I wonder if McCain realizes that after he loses in November, the GOP is going to go back to treating him like dirt. In fact, they'll despise him even more than they had before.

I have this feeling that McCain believes -- if he thinks about this at all -- that should he lose the election he would settle into the role of party standard bearer/revered elder statesman.

He's going to have a rude awakening.

McLame will be lucky to get any attention given that the GOP will be putting on a full court press to destroy Obama the day he takes office. It will make what they did to Clinton look like an Amish tea party.

Except the repigs are going to have to search high & low to find each other in the next Congress, what with the overwhelming minority in both houses.

I stated in a previous post, Obama is heading into the biggest shit storm in history. In 8 years his hair will be snow white. Look what happened to Bushit. Georgy is lookin a bit haggard now days. I hope he gets an ulcer that causes his belly button to fall through his ass. Wondering if you are going to be tried for treason must be a bitch.

McSame will go back to doing nothing and collecting his disability, playing with his sugar moma, collecting his Senatorial pay. He will have time to figure out how many houses he has.

Psssst.... it's the booze...

(But you are right, that job will age even an honest man.)

Good point, but...

...who says they're gonna do anything legal? These "people" in the GOP are the lowest form of life on the planet and they just manage to find a way to do repugnant shit and get away scot-free.

True... but we can hold out hope that we will once again have that quaint little corner of government known as the Justice Department. Right?

I love beer. Beer, beer, beer. Here it goes down, down into my belly...

Even a cynical punk like me would like to think so.

McStupid is such a disillusioned dolt. I bet the only reason that the neocons picked him and backed him and will try to steal the election with him, and selected that do nothing, know nothing, blank slate as his running mate is because McStupid is so old, has had melanoma four times, and will likely die or go senile in office. Then his blank slate veep takes over, and the neocons score big time.

I think you're right. He's in for a very rude awakening.

you mean Clinton....W did not nothing except GET OLD....he probably dyed his hair gray to make it seem like he was stressed....Clinton aged fast in the 8 years he WORKED!

The election isn't even over and already Republicans are turning on him.


Thompson slams McCain campaign --

http://badgerherald.com/news/2008/10/14/th...slams_mccai.php


George Will says McCain unfit --

http://crooksandliars.com/taxonomy/term/225


Bill Kristol: McCain running 'stupid campaign' --

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Bill_Kristol...paign_1012.html


Florid Gov. Crist: McCain campaign not my priority --

http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20081...not_my_priority


David Frum: McCain self-destructs --

http://www.theweek.com/article/index/89588..._self-destructs

Republicans Jump Ship

The official list of Republicans and conservatives jumping ship,
pointing fingers, or otherwise abandoning the McCain campaign

40 entries and growing • by Jed Lewison and Barath Raghavan

(here are just three, go to the link to see the rest)


Michelle Malkin (Mon Oct 13):

Michelle Malkin expresses her disappointment in McCain after learning that "John McCain had no problem calling ACORN members his friends during his ill-fated illegal alien shamnesty crusade." She concludes, "We're Screwed '08."


Ed Rollins (Mon Oct 13):

Rollins, who managed Reagan's 1984 campaign: "And while chaos and disarray reigned supreme in Sen. Barack Obama's opponents' campaigns, the steady, disciplined and strategically driven Obama campaign marches forward toward likely victory."


Tommy Thompson (Sat Oct 11):

Former Republican Governor of Wisconsin, said it would be difficult for Mr. McCain to win in his state but not impossible, particularly if he campaigned in conservative Democratic parts of the state. Asked if he was happy with Mr. McCain's campaign, Mr. Thompson replied, "No," and he added, "I don't know who is."


http://www.jedreport.com/shipjumpers/


PS Did anyone see William F. Buckley’s son on Hardball today? He's supporting Obama!!!

The son of William F. Buckley endorses Obama!!!!

