Year: 2008

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Screen Junkies: 16 bad guys we’d rather see win Karol Sheinin: Take heart, conservatives! Obama’s election wasn’t quite the liberal victory it’s been made out to be Jewcy: How the Aryan Brotherhood saved my Jewish *ss in prison… Egotastic!: Gemma Arterton bikini […]

Obamunist quote of the day: I want my money today! It’s my money. I want it right now! These angry words were screamed by one of many Obama campaign workers in Indianapolis who have had trouble getting paid: Lines were long and tempers flared Wednesday not to vote but to get paid for canvassing for […]

After feeding off of emotional rhetoric and high-flying promises of the campaign, Democrats are now trying to lower expectations. Democratic leaders are tamping down on expectations for rapid change and trying to signal they will place a calm hand on the nation’s tiller. “The country must be governed from the middle,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi […]

What can Republicans believe in that can unify the party AND the nation? Fiscal responsibility. That’s right. Money. As in, the government is going bankrupt and with the economy constricting, tax receipts dwindling, and Barack Obama’s big plans all costing more money, what are the alternatives? Cut spending or raise taxes. Did John McCain even […]

* I’m not interested in “bipartisanship” and the Republicans in Congress shouldn’t be either — unless the Democrats are willing to move to the right, not vice-versa. When the Democrats push non-conservative legislation (which should account for almost everything they do), the GOP goal should be to throw sand in the gears at every opportunity. […]

Rightblogs Congressional Candidates (PA-12) Bill Russell: Murtha (58)% vs. Russell (42)% (CA-04) Tom McClintock: McClintock 50% vs. Brown 50% (PA-11) Lou Barletta: Kanjorski (52%) vs. Barletta (48%) (MD-01) Andy Harris: Kratovil (49%) vs. Harris (49%) (PA-04) Melissa Hart: Altmire (56%) vs. Hart (44%) (WI-08) John G Gard: Kagen (54%) vs. Gard (46%) (TX-22) Pete Olson: […]

Well, I received a good deal of derision both personally and professionally for keeping the McCain-Palin faith until the end. It was philosophical, really. Giving up when it’s not yet over is anathema to me. Still, we lost. What went wrong? McCain himself. Ace says it best. Obama pulled new youth voters. The troubled economy […]

Update your Newspeak dictionaries. Comrade Al Gore has issued a decree that we are now to refer to eco-Marxism as “sustainable capitalism.” Gore quotes moonbat icon Robert F. Kennedy to remind us that there are more important things that functional economies: [T]he Gross National Product measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom […]

Both the Democrats and the Republicans need to reach beyond their core supporters to win an election; however, it’s worth noting that the two parties have taken completely opposite approaches to dealing with moderates that have produced what may appear to be non-intuitive results. George Bush spent 8 years pursuing a “new tone,” he moved […]

Today is Q&A Friday #97 at RWN. So, if there’s a subject you’ve been wanting me to tackle or an issue you want to hear my opinion on, just ask your question in the comments section. Your question can be about just about anything: politics, ideology, history, blogging, RWN, from a liberal, conservative, or libertarian […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Ann Coulter: The reign of lame falls mainly on McCain Townhall Blog: Open memo to the conservative elite… Michelle Makin: The McCain campaign’s classless cowards CelebSlam: Heather Locklear bikini pics You can check out all those links and more by clicking here. […]

Kathleen Parker — who spent weeks trashing Sarah Palin in the run-up to the election in order to try to endear herself to the liberal media and D.C. cocktail set — seems to have alienated a few of the conservatives in flyover country judging by her column rankings at Townhall, I bet George Will, David […]

Because conservatives have a deep distrust of polling agencies, they often tend to simply disregard unpleasant poll numbers. This often causes a lot of conservatives to get the wrong idea about what’s going to happen in an election — and the blogosphere is not immune to that sort of thinking. As late as October 27th, […]

