re: #74 MandyManners

I HOPE EVERYONE WHO REFUSED TO VOTE FOR MCCAIN BECAUSE HE WASN’T CONSERVATIVE ENOUGH IS FUCKING HAPPY NOW.

McCain lost because he was a bad candidate who lacked the nerve necessary to actually fight on the merits. He should have said that Obama is barely out of the state house and left no legacy there. Before that, he was an associate law professor, publishing ZERO scholarly works concerning his take on any legal issue. Before that, he was a community organizer, but failed to bring any quantifiable change to his little organized community. McCain should have said that Obama has no executive experience whatsoever, but damn, he sure gives a fine speech. He should have said that Obama’s ideology is one not grounded in reality and though leftism sounds compassionate, incentivising government dependence is anything but compassionate. He should have said that Obama will subsidize his ideas on entitlements with future generations’ prosperity. He should have done a lot more, but he did not. He failed. His campaign failed.

But most of all the Republican Party failed. It and Bush failed in their golden opportunity to put his nation back on solid financial footing. They could have decentralized and pushed responsibility back to the states for over-bloated and ineffective federal entitlement programs. Instead, they acted like leftists and grew the federal government by leaps and bounds.

You blame the wrong people for Obama’s Sotomayor. The national Republican leadership, McCain included, have no one to blame but themselves for the election of novice Obama and all of his subsequent court appointments and executive actions.