Well said, Smitty. Check out my new post at Confessions to find out the latest hollywood stupidity.

I held my nose to vote for McCain and thought the exact same thing that you just wrote, Smitty.

I agree entirely. It is eye-opening to see exactly how terrible the Smartest President in History is at understanding mathematics, economics, philosophy, history, and science.

Perzactly, Sir!

JMac would have been another soporific dose to the sensibilities of most “middle-of-the-road” folks. And there are a whole lot of folks who will pretend to be in the “middle” regardless of their real beliefs. There’s a whole lot of delusion out there, and GWB took advantage of it. So would JMac have.

But now, push has come to shove, and those folks have to decide if they are on the side of the Angels, or the side of the Devil.

More and more of us can see the mouth of the Socialistic Hell that is being brought upon us opening to swallow our Republic. Awareness is good.

Resistance is spreading. One can only hope that enough real Americans remember what this Nation is about. I think they will.

McCain would have been better in at least one area: foreign policy. He gives off enough of a crazy-old-coot vibe that Putin and the mullahs would have been kept off balance, and perhaps our allies (say, the Brits and the Israelis) would have had confidence in his doing the right thing.

Not with Barry, of course. They know they can crap all over him, and nothing will happen.

I have been saying this for over a year now. McCain would have driven to the exact same place, he just would have used the scenic route that lulled all of us to sleep.

IMAO Obama created much more alarm among average Americans and nearly terror and mortal dread among those of us who have an idea of what the Social Democrats really have in store for us in the long run.
My fear is that the average American still doesn’t grasp the truly mortal nature of the danger to our Republic and our freedoms. Some who may have read comments wherein I refer to 1894 instead of 1994. In 1894 the Republicans gained 130 House seats. For me to take heart from November’s election results doesn’t require the Social Democrats loosing 130 seats. However I feel it’s crucial that a ridiculously large number of seats change hands in the house. Angle’s successful election in Nevada is also a crucial sign of understanding not because she’s not extremely right wing but because she is. The same logic applies to Rand Paul in Kentucky. If swing vote independents can’t support some of the more “out there” conservatives then we can probably be sure the necessary rightward lurch is not possible through the ballot box.
For me to see actual progress virtually all Democrats running for any position in the southern third of the Gulf States and any office in Arizonia should be defeated.

Gigi: throwing Bush in our faces is a straw-man argument, most who opine here have little more regard for Bush than for Obama.

We wing-nuts don’t believe in utopias that’s a leftist fantasy.

Quite correct in the whole: it would have been unlikely to have been able to mount the anti-government effort from the grassroots if McCain had been elected. Of course, the premise relies upon the faith we will face no foreign policy crises, and Obama still has nearly 2.5 years to screw that up, beginning with Iran’s nukes.

By the same token, it would serve our long-term interests best to fall just short of taking the House and Senate in November, winning just enough votes to block the most odious initiatives but without giving Obama a “do-nothing Republican Congress” to run against.

You go Kejda gg!

How do we back out of this mess? We are probably stuck with a renovated nation wherein all of the renovations are tacky, degraded and irreversible. These guys have made structural changes to government and I don’t see how we are going to painlessly undo them.

“No, that thud of the back against the wall is a fantastic motivator.” is a great line, but the nation has the motivation to do what, exactly? We are in an even bigger hole than before; how the heck are we going to get out of it?

If McCain had won, then I would be taking a different tact instead of the Tea Party movement. I was disgusted with the fact that he got the nomination. That alone made me want to do something more active in politics to change things, the Tea Party just became the means.

RE> “…..While unemployment might be lower, budget deficits would certainly be lower…”
Might be lower. I wonder what McCain would have done to achieve that? Cut taxes for the top 2% some more perhaps? That sure worked its magic the last time it was tried. And how would a tax cut like that translated into a lower deficit? The previous tax cut for the rich sure didn’t do anything to reduce our deficit…..in fact it raised it. This is why it is called VooDoo economics my friend!

Ironically enough, a McCain victory would have been exactly what the Leftards want: permanent consignment of the Republican Party to the political wilderness.

Four years of THAT douchebag would convince just about anyone (by which I mean real Americans, not Democrats or “Progressives”) to vote Libertarian or Constitution Party. Unfortunately for the country, neither of those Parties is staffed with anyone blessed by anything approaching competence.