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This republicans just do get it, when you give tax cuts to only the rich who by the way are already doing just fine, where does that leave the rest of the country, you have to expand your horizons, if not you will stay in the minority. TRUST ME SARAH PALIN IS NOT THE ANSWER!
From an independent voter.

Why do people still believe that Sarah Palin could be president in 2012. Stop eating the moose burgers. Mccain loost because of Sarah. Many people were mobilized just to vote AGAINST insanity in the white house.

I'm impressed that far right people like toddoncapecod still think Sarah Palin was a great choice for VP. Her presence cost McCain my vote. I've got nothing against women in power, but it took hours for me to realize Palin was dangerous, narrow minded, unqualified, and entirely too stupid to handle the job. There were a lot better female Republicans he could've chosen, but he didn't and sealed my vote that night. If she runs in '12, Democrats are guaranteed another win. Her campaign strategy was nasty, which turned me away from McCain even further, and her "facts" were easily shot down as fiction. Plus, after months of touting Obama's inexperience, McCain picked a 1/2 term governor who was mayor of a town of 5,000 people prior to that. Yeah...she had the experience, had McCain's health failed! Besides, the only people "experienced" to be president are EX-presidents!

I freak out every time I think of those two running the country. God has truly saved us from this possible horror.

"McCain's speech Thursday at the conservative think tank..."
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There are the makings for an oxymoron here: McCain at think tank.

"McCain's speech Thursday at the conservative think tank..."
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There is the makings for an oxymoron here: McCain at think tank.

Here we go, slam Palin around some more. While you're at it, why not take a few more cheap shots at her family. Have any of you geniuses ever done any real thinking or do you just let certain media talking heads form your opinions? Get a life! The election is over.
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I don't ever recall anyone taking a "cheap shot" at her family. People pointed out that it's awfully contradictory that she's vehemently abstinence-only but had a pregnant teenage daughter, but that's not a cheap shot. A cheap shot is more like taking a small part of a really inspirational speech and twisting it to say that a candidate's wife hates this country. And then to use that parsed and twisted sentence over and over and over and over for months on end, even after the election. That'd be a cheap shot.

To the republicans that think the popular vote was a tossup here are some numbers so you can realize how bad your party really did:

Barack H. Obama (D)
Electoral 365
Popular 69,456,897
John S. McCain (R)
Electoral 173
Popular 59,934,814

I would say 9 million plus is a pretty darn good victory margin for popular vote too. Secessionist Barbie is making the GOP a pariah and you have tunnel vision if you don’t realize it. I guess that is why they refer to a vast majority of Americans as 'wackjobs".

So much hate in our country. It's no wonder we're going down hill. I'm a life long Alaskan and while I did not vote for Palin – she is still our Governor and deserves respect. Respect for those who serve in the most thankless positions – serving our public. So easy to point a finger and judge someone else for the decisions they make. So easy for the news media to take something out of context for the sake of selling their paper. Now, all those who read this – you have no idea who I am but I'm sure I'll be blasted for commenting because it's "so easy" to do.

Can' t take the truth can you.....so sorry.

Erin
what is scary is that you voted for a man that had less then 200 days in the federal system and look what the hell he is doing now raising our debt to a level that is higher then all presidents before him. He had NO Experience but hey he did vote Present.

I dislike Marxist Communists, intensely.
Especialy, those who do not even know what those words mean.

Maybe it will make more sense in Republican speak:

Obama is the 'decider ' now, so it's 'his way or the highway'.

What a shame. Just shows how out of touch the GOP is is – they turned John McCain, a man I used to respect (and I am a Democrat) into a joke. But Palin is the much bigger joke – but not a funny joke. She's creepy the way Hitler was creepy.

Nobody I know did, Senator McCain. I did not vote for you, but many of my family did– and most of my family (all Republicans) voted for you in spite of Governor Palin. I know this is purely anecdotal, but then most of my family lives in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas, so maybe not.

