(2008-11-09) — The finger-pointing on the McCain campaign staff continued today as an unnamed former top adviser placed the blame for the loss to Barack Obama on someone who has thus far escaped responsibility.
“It’s not Gov. Palin’s fault. It’s my bad,” said the anonymous source. “I’m the diva. I went rogue. And heaven knows, I spent huge sums of money on ridiculous things. I wasn’t alone in scuttling the ship, but I take personal responsibility…you know, without attribution.”
While the former adviser said he accepts the blame for the defeat, he spoke only on the condition of anonymity, “to protect my future chances of hopping another one of these sweet gravy trains.”
“We worked for two people whose character and integrity were their chief positives,” the now-unemployed former insider said, “Frankly, the average mercenary political consultant like me doesn’t have a lot of experience with those kind of folks. So, we really had no clue how to run their campaign. As a result, we got spanked.”
“The important thing for people to remember,” he added, “is that win or lose, the consultants still get paid.”
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1 JamesonLewis3rd // Nov 9, 2008 at 7:34 am
God Bless America
2 JamesonLewis3rd // Nov 9, 2008 at 8:26 am
I daresay it is not premature to start blaming BO for every negative aspect of life anywhere in the universe (past, present and future)—from each individual Zit on any face anywhere in the universe (past, present and future) to the existence of each individual fire Ant anywhere in the universe (past, present and future)—Therefore, I hereby blame BO for the recent disintegration of the left-front wheel bearing on my Dodge.
3 mindknumbed kid // Nov 9, 2008 at 8:42 am
I think we need a transition period JL3, while heretofore it would definitely have been all Bush’s fault and even though the press is treating Obama as though he is already running the show, it really isn’t “fair” to blame him - yet. I’m thinking that during this interim period that maybe it would be appropriate to assign the blame to John McCain!
4 RepublicanAttackMachine // Nov 9, 2008 at 8:43 am
During yesterday’s “Rainbow PUSH Obama Coronation” on “The WORD” network, Je$$e refered, (more than a few times), to “President Obama”!
I guess he does not know the White House is still being occupied by the current President.
I hope Obama doesn’t think he can pardon Resko yet! He will have to wait a couple of months before that can happen.
He is still in that newly created, “Office of the President Elect”.
Je$$e is lobbing hard for a cabinet post, hoping Obama will forget that “Cut his %@$# off-” thing.
5 mindknumbed kid // Nov 9, 2008 at 8:45 am
Scott, it appears to me that the blog’s clock is incorrect. Did it forget to fall back?
6 JamesonLewis3rd // Nov 9, 2008 at 9:14 am
All kidding aside, this country is now on BO’s watch as star of The OP-E Show; therefore, he should be indicted for war crimes and impeached.
7 NeaL // Nov 9, 2008 at 9:38 am
Just a few quick little stories:
My kids have been really getting into nature, here at our new house in a rural area. Our eldest daughter has brought bags full of acorns into the house.
So my mom finally came by with the “Palin Power” hat I had ordered from JohnMcCain.com, weeks ago. It arrived the day before the election rendered it irrelevant.
My daughter headed off towards the trees with the “Palin Power” hat in hand. I yelled to her, “Don’t you dare put any ACORNs in that hat!!!
One of the downsides of my being a musician is also being a minority Conservative. Since I have been in many gatherings when I was surrounded by Obama buttons and this now-collectors-item hat being my only example of McCain/Palin appearal, I attended a Guy Fawkes celebration in Maryland (blue state).
Many beers and spirited political discussions later, I reached an epiphany:
They may gloat for only a short while before it is an obsolete topic . I, on the other hand, can now complain, insult, and blame every little thing on a President someone else elected for at least the next 4 years. It’s a lot easier than defending and making excuses for the guy I voted for.c
8 Beerme // Nov 9, 2008 at 10:22 am
NeaL,
Cute story!
