Jay Bookman

By Ray

November 14, 2008 7:02 PM | Link to this

Dying breed…. out of touch…. self imposed captivity….You overlook that 47% of the electorate did not buy your lib rhetoric and the Annointed One is far from a mandate. Nearly half of the voters in this country do not have a favorable opinion of this clown. Do not pander us, Bookman, with “demonization and division”, we don’t buy it. If the Annointed One had carried 49 or so states, like Reagan or Nixon, we might buy this crap but that is just simply not the case. A lot of us, 47% by last count, still believe that he is an empty suit. Try to write off half of the population, Bookman….. it should be hard, even for you.

By Tar Heel Bred bleeds Tar Heel Blue

November 14, 2008 8:23 PM | Link to this

Good evening, Jay. Not too many bites on this blog, but here’s one for rigid hard-rightwingers and ideological Republican hacks to chew on.

Conservatives do need to return to the old ways……the old ways of PROTECTING THE BUDGET and promoting and fostering a STRONG NATIONAL DEFENSE. George W. Bush didn’t veto one spending bill during his first six years in office, not a one! After leading his party to a slaughter in the ‘06 mid-term elections, the only spending bill that he did veto was the proposal to expand the S.C.H.I.P. program (childrens’ healthcare) and the right-wing political hacks came out of the woodwork to attack an 11-year-old child suffering from cancer whose parents had the nerve to publicly speak out in support of expanding the SCHIP program. So when the government is wasting trillions of dollars on favors for cronies, handouts to corporate buddies and meaningless porkbarrel “projects” (like Gov. Sonny’s $20 million for his “Go Fish Georgia” program during an economic downturn) it’s A-Okay, but just one penny more for child healthcare and its the END OF THE WORLD. BTW, Ray you’ve got some nerve calling President-Elect Obama, a politician with CRITICAL THINKING skills and and mastery of the ENGLISH LANGUAGE (shown by his ability to speak in complete sentences) a clown and an empty suit when this nation is coming off of and still suffering through eight years and two full terms of the ULTIMATE CLOWN in an EMPTY SUIT, George W. Bush! Now, Ray, I will give you that John McCain was a high-quality presidental candidate if he had run a smoother campaign and had a running mate that was perceived by the general public as competent and not Dubya in a skirt with “lipstick” on (see Sarah’s “preparation”, or lack thereof, for the Katie Couric interview). Needless to say, it wasn’t McCain’s desperation campaign or Sarah Palin’s “not-ready-for-primetime” blunders that lost the election for Republicans, it was the one and the only George W. Bush and his unique “leadership”-style that sealed the deal for Barack Obama, the “black man with a muslim name and socialist musings”, as one black comedian put it. So if you want to complain about why a candidate like Barack Obama would get 53% of the vote from the electorate and close to 360 electoral votes look no further than Dubya’s stewardship of the Federal Budget, the Iraq War, the Afghanistan War, the National Debt, federal agencies, etc. and his firm committment to “Conservative Principles” for Republican Party malaise, because the only thing worse than a “Tax-and-Spend” liberal (generic Democrat) is a “Borrow-and-Spend” Conservative (Bush Republican)!

And this is coming from a “ticket-spitting” independent!

Have fun out in the wilderness, boys!

By "The Corporal"

November 14, 2008 8:34 PM | Link to this

“Conservatives who look at what the youth vote did in the past election and at the demographic changes coming in this country and then still insist that returning to the old ways will cure them … well, good luck with that.”

Then why don’t you just let us die on the vine? Because you fear us and our return to common sense, morality and a strong America!

And that return will happen because it is just one super economic, moral, and/or terrorist crisis away. When those happen, that youth vote will coming running back to Mom & Dad and that demograhphic vote will see the light.

We’ll see, won’t we ……………..

Deo Vindice

By RW-(the original)

November 14, 2008 8:47 PM | Link to this

That is the truth. McCain did better than any other Repubican candidate could have done because he was perceived to be the least Republican among them, and still he couldn’t shake the GOP taint. I’m not a fan of Gingrich, but his

Is this a finish the paragraph contest? I’ll give it a shot

white hair and jolly grin reminds of the joyous Christmas season ahead.

By Tar Heel Bred bleeds Tar Heel Blue

November 14, 2008 9:15 PM | Link to this

Corporal,

Nobody in their right mind, no pun intended, fears conservative principles. America needs so-called Conservative Principles (morality, strong military and national defense, protecting the budget, low taxes, etc., just to name a few) just as much as it needs so-called liberal principles (government-provided services, regulation, concern for the environment, etc.) to make for a well-rounded society. Too much or too little of these principles on either side of the political spectrum and the nation can run off the tracks. I didn’t vote for George W. Bush in ‘00 or ‘04 because I didn’t exactly think that he was “the sharpest tool in the shed”, but I didn’t cheer for him to fail, as some selfish political hack would, after he got into office just so the democrats could get another shot in four years like many liberals did when he was elected and re-elected. I gave GWB my full support as a patriotic American, especially after 9-11, because I knew that if Bush failed, then America would fail because the success or failure of a presidency has a “trickle-down” effect on the nation as a whole. I voted for Obama, but that doesn’t mean I have to agree with every position he takes or decision he makes. That is the beauty of a democracy, I don’t have to agree with everything a politician does, even if I voted for him or her. I would hope that those who didn’t vote for Obama would like to at least see him succeed in governing and have a successful presidency for the sake of the nation and not cheer for him to fail just to achieve some short-sighted, petty and selfish political ends as, admittedly, those on the far-left have done at times over the last eight years. “Oh I hope he screws up badly as President so my party can get back into power in four years”, not good for America from either side, because at this point, the nation can’t afford anymore screw ups. If Obama screws up, which as a new president he probably will make some mistakes, take him to task and correct him for the good of the nation.

By AJC/DNC Management

November 14, 2008 9:21 PM | Link to this

Aawwww, it’s so nice of you to be concerned for us.

Is this part of that new “civility?”

Let me guess, we are supposed to do everything you suggest, right?

By "The Corporal"

November 14, 2008 9:54 PM | Link to this

To Tar Heel Bred bleeds Tar Heel Blue:

If for no other reason, any and I repeat any politician who would vote as he did to not protect even the life of a baby born alive (as if it weren’t alive before the abortion) after an abortion if not morally fit to be dogcatcher.

May God have mercy on us …………

By TN Gelding

November 14, 2008 10:16 PM | Link to this

Abortion itself is immoral.

Just as war is.

We must strive to make every pregnancy a wanted one.

In war, truth is the first casualty.

~Aeschylus

By Copyleft

November 17, 2008 8:08 AM | Link to this

One-issue voters will never understand why they keep losing elections.

Fine with me, as long as the smart guys keep winning.