It is terrifying that this country is now being run by an 'empty suit' with nothing but left wing dogma directing his every move. America is in deep trouble and the liberals posting here with their hate filled rhetoric toward an American POW, Sen. John McCain and the talented and poised Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, says oh so much more about the characterless left. The DNC "hate Palin talk" is so canned (that's program to the uneducated lefties in the ACORN crowd) that it is really sad they can't find anyone with 1/2 a brain to speak intelligently or read a book or magazine to come up with some new talking points on their own.
The liberal media elected Obama this time, but they may not be so lucky in 2010. His intolerance to be questioned about his motives will soon be his downfall.........patriotic, tax paying Americans are taking note.

If only someone would listen to the American people that they are not happy with the direction we are going and call it now Obamanization. He is so busy on tv and putting fear into the citizens and leading by intimidation that I think he is more like the President of Venezuela then the United States of America

Rene is clueless. Sarah Palin doesn't have a notion about how to solve anything, including how to raise children. For Rene to make such a dumb, dumber and dumbest remark that Obama can make a good speech and nothing else is so lame. Barack Obama will be President for eight years and Rene can like it or lump it. Sarah Palin will be Head Moose when the elections roll around again and won't be a candidate for anything else.

Obviously no sane persons were going to vote like a senile old geezer like McCain. But with the sexy but religious Sarah by his side McCain got the votes of 50 million crazies.

"McCain: People Voted 'Mostly for Sarah Palin' Last Year"
REALLY??? I do believe, Senator McCain, Palin was the reason you lost.
That and Obama has "it" and you didn't.

@Joyce Warren – there is no way in heck that the Republicans would have won with Palin at the helm. The only wacks that voted for the ticket because of her are the evangelical rednecks. If the Republican party continues to pander to these nuts, they are sealing their doom.

After Obama's showing of a complete lack of understanding the economy and his 3 trillion dollar budget that puts us even deeper in debt, Dems wont be in control for long. Thank you Barack for making it easier for Republicans to get elected. Can't wait for 2010

That Sarah girl lost the election for McCain. She is an idiot!

By the way, baby momma is doing just fine without baby daddy!

what a lot of people on the other side don't understand is that conservatives were not excited about McCain at all. Then, Sarah Palin came along, and all of a sudden the ticket had what conservatives were looking for : Someone that met their definition of pro-life, pro-family, pro-faith. You can bash her all you want, but when John McCain says that most of the Republican votes cast were for her, that's what he means. John McCain was not a particularly strong candidate. Beyond that, a lot of these comments are off-point and not particularly relevant.

The election is over, yes...someone let Obama know so he can stop talking like he's campaigning still.

Oh goodness–go away American bimbo. I wonder what her IQ is? In the endgame, she killed the McCain Presidential campaign.

Hey Denise, we already had the lying duo as Prez and VP, it was called Bush/Cheney.

I for one love "Palin" when she did the speech @ the RNC convention I chg my vote to Ron Paul immediately. Women where energize with her at first because of HRC and that's it......but didn't see the fall coming to John McCain. We did the right thing..We rejected Palin's clueless brain over Beauty!

The title of the article should have been, "Old man yells at clouds". Palin is a complete joke, nothing more to be said there. While I orginally thought McCain a patriot, he's is just another typical rich, repub, entitled, daddies boy that accomplished nothing other than crashing a bunch of jets while flying around the US to pick up his current main squeeze.

I am still amazed that some pople have not figured out that Palin is just stupid. The only reason I can think of for this non-awakening is that they must be dumber than Palin.

Of course, McCain doesn't want "businesses" like AIG to be regulated.
His original campaign manager was Phil Gramm.
Just google Phil Gramm and his wife. They were both involved in the Deregulation that led to the mess we are in now.

Pathetic.

Man, this is almost sickening! The republicans are pathetic! They are the most un American group of yah-oos I have EVER seen. They are TRAITORS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you people would do some research for yourself instead of just accepting everything you hear on CNN you would be much better informed. Do your OWN research about Governor Palin and her actual record in Alaska. Think for yourself, read/hear her words for yourself. Get facts!