The problem with the ability to “Blame ‘Bama”, is that the media will not aid that effort. The result will never approach the “Blame Bush” hysteria we’ve seen over the past six years, deserved or not…
Scott,
Another fine offering! So appropriate!
9 onlineanalyst // Nov 9, 2008 at 10:49 am
I blame Gore-bull warming. The Obamabots, who spend their days asking, “Do you want fries with that?” have demonstrated that the heat of the fryer has melted their brains.
“Free” gas? Check! “Free” mortgages and/or housing? Check! “Free” healthcare? Check! “Free” college education? Check! ad nauseum…
Now that THE ONE has his followers in a database that can be transposed from his campaign site to his newly minted O-PE gov site, Big Brother will not be far behind.
Not only will his minions “Obey!” but the whole world will fall to its knees with open hands outstretched to grasp the wealth that “justice” demands that they receive.
Your firstborn and all others thereafter (if they are permitted to come to full term in perfect health and beauty) will be impressed into government service- er, servitude- either through the hard work that Mama Obama promised or through the privilege of taxation (without representation) that Uncle Joe (”Say it isn’t so!) claims is the height of patriotism.
Heh, the dimwits that ran around frightened that BushCo was listening in on their secret pizza orders can now be assured that that their cell phones and their IPs/email addresses are firmly in the database of the Loyal.
Let the Axelrod astroturfing proceed in earnest in order to snuff out free thought and free speech. But, hey, the re-education camps will be free in their place.
Obama has sold his soul to the highest bidder in order to impress upon the world his superior vision of how we should live our lives. What’s not to like? What was I thinking up to this time?
Word has it that campaign workers in Indiana have been paid with unused pre-paid credit cards. (Who purchased these untraceable items?)
ACORNs are only little nuts, you know.
Little pink-er, “red”- cells, y’all. The Mutt, “That one,” has your number.
10 Tinman // Nov 9, 2008 at 11:04 am
“The important thing for people to remember,†he added, “is that win or lose, the consultants still get paid.â€
That is almost identical to what I heard my broker say to his secretary in the next room just before I dumped him.
11 camojack // Nov 9, 2008 at 11:29 am
Someone asked me if I’m thinking of leaving the country.
Other than my upcoming trip to Costa Rica, I replied that I am not some si11y crybaby liberal…
12 Godfrey // Nov 9, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Egospeak: #115 “How many times have you heard those in favor of abortion complain that those who oppose abortion are trying to impose their religion or morality on them?â€
A fair point. There will always be issues that bridge the gap between religion and politics. I think the problems stem not from voters using their religious sensibilities to guide their moral decisions (which is quite natural, obviously) but from cagey politicians manipulating those religious sensibilities to cast everything in terms of good and evil or damnation and salvation.
Hank: #116 Fine points all, but none of this changes the fact that separation of church and state is an accepted legal doctrine. It is an idea that has been cited in Supreme Court decisions for more than 150 years. It’s real.
I personally think it’s a good one, too: not just for the sake of the non-religious but also for the sake of the religious. Why would anyone want their spirituality to become something cold and institutional? If you’ve ever been to the Scandanavian countries, you’ve seen what such a thing can become. They are secularized, of course, but they have a constitutional recognition of their “national†religion which has become passionless and trite.
It’s important to protect religion from government, but it’s also important to protect government from religion. Think of how Turkey would look without laïcité. It might be just like, say, Iran. Why would any of us willingly start down that road?
13 BlackLion31U // Nov 9, 2008 at 1:31 pm
JL3 #2,
The problem with your line of thought is……you bought a DODGE! What were you thinking?
14 simone // Nov 9, 2008 at 1:58 pm
BlackLion31U #13 The problem with your line of thought is……you bought a DODGE! What were you thinking?
I had a Dodge once; exactly the same wheel bearing problem-over and over again until I got rid of it. Service bay managers will tell you Dodges have front end problems.