Sorry, Dad, I'm Voting for Obama
by Christopher Buckley

John McCain has changed. He said, famously, apropos the Republican debacle post-1994, “We came to Washington to change it, and Washington changed us.” This campaign has changed John McCain. It has made him inauthentic. A once-first class temperament has become irascible and snarly; his positions change, and lack coherence; he makes unrealistic promises, such as balancing the federal budget “by the end of my first term.” Who, really, believes that? Then there was the self-dramatizing and feckless suspension of his campaign over the financial crisis. His ninth-inning attack ads are mean-spirited and pointless. And finally, not to belabor it, there was the Palin nomination. What on earth can he have been thinking?

All this is genuinely saddening, and for the country is perhaps even tragic, for America ought, really, to be governed by men like John McCain—who have spent their entire lives in its service, even willing to give the last full measure of their devotion to it. If he goes out losing ugly, it will be beyond tragic, graffiti on a marble bust.

As for Senator Obama: He has exhibited throughout a “first-class temperament,” pace Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.’s famous comment about FDR. As for his intellect, well, he’s a Harvard man, though that’s sure as heck no guarantee of anything, these days. Vietnam was brought to you by Harvard and (one or two) Yale men. As for our current adventure in Mesopotamia, consider this lustrous alumni roster. Bush 43: Yale. Rumsfeld: Princeton. Paul Bremer: Yale and Harvard. What do they all have in common? Andover! The best and the brightest.

I’ve read Obama’s books, and they are first-rate. He is that rara avis, the politician who writes his own books. Imagine. He is also a lefty. I am not. I am a small-government conservative who clings tenaciously and old-fashionedly to the idea that one ought to have balanced budgets. On abortion, gay marriage, et al, I’m libertarian. I believe with my sage and epigrammatic friend P.J. O’Rourke that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take it all away.

But having a first-class temperament and a first-class intellect, President Obama will (I pray, secularly) surely understand that traditional left-politics aren’t going to get us out of this pit we’ve dug for ourselves. If he raises taxes and throws up tariff walls and opens the coffers of the DNC to bribe-money from the special interest groups against whom he has (somewhat disingenuously) railed during the campaign trail, then he will almost certainly reap a whirlwind that will make Katrina look like a balmy summer zephyr.

Obama has in him—I think, despite his sometimes airy-fairy “We are the people we have been waiting for” silly rhetoric—the potential to be a good, perhaps even great leader. He is, it seems clear enough, what the historical moment seems to be calling for.

So, I wish him all the best. We are all in this together. Necessity is the mother of bipartisanship. And so, for the first time in my life, I’ll be pulling the Democratic lever in November. As the saying goes, God save the United States of America.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-sto...se-for-obama/2/

In Philly, Conservative Talk Radio Host Backs Obama

October 17, 2008 3:44 PM

On his talk show on WPHT today, conservative Philadelphian Michael Smerconish endorsed Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.

Listen HERE.

Smerconish did so by reading a couple paragraphs from his pending op-ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer.

"I’ve decided," he said. "My conclusion comes after reading the candidates’ memoirs and campaign platforms, attending both party conventions, interviewing both men multiple times, and watching all primary and general election debates.

"John McCain is an honorable man who has served his country well. But he will not get my vote. For the first time since registering as a Republican 28 years ago, I’m voting for a Democrat for president.

"I may have been an appointee in the George H.W. Bush administration, and master of ceremonies for George W. Bush in 2004, but last Saturday I stood amidst the crowd at an Obama event in North Philadelphia," says the Republican.

Smerconish has given us some more from his op-ed:

"Terrorism. The candidates disagree as to where to prosecute the war against Islamic fundamentalists. Barack Obama is correct in saying the front line in that battle is not Iraq, it’s the Afghan-Pakistan border. Osama bin Laden crossed that border from Tora Bora in December 2001, and we stopped pursuit. The Bush administration outsourced the hunt for bin Laden and, instead, invaded Iraq.

"No one in Iraq caused the death of 3,000 Americans on 9/11. Our invasion was based on a false predicate, so we have no business being there, regardless of whether the surge is working. Our focus must be the tribal-ruled FATA region in Pakistan. Only recently has our military engaged al-Qaeda there in operations that mirror those Obama was ridiculed for recommending in August 2007.