Rene March 26th, 2009 5:15 pm ET
I voted for Sarah Palin and will again. Obama is a great speaker and that is it. He is clueless on how to run this country and we will all pay the price for his ignorance.

Rene, with all do respect, your ignorance is really out of bound. I can't find anyone that can't agree with me on the fact that Obama is way way smarter than Palin. Can you imagine how clueless we all would be as a people with having Palin as our leader, given your ignorance that Obama is clueless? Your logic is not just sensible. Go check if you have any head injury before it is too late like Natasha Richardson. If there is a genetic disorder in your head, consider a head transplant.

Poor, deluded people. Who will these fools vote for in 2012-Joe the fraudulent Plumber? The GOP is in DEEP TROUBLE!

I know a lot of Republicans that left the party over Palin. I think more people are moderate than extreme right but the GOP can continue down whatever road of destruction they want.

Take the comment with a grain of salt by keeping in mind that he is EXTREMELY snyde. I don't think for a second that he was at all serious. I think it was, in his wierd little munchkin way, his way of acknowledging that she killed his dream.

As a member of the infamous Keating Five, which was intimately involved in the Savings and Loan scandal of the 1980s, John McCain should have some good ideas about regulation of the financial industry.

All,

It was emotional election, I have to say I have respect for John McCain as a patriot and man of honor. But you dont have to share that.
I voted for him, but as much equally against Obama. As many of you voted against Bush or even against Palin.

Now we all need to stop firing over the top of our trenches in a reactionary way, you won, OK he is our president now, but that does not buy a blind support of extremist policies. It is extemeism that does the damage you cant correct.

Calmly, I ask you to answer if you really support a punitive tax code, a card check system, a trillion dollar annual debt to support programs that like cap and trade, a civil defense force, reducung the deduction on charitable giving while adding millions of tax dollars to set up mandatory volunteer organizations reliant on the govt to teach their message.

Does it make sense that he says we as Americans have 2 sophmoric choices, blindly support his budget or do nothing. We are all smarter than that.

He works for us, all of us, and all of us can and should be able to question and disagree with few or many individual policies without risk of being painted as obstructionists do nothings.

As an example I am a pro choice Republican, and all us need to start arguing the issues with rational thinking by not attacking but discussing. Otherwise there is no hope for any of us.

Funny John McCain......many people who would have voted for you decided they either would not vote at all or vote for Obama when Palin came on the ticket. They are intellectual, intelligent people who were offended by the choice of a woman who had no qualifications for the job. All she had was the gift of showbizz she acquired as a "beauty queen" twenty five years ago. Her expertise in politics was overshadowed by her ignorance in general issues. She comes from a remote, backwards state that would not know the difference between a roach and an eagle. You thought putting a woman on the ticket would really help you !..,Well, you picked the wrong woman.

Sarah Palin is counting on the extreme right wing fundamentalist religious "End of Days" voters and also on Rush Limbaugh's ditto-heads. No one else will vote for her and for good reason.

Why is McCain "nervous" about the FDIC plan?
He doesn't even understand it.
Someone told him he should be nervous.
So, he told the news that he's nervous.
Please, someone, ask him to specifiy what he's nervous about.
Ask any one of the Republicans to specify what they're "nervous" about and see if any of them can articulate a coherant opinion on the state of the financial system.

McCain blew his cover during the election. We all know that he doesn't understand much about economics. So, why would any of us trust his "nervousness" now?

Palin cost you the election her pick showed lack of judgment.

You got what you wanted, ameriDUH, a jugheaded empty suit who is a puppet for someone.

Sarah Palin did not cost McCain the campaign. This campaign was won by a man who was and is totally unqualified to president of anything, much less the USA. He won because of the delusion of so many people who thought that he was something that he wasn't, thanks mainly to the sad state of the press in this country. As a black person, I wish that black people could have waited to get the right black as president. As a Christian, I wish that Christians had more discernment and conviction and not fall for the world's hype. As a mother of adopted children, I wish that more people in this country cared about the life of unborn children. As a wife married to a white man, I wish more white people could have seen through this black man's hatred of whites, his bigotry, his anger and rage, along with that of his wife. So many people will rue the day this man became president. You people can say all you want to about Palin, Bush, and whomever else. But the truth of the matter is that none of them are president, and we are left with a man, and his VP, who have no clue, and we are all in danger. When a nation rejects the true God of heaven and decides that some man, any man, is their god, it is not good. Judgment will surely come. By the way, why can't you democrats ever engage in a discourse without being rude, insulting, angry, and just over-the-top livid?