As for the recent loss by J. McCain-I feel badly for him. His campaign did seem scattered. There was not enough clear differentiation from his opponents. All of the infighting, blame, media-hating, finger pointing, etc. did not help his campaign before the election and will not help now in figuring out where to go from here.
Being cruel and caustic will not help us to keep our country on the right track. We need serious people with serious principles to step forward and guide our country into the future.
15 Ms RightWing, Ink // Nov 9, 2008 at 2:29 pm
Mr O
I’m still waiting for my free car. And yes, I will take a MOPAR (Dodge) with a gas guzzling, window rattling, ozone killing hemi. Make that two four barrels please. If you don’t have one, a mini-van will do.
ALERT
Thirty-five miles north of my bunker an illegal Kenyan nationalist is hiding. If sighted, call the INS-not the faux White House. She may be armed with credit cards. Cleveland, you have to root her out. If not, she will jiks the Browns.
Ooops to late for that.
Since I am in De-Nile, as reported on that last page, I am going to visit the great pyramids. Anybody want an asp? I will pick up a few while I am here.
Tut tut now. ‘Nuff said
16 Darthmeister // Nov 9, 2008 at 2:39 pm
This all goes to show ya that McCain and his staff are out of touch with reality. It isn’t the staffer’s fault any more than it was McCain’s fault or Sarah Palin’s fault that McCain lost … IT’S BUSH’S FAULT!
It’s just as the Donks have been saying, McCain was Bush’s secret clone!!!
JFK Jr. Challenges Need for Wind Turbines
JFK Jr. and Ted Kennedy (among other Donks) are such utter eco-hypocrites. The only reason they don’t want wind turbines off of Martha’s Vineyard, for example, is because they think it would clutter up the view! Not in my backyard, eh, libs?
Of course the turbines are far enough off the shore to be over-the-horizon. Doh!
17 egospeak // Nov 9, 2008 at 2:42 pm
Godfrey,
I am not doubting your word that the phrase “separation of church and state” has been cited in decisions for 150 years, but for my benefit since I am not a constitutional scholar, could you please provide a couple of examples? With context. Thanks.
Regards,
18 egospeak // Nov 9, 2008 at 2:47 pm
Darth,
I think you mean RFK Jr seeing as JFK Jr has been dead for 9 years.
Regards,
19 Darthmeister // Nov 9, 2008 at 2:48 pm
Godfrey,
… separation of church and state is an accepted legal doctrine. It is an idea that has been cited in Supreme Court decisions for more than 150 years. It’s real.
It’s only “real” because SCOTUS had deceived the American people with the canard that their decision accurately reflects original founding opinion … which is either an incredibly naivete or an outright lie. In my view any “law” based on a lie or deception is no law at all. But I understand your perspective.
However, I don’t agree with your statement that that “separation of church and state” has been cited in Supreme Court decisions favorable to your position for more than 150 years. Would you care to cite them? I have Supreme Court decisions from the last two hundred years that support my contention and I would be more than happy to cite them since I have them in a database. Stare decisis and all that.
BTW, will you have to go to atheist blogsites to glean the information I request or is present opinion the result of several decades worth of your own personal study which excludes, to one degree or another, being unduly biased by the opinons of others who have axes to grind against the original Judeo-Christian character of our nation’s founders? Just wondering.
20 JamesonLewis3rd // Nov 9, 2008 at 2:52 pm
21 JamesonLewis3rd // Nov 9, 2008 at 3:00 pm
The SCOTUS cites snippets of personal letters as the basis for their decisions all of the time. The record is replete with such instances. I mean it. Really. No kidding.
22 Ms RightWing, Ink // Nov 9, 2008 at 3:06 pm
The New York Times wrote this article in which they are just a little confused on how “O” will be able to keep his layers and layers of political promises.
The Democrats have been active on our topic page so I answered them this way. Likely the ABJ will delete this article as well. They don’t like me very well at our Rubber Dust newspaper
http://www.ohio.com/news/top_stories/34162789.html
g, hank, and others.