"Last spring, Obama told me, 'It’s not that I was opposed to war [in Iraq]. It’s that I felt we had a war that we had not finished.' Even Sen. Joe Lieberman conceded to me just last Friday that 'the headquarters of our opposition, our enemies today,' is the FATA."

Smerconish is taking a lot of heat from his fellow GOPers, as one might imagine.

- jpt

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/20...illy-conse.html

Colin Powell Endorses Obama

The Huffington Post
Seth Colter Walls & Nico Pitney
October 19, 2008

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell announced Sunday that he will break with his party and vote for Sen. Barack Obama. "He has both style and substance. I think he is a transformational figure," Powell said on NBC's Meet the Press.

"I come to the conclusion that because of his ability to inspire, because of the inclusive nature of his campaign, because he is reaching out all across America, because of who he is and his rhetorical abilities -- and you have to take that into account -- as well as his substance -- he has both style and substance," Powell said. "He has met the standard of being a successful president, being an exceptional president."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/19/c...a_n_135895.html

The Republicans will have to reform. The party is no longer viable. They have come apart at the seams -- the "RINO" revolt. (Republicans In Name Only).

... I have been waiting for this for at least 8 years now.

They'll control nothing outside of the really red states (e.g Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, Texas, etc.) and even that is slipping away. They will change, or they will not be viable nationally.

This happens every so often. It happened in the 60's to the Democrats (swing to the left and civil rights) and then again in '92 with Clinton (swing to the right). Carter was a fluke brought about by Nixon's disgrace and had had no staying power. Obama is a swing to the left again, and the Republicans will follow suit, just as Clinton had to after Reagan.

The good news is, the country will move towards the left. Given the continued demise of the "angry white guy" demographic (mine) I would bet that we will be moving towards a European-style social democracy over the next 16 years or so. Excellent!

Neocon Kenneth Adelman is voting for Obama





Primarily for two reasons, those of temperament and of judgment.

When the economic crisis broke, I found John McCain bouncing all over the place. In those first few crisis days, he was impetuous, inconsistent, and imprudent; ending up just plain weird. Having worked with Ronald Reagan for seven years, and been with him in his critical three summits with Gorbachev, I’ve concluded that that’s no way a president can act under pressure.

Second is judgment. The most important decision John McCain made in his long campaign was deciding on a running mate.

That decision showed appalling lack of judgment. Not only is Sarah Palin not close to being acceptable in high office—I would not have hired her for even a mid-level post in the arms-control agency. But that selection contradicted McCain’s main two, and best two, themes for his campaign—Country First, and experience counts. Neither can he credibly claim, post-Palin pick.



Conservative Christopher Hitchens is voting for Obama





I suppose it could be said, as Michael Gerson has alleged, that the Obama campaign's choice of the word erratic to describe McCain is also an insinuation. But really, it's only a euphemism. Anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear had to feel sorry for the old lion on his last outing and wish that he could be taken somewhere soothing and restful before the night was out. The train-wreck sentences, the whistlings in the pipes, the alarming and bewildered handhold phrases—"My friends"—to get him through the next 10 seconds. I haven't felt such pity for anyone since the late Adm. James Stockdale humiliated himself as Ross Perot's running mate. And I am sorry to have to say it, but Stockdale had also distinguished himself in America's most disastrous and shameful war, and it didn't qualify him then and it doesn't qualify McCain now.



Republican Congressman Jim Leach is voting for Obama





"Like many, I'm astounded at Barack Obama's meteoric rise as a candidate, but I have no doubt that his is the leadership we need and that the world is crying out for,"
Basically from my perspective, this is simply not a time for politics as usual. The portfolio of issues that are going to be passed on to the next president will be as daunting as any since the Great Depression and World War II and that means that the case for inspiring new political leadership and a social ethic has seldom been more self-evident



Susan Eisenhower is voting for Obama





Given Obama's support among young people, I believe that he will be most invested in defending the interests of these rising generations and, therefore, the long-term interests of this nation as a whole. Without his leadership, our children and grandchildren are at risk of growing older in a marginalized country that is left to its anger and divisions. Such an outcome would be an unacceptable legacy for any great nation.