McCain would have been a great president..and he would have won if it wasn't for Palin. I just think that this was not the time to give President Obama his first real executive role in government. Anyway, I did vote for McCain but I will support Obama and if he can get us out of this economic climate he deserves a lot of credit. Also, I'm tired of everyone putting down Bush, you can not determine whether or not a president was sufficient or not until atleast 10-15 years after they have been out of office.

Please please make these people go away! They LOST the election. Stop reporting on them. We don't care.

It's sad that you, democrats, feel the need to continue to bash McCain, but yet, have no harsh words for your idiot leader.

You know that Palin looks real good after 60 days of Joe Biden. The guy is an idiot.

It's still sad to see Grandpa McCain having to shill for Rapture Barbie; given McCain's seedy history with the S&L scandal, he knows whereof he speaks with regard to banking failure. And Apocalypse Spice sure does know a lot about pork, government waste, and shredding the Constitution. Maybe the Gangrenous Old Party could run a flipped ticket in 2012: wheel out VP choice John "Saigon Rose" McCain and Der Furrier Sarah Youbetcha as "fiscal conservatives" and "Old Testament-style Christians." Nice.

It is very funny to see all these folks saying what a drag Palin was on the McCain ticket. Most of these folks are the very same ones who told us Obama was going to be the greatest president ever. How's that working out for you now? Sorry folks but your credibilty is shot!

If John Mc Cain believes that, then he truly should not have been elected President. Many people didn't vote for HIM because of Governor Barbie, they were frightened to death that he might die in office and we would end up with this ditzy woman as president. What happened to John McCain and his thinking processes? I think he should check in with Megan more frequently.

I'll never vote for a lady!!

If the Dems are so clueless.....Where are the Repubs ideas ? Oh thats right they dont have any

What the hell is "Overseas Global Contingency?"

McCain basically contridicted himself and said nothing.
He doesn't want to take action but then said yes we should.
Republican, we cannot take anymore or THEIR action.
We have already had enough that got us into this mess.
I like McCain, but he has really lost his way from his ORIGINAL principles.
Just , well, Crap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gingrich in 2012!

Todd on Cape Cod,
First, there hasn't been a popular vote "landslide" in many, many years. Second, I agree that Sarah energizes the uber-conservatives and that's fine, Rush Limbaugh energizes a large radio audience, too, but Rush's entire audience (somewhere between 14 and 25 million with about 8% of that number being non-citizens – no exact figures are available) isn't enough people to elect a president. About 128 million people voted in 2008 and Obama won by almost 10 million. And, remind me who's a "whackjob" when a couple years from now, you and your family have decent affordable healthcare, we aren't fighting some hideous war for oil somewhere and the heads of large corporations no longer make 250 times as much as you...

McCain showed his true self when he put her on the ticket. All the "County First" stuff was a load of crap. It was "McCain First". He risked leaving the country in the hands of a complete moron and her sleazeball husband in order to get a shot at the White House. He would have risked it, he would have risked saddling all of us with a total incompetent in the White House. Can you imagine her dealing with other heads of state, she can't even complete a sentence that makes any sense at all. He came very close to putting us all in a very , very bad place. And what's really funny, ha ha ha, is that she and the first dude actually thought they had a shot at the whole enchilada....

Palin was pathetic. She was used by McCain. McCain, you knew better that you were using her to get votes from Hillary Clinton's supporter and from ALL racist conservatives. Knowing what you were doing, you lied to all Americans that you picked Palin for her experience. You really were a semi-professional liar because your lies were so flimsy.

It's amazing that Sarah Palin could not give not mention one book or magazine that she read in the past year. She looked totally ridiculous during several interviews and it was always the medias fault. Hopefully if she decides to run again she'll spend a little time in the library.