What free gift are you waiting for? Sour grapes?-not here. When a soldier falls, the troops come to his aid. Our party fell. McCain was not our political hero instead we came alive when Sarah Palin joined the ticket.
McCain is a true war hero though. We can’t deny that, but he was pretty much a RINO in the political arena.
Obama is the new president. The debate can go on for days about his tactics which he has employed since his first political run in Illinois. I myself will not spend time in the sour grape vineyard as you all like to use a metaphor, but instead working for the revival of the conservative party and you can be assured that will happen. They conservatives are the soldiers we will rescue.
Time for many of us to move on. The conservative movement has to enter the new century of politics. E-mails, cell phone messaging and much more computer work must be put into the political machine, as well as knocking on doors, meeting for coffee one on one to explain the conservative ideals and perhaps even more street politicians from the right have to be seen and be heard.
The political pendulum swings both ways and it can not swing much further to the left. Even Nancy Pelosi said that in her statement last week that they must govern from the center. Problem is, the new Democrats have no idea where the center is.
So you can have your nah, nah, nah days, but likely we will be to busy to hear you. God bless you, God “bless,” Obama and for you Rev. Wright, in case you don’t know, we have been asking God to bless America.
Oh, by the way, which free gift will you NOT be getting? After all that is what Peter Baker of the New York Times is asking. All I hear is silence.
23 Godfrey // Nov 9, 2008 at 3:14 pm
Egospeak: I am certainly not a constitutional scholar either, but the first time the court cited the separation between church and state was, I believe, back in 1878 in this case (which actually 130 years, my mistake). They may have done so earlier, but this is the first instance of which I am aware. It was also cited in cases during the 1940s.
Hank: “…SCOTUS had deceived the American people…â€
Are you serious? Personally, I think most of the justices take their jobs very seriously and render their decisions to the very best of their ability. Decisions are still sometimes informed by each justice’s personal ideology, I’m sure, but to call them liars or “naïve†is sort of silly, especially for someone who is, after all, merely posting to the comment section of a blog (even one who has a decision database at his disposal) and not entrusted by the Constitution to interpret the law.
You may not agree with their decisions, but they are, in fact, legal doctrine. Stare decisis and all that.
24 Godfrey // Nov 9, 2008 at 3:16 pm
Sorry, bad link. Here’s the case in question.
25 Godfrey // Nov 9, 2008 at 3:25 pm
Hank: one more thing regarding “…the original Judeo-Christian character of our nation’s founders”.
Of course many of our founders were Judeo-Christian: but that doesn’t mean they wanted to infuse their new government with religion.
If they wanted a Christian government, Hank, all they had to do was mention it-just once-in the Constitution.
Why didn’t they?
26 Godfrey // Nov 9, 2008 at 3:38 pm
Ms RightWing:
An interesting story along the lines of your post, particularly with regards to evangelicals and where they might go next, can be found on MSNBC.com.
Sorry for the Godfrey flood, everyone.
27 JamesonLewis3rd // Nov 9, 2008 at 5:54 pm
Decisions made by the SCOTUS “based on personal ideology” are unconstitutional.
28 onlineanalyst // Nov 9, 2008 at 5:55 pm
FWIW, remembering that the source is the NYT reporting from jihadists’ websites and a number of anonymous sources, there is a lot of excitement about Obama’s election in jihadi world, some of it is generated by the fact that THE ONE’s daddy was a Muslim.
BHO had better have American interests at heart when he steps into the world of adult decisions and actions come January. Much is dependent on the wisdom of his advisors. The time for political second-guessing and one-upsmanship is over.
I wish that I had confidence in his judgment.
Putin’s puppet, Medeved, is already sizing up BHO, and the messages coming from Russia and Poland/Czech Republic are at odds about the nature of the discussions that their leaders have had with THE ONE.
