JMac has always thought more highly of his Democrat Senate cohorts than he has the electorate–or his Republican peers.

That satisfy you? Don’t expect me to look at any bigger picture than that. McCain’s horrible campaigning + his capitulation to the first bailout in opposition to so many of the conservatives who voted against it put us where we will be tomorrow–inaugurating the LEFT.

Which Senate colleagues were convinced to join McCain on these issues he felt so passionately about?

Or to put it another way, if McCain were so well liked and bipartisanship were so effective, exactly which of these issues were resolved to his satisfaction?

actually, seriously, where IS adam c, anyway? did he retire from being an editor?

Sorry, but my limited knowledge of military affairs suggests that the expansion of the Geneva convention in that way is a significant obstacle in the way of our military success anywhere in the world.

I don’t consider that to result in a stronger effort in Iraq or anywhere else.

I realize it took the Supreme Court to change the law, but McCain gave the wrong side tons of public support in the court of public opinion.

No. His advice is no better than Barney Frank’s.

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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

what makes you think BO was “asking for advice”, as in he would actually DO SOMETHING if McCain didn’t like the names he mentioned. This was a publicity stunt, nothing more.

In case you haven’t noticed, BO doesn’t NEED the good will of Republicans for at least the next four years. And over the next six months you’re going to see the Dems voting in lockstep to pass his agenda. We’re reaping a whirlwind and we’re just beginning to see it in BO’s executive orders.

By the end of May we will have a $1.5T porkfest to prop up the economy – that won’t do anything but fund the Democratic Shadow Government, we’ll have Card Check, we may have RTW outlawed for-all-intents-and-purposes and we’ll be well on the way to a nationalized health care plan that will be law by the end of the year. That doesn’t include the groundwork for significant reductions in military spending to “fund” the social side of BO’s agenda.

You are about to see the Party-Out-of-Power ignored in ways never before thought of.

to vigorously pursue the Democrats culpability in the Fannie/Freddie mess.

By choosing a campaign manager that participated in the free-lunch participation of the private upside/govt guarantee downside GSE racket to the tune of $2 million, he was doomed the day Lehman failed in Sept.

No, Mitt Romney would not have won. But I believe a Romney nomination would have prevented the sole pinning of the credit collapse on Republicans, and Republicans would have fared better than 41-59 in the Senate.

than McCain. Good people stayed home in droves so as not to have to vote for the old liberal fart.

If he hadn’t picked Palin, he would have lost by 15,000,000-20,000,000 votes.

If you analysis was the entire story, how in hell did McCain build such momentum and overtake Obama?

The campaign was winnable, uphill battle, but definitely winnable.

Why would people vote for a guy whose primary economic message is “I cut spending” when he put himself on the line for the $700B TARP plan?

Its like demanding a diet coke to go down with 5 Big Macs.

No real economic message at that point. Game over.

When the odds are stacked against you, like they were in McCain’s case, you going to take big risks and things may go awry.

Maybe if he laid off some of those “big risks” such as trying to rebrand himself the candidate of socialism 6 weeks out, he would have had a shot.

He deliberately chose to lowball the issue because it would have hurt his friends Chris Dodd and Byron Dorgan’s feelings and they wouldn’t be friends bipartisans with him again.

Rick Davis having been a Fannie/Freddie lobbyist was no excuse for him not to tie the entire mess around the CRA and the Democrats on video defending those monstrosities. The idiotic argument that Rick Davis (a hired lobbyist for Fannie Mae) equaled Obama’s ties (not to mention the huge amounts of money he received from Fannie and Freddie executives) to Jim Johnson and Franklin Raines (CEOs of Fannie Mae) is just that, idiotic.

Not only did McCain hardly receive any money from the GSEs, he actually sponsored legislation – one of the few times in the last eight years that he did so without seeking Democratic permission – that would have prevented the worst of the collapse from happening.

McCain instead, stoooopidly decided to blame “Wall Street Greed”, not only deflecting blame away from the Democrats and Obama, but actively giving strength and credibility to their talking points (not exactly a new thing for McCain). Romney would have done ten times better and we would have very likely have been able to save our Senate seats in OR and MN.