One of the scariest remarks on this comment board was from someone who said that they voted for Palin and will again. Folks who think like that without seeing who else is even CONSIDERING running have some serious blinders on.

I hope Palin DOES get the Republican nomination in 2012...I'd love to see her trying to go up against Barack in a debate. =)

Palin lost this election for McCain. Isn't that pretty obvious. McCain would have won with a real running mate.

I'm not surprised about Senator McCain's unguided comment that: "And these consequences we are seeing now in full display"

Senator McCain is obviously still very bitter that he got "whupped" badly in the general election by a mere "Junior Senator" and he knows that ambition he's always had to be president is as good as dead now. Well, think about it, McCain can try and see Obama as his son who has set out to do great things for the Country. Let the people judge for themselves, or does this McCain guy really think people ain't smart enough to figure all these things out?

McCain needs to stop bad-mouthing every single effort; afterall, he had his chance to correct most of the problems being fixed all these years. All of a sudden, he got beaten and he thinks he needs to bite back, c'mmon McCain. Show a good sportsman spirit; or you'll risk losing your Arizona seat.

If you believe that people voted for Sarah Palin instead of you, you probably need to move up to Alaska where you can vote for her again. Palin was your down fall, your major reason for losing.

Rene, you just showed to the world your own ignorance. Wow...

If Palin couldnt control her own immoral daughter then how on God's green earth would she have controlled the Iranian or North Korean president.

Comments like "Most people hate Palin – how can you not, she's an idiot" strike me as really strange. Why would you hate someone for being an idiot? Disagree with a candidates policies – fine. But hate them? Are democrats afraid of putting a women in a position of power?

Wow its good to see some people that can see through obama's good looks and slick talking skills.

I love it! Obama is clueless how to run the country but a know-next-to-nothing ideologue who disdains science and thinks God put us in Iraq is who we need to lead this country????

And the right wing wonders why everyone on the left and in the center doesn't agree with them. No ideas, no solutions, just rhetoric of the worst kind. No wonder this country is in the mess it is in. Yeah, let's trust the guys who work for the corporate interests to make things right.

I've voted Democrat since I've been able to vote, but the combined rhetorical dishonesty and Chicago thuggery of Obanus changed my outlook for good.

Although I did hope they would end this war – too bad they decided to send even more troops over. Fool me once...I don't think so. I didn't vote for this crap, and won't ever again.

All Of you narrow minded Democrats are ignorant and blinded by the new "president's" charisma. Open your eyes and see that we have(as a country) voted in a leader that will do no more that make our country much weaker through the desicration of our military. It has already begun. This ignorant fool is sending 17,000 more troops to this war on terror and has extended the stay there from 12 to 19 months for each soldier. He has also neglected to provide the military with sufficient funding and resources for this new push. He is simply giving us more of the same and trying to tell us that it is different.

Denise,
we are much better off with the lying duo we have now, huh?
OMG

Palin is why I didn't vote for McCain.

I voted against Obama. Unlike the rest of the idiots on this site, I realized he would wreck this economy. Now we have a black President acting just like his black constituency.

We are in an economic mess because the bleeding heart libs thought every black welfare case deserved a $500k loan on a house. Of course, these folks were incapable of holding a job long enough to pay-off the debts they incurred. Freddie and Fanny collapsed the system and the house of cards set up by the bleeding hearts began to destroy our economy. Now Barack Obama is running up a national debt that we are unable to afford, just like his affirmative action constituents.

re
It takes one to know one.

who cares. you both lost. now go sit down.

Anyone who voted for Palin should be shot to help improve mankind. Seriously.

It's 2009. Enough religious ignorance. We want books, we want education, we want intelligence in the white house. Obama is not perfect, but he's great compared to these two. I love how idiot republicans are actually blaming Obama for the financial crisis and not being able to fix it in 2 MONTHS. ...and we wonder why terrorists want to kill us. We're ignorant, selfish, and thoughtless people. I think it's hilarious. So does the rest of the world.