Michelle Malkin and Ace of Spades are both enraged by what Ace calls the “kneecapping” of Sarah Palin by Team Maverick staffers. I’ve said from the get-go that her PR was mishandled, and just offered this example at AmSpecBlog: Michelle Malkin has been a huge advocate and defender of Sarah Palin. Between Michelle’s own site […]

Over at Huffington Post, MELISSA CLOUTHIER: “By which I mean, get down off that cross, because we need to burn it, on someone’s front lawn.” The South wasn’t as solid Republican as it should have been. Can it be reenergized? I’ve arrived! I’ve been called a racist by a group who makes their identity their […]

When Sen. Ted Kennedy was diagnosed with cancer, I was possibly the first writer to look at what his treatment would be like if he were to be treated under the type of health care system he and other Democrats had been promoting for years. I called it “Ted Kennedy’s Cancer Treatment Under Socialized Medicine.” […]

On a phone conversation today, Person I was talking to: The good news is that we can go back to hating McCain. Me: I’m already there.

Interesting stuff. From a recently completed pre-election survey: The decisive defeat Republicans suffered in Tuesday’s election came because conservative voters decided the party had lost its way, not because the electorate has shifted to the left, according to Issue Autopsy ’08, a survey of swing state voters in Colorado, Florida, Ohio and Virginia commissioned by […]

Plugs Biden was right about one thing. Now that America’s incoming leadership makes us look like the skinniest punk on the cell block, it didn’t take long for the testing to begin. No sooner was the Moonbat Messiah elected than Russia came out with this: President Dmitry Medvedev says Russia will deploy missiles in its […]

* It’s amazing to me that Ted Stevens appears to be poised to win in Alaska. He was actually behind in the polls before his conviction and then the limited amount of polling done after he lost his case seemed to show a large drop in his support. How he managed to come from behind […]

There’s absolutely no question that the Republican Party leadership’s support of amnesty did cataclysmic damage to their fundraising and to the morale of their supporters. However, the amnesty and open borders crowd said never fear: we’ll make up for that with Hispanic voters. Well, since the GOP ran the Republican in our party who was […]

I have some random thoughts that I’m going to throw up here in no particular order of importance. I’ll put it in list form, though: We lost because the only coherent message McCain had was himself. Other than that, I agree with Ace. Not one “big idea”. It is not Sarah Palin’s fault we lost. […]

Michelle Malkin: “I’m getting a lot of moan-y, sad-face “What do we do now, Michelle?” e-mails. The first thing to do is to recognize what went wrong, as I explain in my American Spectator column: Try not to take it personally. You did not lose this election. Perhaps the most important statistic for conservatives to […]

The Republicans were taken to the woodshed last night and there is a very good reason why. For those still looking for an explanation, you can find it in the words of Ronald Wilson Reagan: A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be […]

Congratulations, moonbats. You finally have your revenge for being forced to look at all those flags after 9/11. This is a day of celebration for everyone hostile to America and the principles of individual liberty for which it stands. Enjoy it while you can. There are people lowdown enough to know in advance who and […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Atlas Shrugs: Atlas Shrugs vs. Little Green Footballs Part 1 Copious Dissent: Ten reasons to be happy about this election Cracked: 6 national anthems that will make you tremble with fear Egotastic!: Vida Guerra bikini pictures You can check out all those […]

(This is a story that I’ve always liked that seems particularly appropriate on a day like today.) In medieval China there once lived an old farmer who had a weak, ailing horse for ploughing his field. One day, the sickly horse ran away to the hills. The farmer’s neighbors offered their sympathy to him: “Such […]

Not only did Obama demolish John McCain, the Democrats added significantly to their margins in the House and Senate. This has already spurred discussion on whether conservatism is dead or the country is now “center-left” instead of “center-right.” Here’s what I would say to that. In 2004, George Bush beat John Kerry 51% to 48%. […]

You may not read another nice word from me about Barack Obama over the next four years, but today, I’m going to congratulate him, the Democratic Party, and the netroots. My guess is that they’ll be doing quite a bit of gloating today — and that’s fine, they deserve it. Although I would have certainly […]