Moe,

We’re all sad today.

I wish you the best. You and everybody else at RedState. I’m not gonna gloat.

Now get back up and get ready for next time.

Have a good night, everyone. Good luck and God bless.

We might lose NC as well along with Florida. This is tough. The polling was correct after all.

I think it is time to at least give a stern glance to those bashing the polls and offering false hope.

…for four years with no adult supervision. What could possibly go wrong?

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…rethink, rebuild. Come back hard, and challenge the Democrats at every turn. Having a strong opposition is a cornerstone of a healthy democracy.

But learn to move beyond wishful thinking. This result isn’t a surprise; but the days leading up to it were full of argumentum ad consequentum diaries: “If Obama wins, it will be terrible; thus, McCain will win”. That, and the “I like being the underdog” narrative that McCain put out.

I’ve seen this head-in-the-sand reasoning put the UK Conservative party into the political wilderness for a decade; without any viable opposition, the Labour government has just rotted. Please don’t let that happen here.

midst of a sea change in American political life. We have taken as a country a sharp turn to the left (reasons for this to be discussed later).

Obama gambled that he could run as a straight-out leftist and win, and he was right. It’s a hard thing to admit, but people appear to be in a mood for the kind of statism we have not seen since World War II.

McCain ran the best possible campaign. Without Palin it would have been a rout.

I think that most Americans think they have elected a black Lincoln. They will find out otherwise. It will be a difficult lesson for them but fun for us.

The other good thing is that we can no longer be routinely called a racist country, can we? That card can’t be played any more.

We don’t know what this means yet. We have to let it unfold.

Yes, we can imagine every fear we have, but the truth is the future is unknowable, but we know God. And we know that God has a plan for this world.

Let’s just see what God is going to do.

If God raises up a people to do a thing it will be done. In the meanwhile, love your children, your neighbors and co-workers. Take joy in the day the Lord gives us.

God Bless America.

our weakest candidate.

This should be remembered to keep the GOP from letting the New York Times pick our candidate, and the primaries should be reordered to let conservative states to start the primary process.

The liberal media played us like the harp from hell, and we danced.

After the lawsuits are over, and the ACORN bogus votes discounted (if they are checked), it will be time to start damage control.

There is no time to lick our wounds and pout.
Take 24 hours and start working towards 2010.

We have a heck of a candidate to put up against Hillary!

Regards

I am sad for what we as a nation will reap when the policies that were so ignored start to emerge from the WH/Congress.

I’m sorry for what my grandchildren will be forced to rectify. And I am saddened for the great amount of potential that could have been conveyed by GWB going into this election but was squandered. If ever there was a man absolutely prepared for the Presidency, McCain was it; and inversely, was Obama ill prepared.

Hopefully, in the coming months and years, the “test” prophesied by Biden fails to materialize; I am less optimistic on that.

It seems there were more Obamacons than McCainocrats.

I am disappointed, but the moment I saw VA flip to 50-49 Obama, I knew it was over.

We have 2 years, folks. Let’s hit those Congresscritters HARD!

And let’s run for offices ourselves. Hit the City and the County and the State. Get good Conservatives into ALL of these positions.

I do have to say though that your awful response to normal complaints (poor response to comments – or 500 Errors) has surely helped your cause…

If it is any comfort to any Republicans who are saddened at the losses tonight, there are now many Democratic Clinton supporters who now understand more than ever before how unfairly and disreputably the Democratic Party, and the left wing in particular, have treated you. We may quietly dissolve back into the DP, but like any worthy trojan horse we will be there to blow the whistle on the voter fraud and other crap that certain wings of our party will inevitably commit in the future. I don’t know whether we will succeed in turning the tide, any more than John McCain could stop them, but we will do our best. I hope we can make it a fairer fight in the future, and I personally vow that while we may disagree on policy issues, we do share many heartfelt values, and do not believe that the ends justifies the means.

I learned to respect your views and understandings like never before during this campaign, in large measure due to Red State, where thoughtful people can disagree in productive discourse. That has been a tremendous gift for me, as a lifelong Democrat. Meeting John McCain also has been a tremendous gift, and I feel profound sadness that he will never get to lead our country, he would have been a great president. I haven’t cried in 13 years. I didn’t cry when I learned I have cancer last month, I didn’t cry when I lost body parts to lifesaving surgery. I cried listening to John McCain concede the presidency tonight, it was a greater loss. He is a great man, whom I learned to love.

I am grateful to all the Republicans who shared my concerns about Barack Obama and welcomed the PUMA Democrats into your fold. Thank you. I hope we did everything needed to earn your trust.

Rest, but please don’t ever give up. Keep fighting for what you believe in, we are listening. You have more friends than you know.

It’s scant comfort now, I know. But seeds do grow, and every statement of principle you speak for plants another one. Do our country proud and never give up.

and be the “loyal opposition” to temper and stop these programs from happening. We have to have a better idea, explained competently, to have a chance. Suck it up, we lost this round. Now find a better way. We had it before, a simple solution. As John said, we lost our way. We now have to find it again. The republican party got too used to power and brought us along. We need to pull the party back to it’s principles that won us a majority -the same principles that won the Democrats the White House this year. It comes down to this – “who cares about me?” We lost this year, but we can get it back, we had it in 1994, what happened?

This is the first election he has been involved with. He keeps saying,
“I can’t believe Obama won” with a frown, it’s breaking my heart.

Just to say that while I made a concerted effort not to post on RedState from the conventions on (I posted once) I’ve read every day and enjoyed your perspective on the race. And y’all made me very nervous this morning.

I’ll be back now that the cycle is over. After all, you need the odd liberal punching bag around, and I’m fairly odd.

pMSNBC begins the MSM march of the “The World is Healed” because of the Obama election Spin.

Well I am sinning my soul big time because I am in the depths of despair as I write. I just cannot accept this loss for the time being. How could the masses be that stupid, but then the masses are asses most time. I am just so upset, never thought it would come to this. Someone tell me how Obama won again. What made him win and how could that be.

I used to be a nanny at one time and when you go for an interview, some of the people wanted years of experience for someone to take care of their 3 month old baby and we would laugh because a baby is only a baby for so long and said folks voted to have this man run the country and I have to ask, so how come you did not want the kind of experience that is of great importance for successful governance of the country. I am trying to move on because life goes on, but at present, I just cannot come to terms with this. John McCain is in the best positition to govern and the people failed him. Where is the justice?

I’m also aware that a fair number of people are going to take this opportunity to attempt to savagely mock my side of the political spectrum in general and this site in particular (and a few may even spare a mock or two for myself)

The best way to avoid this sort of treatment Moe, is to treat others, even others you do not agree with, as you yourself would like to be treated.

So, as rude as you were to me personally, I have no desire to mock you now, or ever.

I think Senator McCain’s speech last night was excellent, and a reminder of why I hold him in high regard.

Obama will lead by example, and that will include being respectful, and civil toward those who disagree with his policies.

VG