Mr. Chairman, delegates, and fellow citizens, I will be honored to accept your nomination for president of the United States.

Nice of McCain to admit it. Kinda late though.

Obama has turned out so bad, and if he continues to be in over his head the GOP is gonna have 20 candidates in the primary and the Dems will challenge him.

How about if Clinton turns on him to whoop him in 2012?

Then McCain should have put her on top of the ticket. Maybe he would've won ( sarcasm)

He forgot to mention how she "energized" those moderates and idependents who decided to cast a vote for Obama BECAUSE of her. He knows she was one of the major reasons he lost the election, but ok, he' being a gentleman....

During a campaign stop right before the election, Palin said that our economy just needed "some shakin' up and some fixin'". What?!?! THANK GOD she and John didn't get elected to higher office.

Personally, I would love to see Palin try again just to hear you spineless liberal Cry! Cry! Cry!

The Pure Hatred yall have towards McCain/Palin amazes me. But when I say truthful things about obama, then I'm told I'm full of hatred. I just Hope and Pray that obama does not Totally Destroy this country like he is trying. Hell he didn't even know he signed the bill that authorized the bonuses for AIG, what kind of man is that, didn't even know what he signed. What else will he sign without reading it, then get mad because it became law. I'm scared to death that this man is going to Destroy what millions of men and women died to protect.

It's a travesty that "Palin" and "President" are even uttered together. And McCain just needs to shut the hell up. He has been all for deregulation and still doesn't want companies that the American taxpayers own 80% of to have any say in what they do. I'll bet if he didn't marry money and had to work for crumbs like the rest of us, he'd sing a lot different tune. For someone who is where he is because of who he married has NO CREDIBILITY! Take away Cindy, her family fortune/influence, great-grandfather, grandfather and father (military men) and what do you have? A war vet who didn't win a war and lived only because his captors didn't take his life. He's no hero.

Scary. Sarah as Prez???? holy shackels!

Actually, most people voted for neither of you. They voted for Obama.
Funny thing is McCain, your 'base' would've never voted for Obama anyway.
You actually had a chance if you had run with anybody BUT Sarah Palin.
Remember the exit polls, and the last bit of polling before the election.
People stated they would not vote for you because of the ineptitude of Sarah Palin. The Republican base just isn't big enough to win presidential elections.
"....And there was that media slant this go round," she said. "And unless things change, the GOP had really better can stand together, 'cause we got that on the battlefield also...."
That couldn't be part of it, could it? A basic grasp of grammar is a good thing.

he still hasn't figured it out

Here we go, slam Palin around some more. While you're at it, why not take a few more cheap shots at her family. Have any of you geniuses ever done any real thinking or do you just let certain media talking heads form your opinions? Get a life! The election is over.

Palin and the rest of the good old boys can not win against Obama. The GOP needs a new face. I'd like to see Paul Ryan name in the hat for prez!!!

Voting for McCain and Palin would have been a mistake. They have shown their colors: complaining about Obama's decisions without offering any suggestions except lower taxes or lamenting that the press is unfair.

Mr. McCain has particularly shown that he is nothing more than a petulant child; upset that he lost the game so he has to vilify his adversary. This is the man that the press has hailed as an American hero? I think not.

palin is great! why are you so worried?

McCain would have been a much better choice that the showboat socialist we got saddled with. Palin was and is 10 times smarter than either Obama or Biden. Neither are qualified to run a sno-cone stand.

let's get rid of the conservatives for ALL elections, after all W said he was a compasionate conservative and where did that take us????,,,not jindi or pilin (louisiana and alaska). for that matter. as for the evangelicals......NO COMMENT NEEDED..........

Anyone who thinks this unqualified candidate in Palin actually helped this demented old man is so far out of touch with reality that they can go ahead and vote for her in 2012 thinking she can actually win. Please, go ahead.

Hysterically funny.

Gosh! You left-wing socialists need to get a life. McCain made a joke and you'll take it all so serious. By the way, there were millions of Americans who DID NOT vote for Mr. Obama. Could that many be wrong? Doubt it!