Heck, considering that Romney would never have called for suspending his campaign and run to Washington in response to a call for “Bipartisanship” (the word works like magic on McCain) from Harry Reid, we might have been able to save the NC and NH seats.

Second, considering how quick McCain was (and is) to get to the cameras and microphones to launch missiles and recriminations at people who make perfectly legitimate criticisms of Obama on his own side, his silence while his(ha!) “base” – the Obamaphile media – not only went after his running mate, but her family, has been very telling.

So let’s not be stupid, McCain could have done significantly better. And at this point, I’m pretty certain he knew it. He chose not to.

PS: McCain bears a significant share of the blame for Bush’s numbers – even if Bush not defending himself is the major cause. He and his and his groupies in the Senate were always there to undermine one Bush initiative after another with Democratic talking points. The effect of this was to enable Democrats to successfully make President Bush look like an extremist since “even John McCain agrees …!“

He lost more than anything because his economic message was incoherent. He lost because he refused to go after Obama on anything other than that he was wrong on the surge…He refused to tie Resco around Obama’s neck and to point out Resco bought his house for him…he took a hands off position on Wright, he was all over the map on the banking issue and basically sucked all the way around…His surrogates went after Palin for going off the reservation because she refused to go down in flames without putting up a fight and he refused to defend her after the election or to call off the dogs. Bottom line…McCain is not one of us…has never been one of us…and he will continue into the future sticking us in the back like he’s always done!

OK…I’ll take your word for it….maybe he did try which is even worse because everything he tried was a dismal failure!

Many of us predicted what he would do because we have experience with him and he didn’t disappoint us at all…He is only exceeded by Bob Dole in his incompetence, incoherence and refusal to hammer his opponent on legitimate issues.

Oh..and Bush wasn’t running…McCain was…That’s one I’m sick of as well from the McCain sycophants and the incompetents running the RNC, the NRSC, and the NRCC…they started out this election by announcing to one and all that we didn’t have a chance this year and they set around during the whole campaign pissing and moaning that people weren’t sending money. And finally…the great McCain decided he’d pander to independents and moderates by blurring the differences between him and Obama and tamped down his support among conservatives as a result…the polls show Obama didn’t increase his share of voters this election cycle…he barely one because turnout amongst conservatives was down…

so…WHO IS RE-WRITING HISTORY?

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

just before the dems put the knife in his back.

Nothing new, your are so correct.

BTW If Mac is a traitor, does that make Lindsey Grahmnesty a “traitor in training?”

Regards

man at all. he’s an independent kind of guy, always has been. he doesn’t even really like the idea of parties. frankly, i sympathize with him… i don’t really like parties, either. i’m more conservative than he is, so i’m frustrated with him for that reason, but it’s not a matter of party loyalty.

i don’t think many of us around here have the right to talk about party loyalty, anyway. most of us are loyal to conservatism first and only secondarily to the republican party. and if the republican party goes much further left, i can assure you that many redstaters would be among the first to become “traitors to the party.”

the middle, not for the right. it will be some time yet before obama even feels the need to reach out to the right.

Obama’s trying to shore up his support in center that went for McCain over Obama in huge numbers… oh wait. That didn’t happen at all. So much for your theory.

The answer would tell us whether or not the “Conservative” in your name belongs there or not.

… that folks who use terminology like “talk radio wing of the party” are usually not the types of people who have a clue on much of anything.

but we can use these “aberration” of some of our conservative/republican leaders later…. especially when Obama Administration reaches the so-called “BLAME GAME” stage in the future.

At that time, no one from the Obama’s administration can blame us (Reps/Cons) that we have never truly supported him especially for the sake of National security and economic recovery.

I, for one, lauded GWH when, in a press conference together with Obama and other living ex-presidents, he unequivocally stated:

“We want to you (Obama) to succeed… democrat and republican alike”.

That’s a good starting point for us showing that Republican Party is not egoistical maniacs when it comes to power. We truly care for the welfare of America as whole.

BUT as we proceed, of course, WE MUST ACT AS FISCALIZING AGENT of this incompetent new Administration.

We really need to communicate our principles and ideals to the People in a “positive way”. We have had enough of NEGATIVES.