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| Sour Loser [John Derbyshire] |
| 2008-11-05 |
| Just watched Wonder Boy’s speech. Hmph. “Callused hands?” When did he ever have callused hands? All right, I'm sour. The most liberal member of the U.S. Senate! And that shakedown-artist of a wife, with the permanent frown! And Joe Biden! … I'm sour about the GOP too. What did it all get us, those 8 years of pandering and spending? If GWB had turned his face against new entitlements, closed the borders, deported the illegals, held the line on calls to loosen mortgage-lending standards, starved the Department of Education, and declined those invitations to mosque functions, would the GOP be in any worse shape now? What won this election was the packaging skills of David Axelrod, the swooning complicity of the media, the ruthless opportunism of Barack Obama, and the unprincipled thuggishness of his supporters. What lost this election was the cloth-eared cluelessness of George W. Bush, the timid squeamishness of John McCain, and the deep lack of interest in conservative principles among Republican primary voters. Sour? You bet I’m sour. Where was conservatism in this election? Where was restraint in government? Where was national sovereignty? Where was liberty? Where was self-support? And where are those things now? Where are they headed this next four years? Down the toilet, that’s where. Pah! |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #13 "the deep lack of interest in conservative principles among Republican primary voters." Consider that most of the "Republican Primary Voters" that put McCain in there are not Republicans at all. Put NH and Iowa LAST. No more open primaries, especially in BLUE states. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2008-11-05 22:28 |
| #12 Nope but they have something with basically the same pay and attributions. They also the divide between admirals (be they full, rear or fleet) and c |
| Posted by: ot 2008-11-05 17:41 |
| #11 Navy does not have Colonels. |
| Posted by: AZ Driller 2008-11-05 17:26 |
| #10 TW I have been told that in the US armed forces there is a BIG divider between colonels and generals both in power and in numbers, far more than between colonels and liuetenant-colonels (do you have such?) or inside the general body. In other words colonels are a dime a dozen. Generals are different thing |
| Posted by: JFM 2008-11-05 15:29 |
| #9 General Colin Powell, and whatisname who ran for president after he almost started a war with the Soviet Union over Bosnia. But most of them are pretty smart about keeping their opinions out of the spotlight. I think Senator McCain retired as a colonel, after having commanded a base for one year. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-11-05 12:57 |
| #8 Don't see generals being partisan. One McCain is enough. McCain was not a general. Generals and admirals eg Admiral John S Thatch (Thatch Weave, big blue blanket, important contributions to doctrine on anti-submarine warfare) are supposed to have bigger brains than pilots eg McCain who don't reach this stage. |
| Posted by: JFM 2008-11-05 12:05 |
| #7 Can we nominate Patreaus the next time? Don't see generals being partisan. One McCain is enough. |
| Posted by: ed 2008-11-05 11:33 |
| #6 Since Ike there has been only one time when a party has controlled the Presidency for more than two terms. That was Reagan/Bush. Americans don't like anyone in control for too long these days so to some extent it was inevitable. Add to that the other issues Derb mentioned and it's a miracle McCain did as well as he did. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2008-11-05 11:03 |
| #5 Maybe George will grow a set of big ones on domestic issues and veto everything the dems vote on in the lame duck session. what a bunch of crap. The Republicans were dealt a pat hand with the dems nominating a nobody and they blew it.......big time. McCain's squeamishness? You betcha, he should have gone after BO's associations, his corrupt fund raising, Odinga, Khalidi, Ayers, the Mortgage crisis, the Do Nothing Congress, All of this could/should have played to McCain' advantage. Obviously McCain has no killer's instinct when it comes to politics. Can I say that flyboys don't know how to get their hands dirty, if there is a dirty job to do, bring in a ground pounder. Can we nominate Patreaus the next time? |
| Posted by: James Carville 2008-11-05 10:57 |
| #4 Inauguration is a while off but Pelosi and Reid will call Congress back into session immediately and push major packages through well before then. |
| Posted by: lotp 2008-11-05 10:16 |
| #3 We have close to 2 1/2 months before he is POTUS officially. In that time anything can happen that will test him ex officio - Israel and Iran? China and Taiwan? The economy responds by going further in the tank? The media tries to resurrect their honor and lost revenue by becoming belatedly skeptical and inquiring? Oil zooms to new heights during a cold winter? People feel entitled to take and take and riots in the streets ensue? Ayers, Wright, Klonsky re-emerge as more than just neighbors or preachers? Rezko spills more than his guts? ACORN indictments? Rush, Hannity, Boortz, et.al. get really in your face since the fairness doctrine is now clearly in play? At this point in time he has a 52+% approval rating. What do you think it will be by inauguration day? |
| Posted by: Jack is Back! 2008-11-05 10:07 |
| #2 The MSM provided Obama with millions of dollars worth of free promotion. Shameful, just shameful. They didn't even try to hide it! |
| Posted by: Parabellum 2008-11-05 09:43 |
| #1 If GWB had done everything Derb wanted, he would have been someone else. Saying the swooning complicity of the media doesn't begin to get at the essence, that the media has abdicated its role of informing the public and become a propaganda organ. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2008-11-05 09:05 |