Just got in. I have to admit I am just getting Fox News going. I spent the afternoon at the WinStar Casino just over the border in Oklahoma. Now I’ve got a brew and am ready to settle in for a while. Not sure how I’m going to do this yet, but everybody and anybody comment. I’ll throw out new posts as the Spirit leads me.
Posts concerning the Presidential race here.
Good Luck and God Bless!
Mel Maguire
steveflesher
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Watch Pennsylvania and Virginia. That’s my key for the evening.
So far, no take backs yet. Obama gets VT.
McCain KY.
McCain up early in VA and FL. It’s is going back and forth in IN.
If we get VA and IN then we are in good shape.
4:23 PST
We’ve got to have Virginia. If we get Pennsylvania and Ohio, I’m gonna get very excited.
Dems pick up a Senate seat in Virginia. That was expected.
McCain gets West Virginia. Looks like the coal miners don’t want Obama to bankrupt them.
“If we get Pennsylvania and Ohio, I’m gonna get very excited.”
You and me both!!!
Jefferson County, KY. Obama up by 7%. This is Louisville. Shouldn’t he be up by more? 42% reported so far.
I commented about Jefferson County, KY because you have a large black population, a university, and Lousiville is a large cityin KY.
Why isn’t Obama winning by more than 56 to 43? Where are all of these new young voters?
South Carolina goes McCain. Keep ‘em coming!!!!
I have to head home and go vote. Have fun you all. So far, I am still optimistic!!!!
Come back soon. John. I’ll be here for awhile.
I’m home…I nearly fell over when I got to my polling place, I only had to wait, like, 20 minutes.
The conversation was very encouraging there, but then again I live in a more conservative section of Phoenix.
Where’s my whiskey?!?
Ha! You’ll need the whiskey….
DC, Maryland, Massatoosies, Deleware, Illinois, and DC got to Obama.
McCain gets Oklahoma.
McCain gets Tennessee.
Obama gets Maine.
Oh yeah – Jersey and Connecticut go Obama. Duh!
Oh, I’ve got the whole bottle standing by.
New Hampshire goes Obama. Pretty much a clean sweep in the northeast for Obama.
We need the Midwest.
*Swig*
One down. Let’s go, McCain/Palin!
I have the Miller Lite going. I may be wishing I had whiskey later.
Pennsylvania goes Obama according to Fox News. Arkansas goes to McCain.
We needed Penn badly.
McCain is ahead in Virginia, though. And we may yet win Penn.
Maybe that’s the whiskey talkin’.
If Penn really has gone Obama, we need Ohio, FL and Virginia. We also can’t
lose NC.
Georgia goes McCain
That one actually shocked me. I really thought Obama was gonna win that one.
I think John is going to hang on to the South.
Obama: Wisconsin, New Mexico, Minnesota, New York, Rhode Island, Michigan
McCain: North Dakota, Wyoming
Not looking good.
Idaho and Kansas go to McCain
I think I might just lose all that whiskey.
Especially if Arizona goes to Obama.
Let’s also remember that this is all relying on exit polls. Don’t drink all of the whiskey yet. We’ll see.
Ohio to Obama……it maybe over
Michigan and Indiana are still showing McCain ahead. If he wins Michigan, I might fall over, but he’ll still have a chance.
Aaaaand Obama just pulled ahead and Nebraska.
Keep those barf bags handy, folks. We just hit turbulence.
I’m trying to figure out how to shelter my money.
I’m preparing to go to jail for refusing to obey the fairness doctrine.
Cue the R.E.M. track…
Utah and Texas go McCain. Iowa goes Obama. I’m about ready to go to bed now. I really want to wake up in the morning and find out that McCain actually won.
McCain just arrived at the Biltmore (ten minutes from my home) and the local news is saying the mood is pretty somber there.
Mississippi goes mcCain. Louisiana went McCain earlier too.
There’s still a chance. As long as there’s a pulse…
I couldn’t help but notice Murtha already giving his victory speech despite less than half of his precincts reporting numbers. I hope that comes back to bite him in the ass.
Lord…if Obama HAS to win…
I’m coming in a little late, but I had planned for the worst. This had to happen, folks.
There are simply not enough Americans who aren’t informed enough to the point where they understand what happens when the media picks a candidate.
First, they chose McCain for Republicans – the media absolutely loved him, remember?
Second, the chose Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton when indeed Hillary won the popular vote over Obama in the primaries.
Third, since then it’s been in the tank for Obama – the most liberal candidate available.
Every connection he had to wrongdoers was ignored.
Every contradiction, vote of “present” was ignored.
Every time he had the chance to side with Americans on taxes, he voted against them.
Sarah Palin was an excellent choice for a leader. But in lieu of focusing on her actual record in Alaska as Governor, larger percents of time were spent reporting on her wardrobe, on her resemblance to Tina Fey, on “Troopergate,” and on her pregnant daughter.