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/21/6...7750/376/637293

Eisenhower, Goldwater, Nixon, Reagan support ... Obama




CC Goldwater

Being Barry Goldwater's granddaughter and living in Arizona, one would assume that I would be voting for our state's senator, John McCain. I am still struck by certain 'dyed in the wool' Republicans who are on the fence this election, as it seems like a no-brainer to me.

Myself, along with my siblings and a few cousins, will not be supporting the Republican presidential candidates this year. We believe strongly in what our grandfather stood for: honesty, integrity, and personal freedom, free from political maneuvering and fear tactics. I learned a lot about my grandfather while producing the documentary, Mr. Conservative Goldwater on Goldwater. Our generation of Goldwaters expects government to provide for constitutional protections. We reject the constant intrusion into our personal lives, along with other crucial policy issues of the McCain/Palin ticket.




Susan Eisenhower

I have decided I can no longer be a registered Republican. For the first time in my life I announced my support for a Democratic candidate for the presidency, in February of this year. This was not an endorsement of the Democratic platform, nor was it a slap in the face to the Republican Party. It was an expression of support specifically for Senator Barack Obama. I had always intended to go back to party ranks after the election and work with my many dedicated friends and colleagues to help reshape the GOP, especially in the foreign-policy arena. But I now know I will be more effective focusing on our national and international problems than I will be in trying to reinvigorate a political organization that has already consumed nearly all of its moderate “seed corn.” And now, as the party threatens to trivialize what promised to be a serious debate on our future direction, it will alienate many young people who might have come into party ranks.

My decision came at the end of last week when it was demonstrated to the nation that McCain and this Bush White House have learned little in the last five years. They mishandled what became a crisis in the Caucasus, and this has undermined U.S. national security. At the same time, the McCain camp appears to be comfortable with running an unworthy Karl Rove–style political campaign. Will the McCain operation, and its sponsors, do anything to win?




Julie Nixon Eisenhower

(CNN)— Julie Nixon Eisenhower, a daughter of former Republican president Richard Nixon,
is supporting Democrat Barack Obama’s presidential bid.




Ron Reagan and Patty (Reagan) Davis

What is your take on Sarah Palin?

This is not really about Sarah Palin herself. She was McCain’s choice. He is the author of this Palin comedy we now have. It was the most reckless, irresponsible choice I’ve ever seen a candidate for president make. John McCain knows as well as anyone that Sarah Palin has no business being anywhere near the Oval Office. I’m sorry, it’s got nothing to do with the fact that she wears skirts — she’s grossly unqualified. The choice itself is sexist.

http://www.republicansforobama.org/?q=node/3341

Nice job, annie - it is gratifying watching them crumble.

Amazing how much Julie Nixon looks like her mother. (I remember watching her wedding on the TV)

The GOP is already pulling the financial plug on the McCain campaign, cutting its losses, abandoning McCain, perhaps hoping to re-group for the 'future'. It's not only GOP honchos who seem inclined to cut their losses. The McCain campaign itself is 'pulling' ads in Minnesota, Colorado, Maine, Wisconsin and New Hampshire. McCain's campaign is in recession.

http://existentialistcowboy.blogspot.com/2...e-election.html

You know, I really don't think that that will work the way it did with Clinton. We've begun to see signs that things are different, in the way that the GOP's negative campaigning is being received. True the Kool Aid drinkers may be taking it in, but poll after poll is showing that it is actually working against MKKKain. I suspect that any kind of frontal assault on Obama will receive unfavorable responses from the electorate, at least for a couple years.

Mutiny!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obama_Republican

http://www.republicansforobama.org/?q=node/3341

http://political-zazen.blogspot.com/2008/1...n-mcbounty.html

http://www.jedreport.com/shipjumpers/

Treating HIM like dirt? Wait until the sh*t starts to fly from his camp at Palin!
I'd pay for front row seats to that event!!!