to put down the video game or turn off the Simpsons or fold up the backgammon game or whatever and get together to solve our problems. We’ve got some seriously hard work ahead of us here to clean up the mess we’ve made. We owe the next generations a hell of a lot more than we’ve been giving. The gilded age is over, but we’ll probably be happier when we give more. It’s time to volunteer at the community meals program at the church or mentor a poor kid and so on. It’s time to give all those old clothes to charity etc.
I do not know of what gilded age you refer to. I have known nothing but hard work for the past 40 years as my parents and grandparents before me. I do not believe I owe a future generation anything. They must work to protect the principles of democracy as we of my generation have and the generation before us if America is to survive and thrive. We all must give to our ability and desire to participate in this experiment of democracy but none should be forced to give where the giving is dictated by ambitions of others unshared by the giver. I agree as humans we thrive in general on the spirit of helping one another but each in their own way and thier own time.
I’m with you on that girardia – we have two baskets of clothes in the garage right now, ready for sorting and delivery to the local homeless shelter.
JLmoure: “They must work to protect the principles of democracy as we of my generation have and the generation before us if America is to survive and thrive” – Well said.
I do believe we owe our progeny the very best nation we can leave to them. The better shape it is in, the less they will need to fix it and the better chance they have to improve it.
I have said before that in the entire spectrum of government in this world, American democrats and republicans are about six inches apart. Most of us want basically the same things, we just don’t always agree on the best way to get there.
JLmoure, you should never assume. I started my life during WWII with its rationing and not knowing if I would ever meet my father. So I have lived through everything you did and more.
My Dad did come home and my parents fought hard for a better life not only for themselves but also a better life for their children. And they suceeded. But these are some of the things that the present day under thirty generation are facing:
A decreasing life expectancy, increasing infant mortality, climate change, that regardless of the reason, is here now. Didn’t you read about the Artic this summer. That enough ice melted that the fabled Northwest passage actually formed.
My parents came into a world where free land was still available and so did I. Now we have a ever growing population of homeless WORKING families. My Dad found a job that he worked until retirement and he knew that at retirement he would have both a pension and social security. Now we are telling our young ones to be prepared to change careers, not jobs, but careers, at least 12 times in their lifetime. And retirement, well you better start saving in your twenties.
There are other problems I could mention such as the new diseases, the shrinking middle class income, the growing available water shortage but I think you get my drift.
I do think that we owe the next generation, why else have children. And I think that we have failed our children. I also think that the newest generation will be able to overcome but they will not have the resources we had. In a way we did have a gilded age but it is over.
I watched JFK give his famed speech live over television’ and when he said, “Ask not what your country should do for you but what you can do for your country”, shivers ran down my spine and I have tried to live my life by his comment. I used to feel like a lone voice in the wilderness but at least I no other feel that way.
I agree with both of you. I’m just saying that the days of driving around in gas guzzlers without trying to conserve resources for the future generations is ending. I’m just saying that we can’t keep living on credit, either personally or as a country, and we need to pay it down. I’m saying we have no right to hand this huge financial burden off to the next generation so we can cruise around in big fat cars and so on. We can do better than we have been doing. It’s much more than what the government can do, but they are an integral part of the solution.
This is sad, because the left-wing illuminati look united, and here the GOP continue on, arguing. Please get it together, the country will need you real soon.