well, at least McCain will no longer be the face of the Republican Party

[Willie99]

the last 10 months were kinda tough on us. The best speech the geezer gave was his fucking concession speech.

The man won the nomination by winning a mere 30%+ of the Republican vote in two primary states. He never resonated with his base on a widespread basis.

Under the present circumstances, relatively no news from Iraq or on terrorism and the credit crunch tsunami, the media circle jerk for Obama and an enormous financial disadvantage, any Republican nominee would have had uphill fight.

Without the credit crunch crisis, he may have even won against all odds, we'll never know. I still think a more dynamic personality would have served us better.

Thank you for your service John, and thank you for your effort, but just go away, in a political leadership sense of course.

 

[D2bets]

The better question is who will be. You guys have a real void. Mittens Romney? Ugh. Rudolf Ghouliani? Yikes. Sarah Palin? No Betcha.

 

[rolltide]

bobby jindal

 

[Willie99]

The better question is who will be. You guys have a real void. Mittens Romney? Ugh. Rudolf Ghouliani? Yikes. Sarah Palin? No Betcha.

A new Newt will emerge. For now, it's McConnell.

Huckabee is also in the mix.

 

[Cracker]

Huckabee 2012

 

[punter]

Jeb Bush.

 

[Willie99]

Jeb Bush.

Bush vs Clinton 2012?

 

[Cracker]

Bush vs Clinton 2012?

So you are writing off Obama as such a bad president that the Democratic party wouldn't even want him to run for re-election in 2012?

Has that ever happened?

 

[arniesarmy]

Wisconsin's Paul Ryan

 

[MadTiger]

Rush 2012

 

[Willie99]

So you are writing off Obama as such a bad president that the Democratic party wouldn't even want him to run for re-election in 2012?

Has that ever happened?

My post was partly in jest, but I do believe Hillary will run for the Democratic nomination in 2012. Although a sitting President is often contested within his own party, a sitting President has never lost the nomination in my lifetime. Carter almost lost the nomination to Teddy in 1980, but that was the only serious threat.

 

[Cracker]

Is there any loop hole in the Constitution to get "The Governator" in office in 2012?

 

[Willie99]

Is there any loop hole in the Constitution to get "The Governator" in office in 2012?

No loophole, but maybe the Governor of Hawaii will vouch for him. :thumbsup:

If the GOP can ever win CA, winning that election would be a walk in the park.

 

[Boxslayer]

you know how horrible of a candidate you have to be when for the past 200 years there has been white male presidents, and you lose to black a guy?

i'm not sold that people believed in barack obama as much as john mccain was a wrinkly stiff. barack won by default.

 

[punter]

Not just McCain. He was the least of your problems. The whole party stinks.

It is filled to the brim with liars, holy-rollers, racist, trust fund babies and just a host people who think that it is their Divine destiny to rule.

 

[Cracker]

you know how horrible of a candidate you have to be when for the past 200 years there has been white male presidents, and you lose to black a guy?

i'm not sold that people believed in barack obama as much as john mccain was a wrinkly stiff. barack won by default.

Most everyone around here I talked to felt the same way. It was that both candidates were bad it was picking who you thought would screw up the least.

 

[Uno]

mccain did not lose because of anything other than the country (ignorant as it might or might not be) blames the republican party for everything that is wrong in the country right now.

people hate the war, they are losing their houses and jobs and the rich are getting richer while the majority of people are taking steps backwards.

i think the election could have been closer with romney as the candidate but i think the dems had this one in the bag before it ever started.

 

[Cracker]

mccain did not lose because of anything other than the country (ignorant as it might or might not be) blames the republican party for everything that is wrong in the country right now.

people hate the war, they are losing their houses and jobs and the rich are getting richer while the majority of people are taking steps backwards.

i think the election could have been closer with romney as the candidate but i think the dems had this one in the bag before it ever started.

Agree 100%. It even worked on the local level with people campaigning that we're not republican.

 

[Willie99]

Not just McCain. He was the least of your problems. The whole party stinks.

It is filled to the brim with liars, holy-rollers, racist, trust fund babies and just a host people who think that it is their Divine destiny to rule.

hehehehe, because they can't win every Presidential election? take the blinders off chap.

was 1972 the end of the Democrats? 520 to 17

how about 1980? 489 to 49

or 1984? 525 to 13

or 1988? 426 to 111

or maybe 1994? when the GOP gained 54 seats (a 108 seat swing), the Democratic Speaker of the House was the only Speaker to lose in our history, The GOP took control of the Senate and a total of 36 Democratic incumbents were thrown out of office?

Of course none of the above was an indication of the death of the Democratic Party, and this election is not the death of the Republican Party.

And both parties have corruption, don't be silly.

 

[D2bets]

It's not the death of the Republican Party unless they continue to allow the holy roller right to hijack the party. They need to get back to fiscal conservatism, modest and wise foreign policies, more progressive on social issues, etc. McCain wasn't even a terrible candidate for them, just not his year.