What could we expect?
What’s the lesson?
Well, the popular vote thus far – even after Obama’s win in Virginia, still shows that Obama failed to give a landslide in the popular vote.
So, we hope that the Senate stays filibuster-proof. We hope we don’t lose too many seats in 2010 (don’t forget more Republican seats are up for re-election than Democrats) ending that small shimmer of hope we might have – especially with Kentucky’s choice to keep McConnell.
We wait patiently for the Fairness Doctrine to pass basically putting an end to talk radio. We wait patiently for the Freedom of Choice Act to pass so that young teens can have abortions and have more unprotected sex without their parents knowing.
We wait patiently for the unemployment rates to soar, for taxes to rise, for inflation to skyrocket, and for national interest rates to fly up.
We save as much earned income as we can in the next two years before the Bush tax cuts are ended so that we are prepared for whatever recessions are coming our way.
We work harder next time (and I’m sorry to bring this up now) to not settle for a candidate who voted for a campaign finance reform bill that only hurt him. We make sure we don’t settle for a candidate who votes to grant amnesty to 20 million illegal immigrants only to have illegals in New Mexico turn out for Obama thinking that he’s their guy.
Trying to befriend liberals by compromising our principles as conservatives was warned by people we called extremists like Ann Coulter – who called McCain the inevitable Bob Dole. She’s correct.
Being a war hero is commendable. I love McCain for his sacrifice to this country. That’s one thing I can say thank you to John McCain for.
The second thing: Sarah Palin. Fact is she shook this country up.
Conservatives like Coulter and even myself (and I am not ashamed to put myself in her category) understand that Republican voters understand the next two things.
1.) Four years of John McCain would have hurt less than four years of Obama but not convincingly enough to prevent him (and Sarah Palin) from losing the White House in 2012 to who else? Hillary Clinton who would have held it for two terms with no problem.
2.) Four years of Obama will propel Americans to give a second look at conservative ideals once Obama leads us into a depression. Then, we re-run Sarah Palin as our front-runner in 2012 and select a TRUE conservative as her running mate.
We’re still going to be here. Many of my most cherished and admired friends on here may disagree with the tenor of my message here. But we need to stick together and turn this attack machine around on the Democrats as they did for eight years.
We need to re-organize, reiterate what our principles are, and move forward starting NOW, not in four years.
There are enough votes out there – and you see them when you look at the TV tonight that suggests this country still holds a strong conservative belief.
My brother; who is undergoing brain surgery in the morning, told me that his Doctor joked with him about not doing the surgery if my brother was an Obama supporter.
Those ideals are still out there.
It’s over, let’s breathe and develop a strong rescue plan for 2012.
I’m off to bed bro. But all I can say is amen. Either conservative principles will trump after a couple of years of President Obama, or else you, I and Mel are just spinning our wheels and should give up.
Unfortunately I don’t have a lot of faith in the American people right now. This isn’t the America I know. To hand over the reigns of power to a Marxist radical. I’m really demoralized right now. I just hope a conservative leader arises that will change my mind. But I’m not counting on it. And Mr. GW Bush assured our destruction.
I’ll regroup later and look for answers.
Amen, Steve.
Time to back away from the bottle. I still gotta try to get up at four a.m. and go to the gym.
At least I’ll have plenty of adrenaline to work out.
Well, invite me to the regrouping please. I’m completely rudderless at this point.
We have President Obama, Murtha did indeed win, and Allen West lost in Florida.
Not much for me to hang onto, is there?
Yes there is folks. Michelle Bachmann kept her seat even after the “Obama is anti-American” controversy.
Al Franken ran neck and neck with Norm Coleman all night and Coleman kept his GOP seat by a mere few hundred votes.
McConnell kept Kentucky.
We are in as good of shape as we could be. I just pray that we take this as a lesson. We cannot run “moderate” Republicans and expect to win. McCain was moderate on many issues, too moderate to serve as the political maverick he aspired to be.
The media knew what they were doing. They promoted our weakest and least conservative candidate. Then as soon as he won the primary, they turned on him.
Philip said something interesting about GW Bush. And I agree to a point. Bush did well with refraining from caving into Democratic pressure in regard to the war and his policies to keep us safe.
He also gave us two wonderful Supreme Court Justices.
But I am with Phil on his failures as a spender and his failures with illegal immigration where he – along with McCain – supported granting amnesty to 20 million illegals, and finally his support for the bailout.
I thank him for his contribution to battling our enemies. I thank John McCain for his superior war service.
However; politically, I am ready for the both of them to be gone so we can take the steps to re-build a truly conservative party again.
Sorry I had to bug out last night.
There are plenty of empty vodka bottles all over my living room floor. Did we all watch an election or was it a Wake we attended?
I’m wondering if it wasn’t a wake, considering the newest sharp dip in stocks today.