Will the man-child heed the advice of Congress with its 9% approval rating? Or will he be attuned to advisors that largely are old hands of the Washington-insiders’ sphere of influence?
If you think that Jennifer Granholm represents the best and brightest of economic advisors, you will love John Kerry as SoS.
I would rather have Dick Cheney as president personally.
29 onlineanalyst // Nov 9, 2008 at 6:56 pm
For my own peace of mind, I think that I will heed the advice of the Powerline guys: Worry, Be Happy.
This advice I will temper with the adage that “The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.”
30 J. Cougar Melancholy // Nov 9, 2008 at 7:33 pm
Yes! Darth Cheney for President in ‘12! We can call the White House the Death Star.
I can just see the Repug candidates, including the Sadist and the Ding-Bat.
31 gafisher // Nov 9, 2008 at 8:13 pm
RAM Re#4: “Je$$e is lobbing hard for a cabinet post, hoping Obama will forget …”
I think he’s holding out for Surgeon General.
32 gafisher // Nov 9, 2008 at 8:23 pm
JCM Re#30: Apt comparison. Michigan’s economy has come to resemble Alderaan under Generous Jenny’s leadership.
33 Darthmeister // Nov 9, 2008 at 9:48 pm
• Obama to use executive orders for immediate impact
Oh, I bet there will be an immediate impact. All hail Caesar Obama!
And let’s not forget how the Obamatons were whining the last seven years about Bush’s executive orders, even the more benign ones. They were calling him “Hitler”.
BTW, has anyone else noticed how Obama supporters already see the sky as bluer, the grass as greener, all the pretty flowers and rainbows and yet nothing substantive has changed about America? They must be coming out of their Bush Derangement Syndrome and are now seeing the world as it really is … you know, America really wasn’t all that bad. I guess attitude is everything, eh?
Of course this condition might swing in the other direction if under the Obama regime gas spikes over $5/gal, inflation heads toward the double-digits, the financial markets stay flat or drop even further, and unemployment creeps toward 8 or even 9%. Why they’ll probably think they’re living in utopia with Obama at the helm! Either that or they’ll continue blaming Bush the whole time. Go figure.
34 MajorDomo // Nov 9, 2008 at 11:12 pm
JL3, you ought to buy a DODGE. They make good left turns!
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35 Harry Daschle // Nov 10, 2008 at 2:56 am
JCM: It appears Ben Rottenberger has found another use for your team’s “terrible towel”,-to cry into! haha!
http://sports.aol.com/nfl/story/_a/bbdp/late-pick-keeps-colts-playoff-hopes/242442?icid=100214839×1212670603x1200770893
The way you have cried here about Bush in the past, I bet you had a teary eye too, after seeing your chump team stink up the place today.
BTW moron, this is R.A.M.. I am only using this log in because someone has attacked my P.C. and caused it to crash.
I expect that it is the work of a lib as they are the only ones to use such “behind your back” tactics.
I am still in a good mood seeing your “Stealers” get what they deserve. I do, however feel bad for Mike Tomlin. He and Leftwich, (next weeks starter), are the only decent people on the entire team!
36 J. Cougar Melancholy // Nov 10, 2008 at 3:24 am
Hey RAM,
True! It hurt to see them get beat. Ben’s a sack magnet and tosses it to the other team waaaay too many times. Leftwich has an arm like a cannon and I’m looking forward to the next game.
Best wishes for your ailing PC. I doubt it was lib-induced. Perhaps it just succumbed to the abuse of your angry, meaty, one chromosome-too-many redneck gorilla fingers. I will pray for a cure if you think it will help.
Love to you and yours,
Coug
37 R.A.M. // Nov 10, 2008 at 3:38 am
JCM: No, PLEASE do not pray. I wouldn’t want you to burst into flames.
I preformed a system restore and got some things back.
Here is another, “too rediculous item”. Although, I am sure you will want several JCM:
http://www.shopcsntv.com/!!-EEQqSrQG!bb5Huo6JyNw!/Obama-Biden
Who knows, it may be the only currency America will have after Obama runs our economy in the ground soon?