Liberals are extremely happy with Sarah Palin. McCain would likely have lost with any running mate, but an intellectual dipstick like Palin sealed Obama's victory.

Liberals duly wish Sarah Palin is the nominee of the Republicans in the future.

In 4 years, McCain and Palin will look pretty good.

The american people and all their kids and grandchildren will be paying for what this new left-wing whacko president is proposing. I hope and pray that it is Obama's nutty followers and their families that feel the wrath and pain that he is unleashing – probably not since most are on welfare, don't want to work, and want the government take care of them. He is taking us straight to hell...

I think he meant to say was that the people voted mostly against Palin, not for Palin – that's more like it!

Glory,Glory, Hallelujah,I don,t know how all this will workout with Obama? But with McCain-Palin It could have been disastrous. Mrs. Palin is a very Beautifull Woman But Brains she has none . And if Mr. McCain can,t look another man in the face during a debate How would he Stand up and say READ MY LIPPS, MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT. And like Mr Chaney Said SO .All my Republic are still crying about losing the election. Time will tell, If Obamas plan does work They will still be crying . Lets all try and it will work.

Senator McCain;

The people didn't vote for your ticket because it is time to turn this nation around from fiscal mess & the military quagmire Bush & the GOP got us into. Another word, it was time to change the whole management because team USA got clobbered & marooned in a world in constant change.

Haha, okay Mr. McCain. Please let Sarah Palin be the GOP front runner. By all means keep her there.

That will guarentee another Democratic victory in 2012!

It's funny how some conservatives consider McCain a poser to their cause, yet The (White) Heritage Foundation is certainly glad to work with him!

She cost him votes. Romney, especially in light of the financial crisis, would have been his best choice.

I dunno what you guys were doing

COLBERT '08!

You know, I used to think the extreme right was extremely mean, but after reading the comments posted after mine, I see many of the same qualities on the left. Does Rush freelance for you guys?!

Is McCain trying to PROVE how grateful the nation should be that he is
not in charge? Or is he afraid Sarah Barracuda will sic the crowds of
fundamentalists on him as she tried to do on President Obama
in the campaign?
Let him take a look at the recent picture of her 'stunned' at the
opposition demonstration to her when she finally turned up
in Juneau at the capital.

Got to admit, Palin is the reason that instead of you having my vote, I flipped a coin at the booth.

Well.......if that were the case.....................then she would lose to President Obama pretty handidly in 20012 ???? I think that she would be out of consideration for the Republican Nomination. We can only hope that they find a more Moderate Candidate.

If Palin is "energizing" the conservative base it's because their repressed sexual desire and not because of her intellect and experience.

She could not put a complete thought into words.

I want someone who is articulate, not just a good ol' girl, hockey mom.

A few months ago we got rid of a good ol' boy from down south. What a fine mess he left us in.

Obama was elected because he spoke of hope and stayed positive throughout the campaign while the Republicans could only do the opposite.

Again McCain is a gentleman and modest too!!. He is being kind to sillY Sarah.

Somebody has to regulate, thats why we have Government and elected president and congress.
We don't want to have some Corporate CEO's to run the country the way it was run for last 8 years.

Cool. McCain is a gentleman and modest too!!. He is being kind to sillY Sarah.

No – John – most of the country voted against you! That's why you lost. Get over it.

"She has and continues to energize the conservatives" and you point is? Never did find out anything positive the conservatives ever accomplished – all talk – no action.

McCain 2000 would have been better than Bush. McCain 2008 bragged how little he knew about the economy and picked Palin without vetting her very well... lack of judgment.

You never see even the most rabid anti-President Obama posters wishing McCain/Palin had won.

I think McCain is better on the side lines instead of the presidency at

his age. Because his heart wouldn't have lasted trying to get us out of

this mess.

P.S. The whole time him and Palin were campaigning they didn't

have a plan and it showed. The GOP have been pressured to come

up with something. It's about time. How Pathetic!

Obviously the world felt Palin had nothing to offer that would benefit the current world conditions. Those that voted for her probably actually thought Obama was a terrorist.

