Comments on: Steve Schmidt Doesn’t Blame Palin

By: Leen

Leen — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:01:55 +0000

“surpluses worse than deficits” never looked at it like this. Sad that a bunch of thugs and thieves in the Bush/Cheney cabal have gotten away with this.

By: Leen

Leen — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:56:32 +0000

Good Points, but I still stand by that the race would have been much closer if McCain would not have sunk to such pathetic strategies…played it above the belt…played his Vet status even more…separated himself more from Bush and Cheney and been more steadfast. If he would have picked up Senator Hutchison it would have been a much closer race.

By: radiofreewill

radiofreewill — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:14:58 +0000

Emotionally stunted, intellectually dim and narrow, hanging on - hard! - to all that their grubby little hands could squeeze: these are the Pompous, Hypocritical Haters who bellowed out that they knew what was best for US…while they Lied, Cheated and Stole everything they could - calling US whiners along the way, too.

We may not be able to get the Money back - they may have let their Cronies gut Our system so badly that it’s going to collapse back to ’bartering’ - but We can get Our Honor back!

War Crimes Investigations and Trials Now!

Financial Corruption Investigations and Trials Now!

Make Them Pay!

We ought to start with our own Characterless ’leaders’ - Out with the Weaklings Pelosi and Reid!

By: oldoilfieldhand

oldoilfieldhand — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:39:29 +0000

Sarah Palin has unrecognized or unacknowledged problems of her own, and they are multiplying. She needs to grab for the brass Senate ring to save herself. One such problem: The “socialist” money she passes out to every Alaskan (her own family budget and lifestyle is likely dependent upon this) is based upon the oil revenues collected by the state and directly tied to oil prices. Anyone noticed the price of oil lately? If Ian is corrct and the oil price continues downward or heaven forbid drops precipitously, Alaskans aren’t going to have to worry about where to spend the oil company largess distributed annually. They may be looking at taxes just to keep the lights on and the wolves away from the state and municipal door.

By: freepatriot

freepatriot — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 08:50:26 +0000

mcstain never had a chance

neither did Hillary

both player the tortoise to Obama’s rabbit act

cept this time, the fookin rabbit never slowed down

lookin back, our nominee WAS chosen on super tuesday (Hillary just didn’t know she lost)

and mcstain’s loss was in the box before the polls opened on election day

early primary wins and early voters were Obama’s secret weapons

by the time Hillary knew what was going on, she was done

mcstain never did figure out what hit him

Obama plays offense, early and often, folks

get ready for a wild ride in January

By: sunshine

sunshine — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 08:09:16 +0000

I don’t agree. Our candidate was not chosen by Super Tuesday. Our primaries brought 2 and 3 times more supporters than the GOP did. The Dems primaries lasted longer than ever before and Dems became more energized all over the nation making these later states come into play big time. They built up more campaign offices & supporters months earlier than previously and that gave us a bump for the election. The news was the Hillary and Obama tug of war night after night. Once McCain was the candidate for the GOP he just about dropped off the screen. McCain should have choose a VP 3 months earlier and went out campaigning and got his VP nominee named branded during this time and raise more campaign dollars. But he didn’t. He lost allot by not doing this. McCain waited to see who our candidate for President before he choose his VP. Even this decision here shows he was a follower not a leader. He lost valuable time. His crowds were nearly non existent. He didn’t have much campaign money either. That is why they were so excited about Palin, she got some crowds out there for McCain and campaign dollars started flowing in. But she wasn’t enough. No way McCain would have won, that party was fractured before Palin came on the scene. She just made it more pronounced. When Arnold came to the rescue, they said the stadium Arnold & McCain was in held 20,000 4 years earlier for Bush but was only half full for McCain and Arnold. McCain was the Maverick, different from the GOP party but he picked some one just like Bush, not to bright and too far to the right. And all things come to an end. Everything that climbs up evidently falls, some slower, some faster, but nothing stays on top for ever. I worked a short while on the Obama campaign. Of the few McCain supporters I saw some said Palin scared them to death. And a few told me McCain is so old and may make it through his term and Obama may have something happen to him, Palin as Prez scares me but I think Biden would do a good job.

By: pdaly

pdaly — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 05:57:19 +0000

OT: Movie critic Roger Ebert has a blog.

Ebert, by his own admission, is socially conservative, but he’s fighting the good fight with some of his posters:

By Mickey on November 7, 2008 12:15 PM
Roger: I love you and don’t want to argue about your opinions (though I assume that your hand would break from the vigorous typing explaining to me how wrong and/or ignorant I am to believe what I do), but I would reduce the amount of pompous that you use in the rice cooker.
If Obama wants a successful presidency, his hope should be that the far left wing stops the pointing and laughing at 50 million Americans who did not vote for democrats. The Republicans have set a tone of respect and reconciliation with the well-earned win by President-Elect Obama. God, even Elizabeth Hasselback is on board. But that will could easily be diminished if the taunting of traditional values continues.

Ebert: Can’t say as I’ve heard any taunting. Why must it be “far left wing?” Why not left wing, ofr left, or liberals, or center-left, or “moderate and liberal coalition,” or “majority?” Why is Republicans capitalized but not Democrats? Both are proper nouns. The “tone of respect and reconciliation” is lacking from some of the posts above, as in yours. What would “taunting of traditional values” consist of? Torture? Illegal wiretaps? Uncontrolled deficit spending? Declaring war based on deliberate lies to the American people? The Minnesota GOP headquarters sending out mailings that Obama is a Muslim?

Can’t wait until he reviews the movie of FDL/ew/jeralyn in DC to broadcast the Libby trial at the Prettyman Courthouse despite big media’s wishes to keep everything hush hush. Hint. Hint.

By: freepatriot

freepatriot — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 05:20:12 +0000

my youngsters are coming home to ~~roost~~ vote

10 years back or so, when I started tellin the kids “See ya soon” on election day, they thought I was joking

I got to see about a dozen of em vote this time

an I’m takin reservations for 2010, 2012, 2014 and beyond

ain’t democracy great

By: pdaly

pdaly — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 04:48:07 +0000

No wonder then that Peggy Noonan once defined herself as a Republican–’one who does not believe you can change people.’ Maybe she hung out with AIG types and was speaking from experience.. and for once not juggling clouds with her eyes and cupped hands. Disturbing. (both the fact that she could be right and her juggling habit)

By: bmaz

bmaz — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 04:32:41 +0000

By the way, don’t know if I posted this on EW previously or not, but AIG was in my city this week spending some of our money.