38 R.A.M. // Nov 10, 2008 at 3:42 am
http://www.shopcsntv.com/Obama-Biden
39 R.A.M. // Nov 10, 2008 at 3:45 am
10 for $9.99 for the colorized Obama/Biden coins.
I wonder if there is a discount for the black and white version?
40 R.A.M. // Nov 10, 2008 at 3:49 am
Read it wrong, even MORE rediculous it is $99.95 for 10!
Guess they are trying to get some of their “contribution bucks” back.
41 gafisher // Nov 10, 2008 at 7:15 am
JCM Re#36: “… one chromosome-too-many redneck gorilla fingers.”
Persons afflicted with this syndrome are neither the cause of their condition nor suitable subjects for your ridicule. That was simply inexcusable.
42 Darthmeister // Nov 10, 2008 at 9:40 am
I kid you not:
32 absentee ballots have been found in Minneapolis, and that they would be counted. The Coleman campaign requested a restraining order this morning, to delay counting until the chain of possession could be verified, but they settled for a statement from a city attorney pledging that the ballots had safely been in a Democratic election official’s backseat for the last five days.
If al Franken and the Democrats are successful in stealing this election it will be the biggest joke of which Franken has ever been a part.
National socialist media response: No story here, folks, please move along.
43 reagankid // Nov 11, 2008 at 12:18 am
Hilarious post! If only someone would realize their own responsibility! Giving the leftist illuminati fodder and damaging a person in the eye of the public is short-sighted and selfish.
But then, I’m not sure what I expected from campaign flunkies.
44 PanamaRed // Nov 11, 2008 at 1:57 am
It’s pitiful when someone screws up and only finds out after the house burns down that gasoline doth not a good fire starter make. The way the finger is getting pointed at Sarah Palin for McCain’s defeat by faux republicans is simply a reflection of just how effective she actually was.
I saw and heard it said that in order to become a dominant political power again, that the GOP would have to abandon the evangelical right. This puzzled me greatly until I “saw the light” so to speak. The answer came when I asked myself “Why?” It’s because the evangelicals hold to a set of beliefs that is now merely a source of ridicule to the “educated elitists.”
On the face of it, it is easy to ridicule belief in the Bible on some literal terms as it is with every religion’s tenets as individual incidents but that is not the crux of the issue. The belief that there is a God that sits in judgement of those who have sinned and those who deny that such a God exists are the same ones who voted for” hope and change”, while never thinking that God is the hope for man to change. Evolution cannot be proven although adaptation can yet no man can create life, he can only facilitate it’s creation, and that is why they envy the Believer for no matter how great their science has become, they cannot fathom the gift of life and deep down, I think most know this but deny it and would also deny the religious membership in their party yet open it to any and everyone else. This country was founded on a belief in God to free the people from the tyranny of both the church and government. They asked for Divine guidance and it was given to them. It is our job to follow that guidance or lose all we hold dear.
WV: Counts Deposits = IRS
45 gafisher // Nov 11, 2008 at 6:22 am
PanamaRed Re: “I saw and heard it said that in order to become a dominant political power again …“
The GOP has moved from being the Party that believed in, well, something, to just another Party that believes in anything, territory already held by the Democrats. In order to become a dominant, or even significant, power, the GOP has to return to the concept that there is a higher good than political expediency.
The left, both outside and within the GOP, has labored to define principle as an exclusively “religious right” position, and in so doing has even thrown doubt on its appearance in our founding documents, national anthem, courts, even our money.
What the GOP must abandon is its acquiescence to the assertion that “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” both explicitly and as expounded in the Constitution, are “religious right” ideas and return to defending those as “genuinely right” ideas.
46 mindknumbed kid // Nov 13, 2008 at 10:43 pm
Amen to that, PanamaRed… or is it oh me to that?
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