I just don't understand the comment McCain makes. He is nervous about expanding government oversight but aware that things need to change. What exactly does he think we should do?

Also I wonder what consequences he thinks we are seeing from the new administration? It is too early for the stimulus to have taken effect; however, housing, banking and manufacturing seem to be moving in a more positive direction. We may be in a bear rally in the stock market but most of the really has been in response to moves made by the administration.

I identify with many of the Republican ideals however I find my self at a loss as to know what they want to do about the problems we face today. It just seems that they are all nervous and unsure.

My understanding is that Regan was an optimist but the Republicans of the 21st century certainly feel like they are afraid and they want us to be as well. It seems like Republicans are afraid of terrorists, afraid of government oversight, afraid of market interference. If the Republican Party would like to make a comeback I really think that they need a message of inspiration, hope and action. Not fear, doubt and filibusters.

I would have voted for McCain anyways as a liberal who just get fed up with tthe hypocrisy, corruption (see Chicago, Phila, KCity, St Loius, New Orleans , etc) duplicity and 'I know better than the average person what to do' attitude of Democrats. Yeah, there are great & good Dems, just as there still are some decent/good reporters at the NYT.

But Palin secured the vote. Why? Because the Dems were so terrified of her that they resorted to breaking into her e-mail accounts and essentially made-up & spread stories about her (speaking in tongues, banning books) ,.... And why were they terrified of her? Not her policies because in Alaske – a left of center state, she governed as a pragmatist not an ideologue which the Dems and their media partners effectively painted her as. She is authentic. She risked her career to take on real entrenched corruption in her own party as well as with Dems.

Where was Cronkite Award winner Couric to take on real powerful corruption at great personal risk like this? Oh that is right, she sits in cosy NYC playing media politics to try to save her fading star. The Dems just play a more effective game of slime typically than Republicans (I know, I have seen it and am aware of it first hand). And from Sept 12 2008 on, despite the blatant media cheerleading for candidate now Prez44, when the equity markets started to seriously tank along with money market freeze ups, the game was over before it began for McCain. Which is not to say he ran a great campaign. Obama did run a better campaign.

I doubt 99.9% of the posters here could ever match up to the integrity & honor of McCain (I certainly cannot).

But go ahead Dem hacks & DailyKos/HuffPo/Dem Underground operatives who love to overwhelm news blogs with voluminous comments to try and 'shape' public opinion. Vent your nonsense amongst your own Kool-Aid drinking crew.. Go express your rage at the AIG bonuses after Fannie Mae and FreddioeMc kept theirs. Conveniently ignore Rahm & FannieMae, Franklin Raines, Johnson, Gorelick, Cisneros, Cuomo, Dodd, Countrywide – just as Time magazine did. Anyone who just scans the WSJ & Barrons from 1999 to Summer 2008 can see the unfolding of the most predicted crisis ever (no one knew its magnitude because there were so many new variables). But is starts mainly in 1999, Cisneros, Countrywide, FannieMae & FreddieMc .... the rest are dominoes in the chain.

Sarah Palin not worth talking about. John McCain still a joke,say one thing and the next second he say something different. Has anyone ever notice how much John McCain look like Nikita Khrushchev. Check it out. These two people are like the BEVERLY HILLBILLYS, they thought the civil war was still going on. John & Sarah the election is OVER.

Half voted for Palin, the other half voted against Obama. McCain was a JOKE.

John, you have lost more votes because of Sarah Palin.

"They both ran a dirty, nasty, hatefilled, klan like campaign and she is a complete moron and he proved once and for all that he lacks character and morals! I am extremely grateful these two nasty pieces of work didn't get elected!!!!!!!!"

The only thing "klan-like" is the attitude towards Ms. Palin on this board. McCain dared run against a black guy, so I guess he's a klansmen.

I love how CNN does this: they run a "news article" to attack Palin, have everyone state their hatred of her, and then run back to BO's nourishing teat.

For those of you who can read, I recommend 1984. There is a part where everyone is told how much they should hate the enemy, and everyone throws a possessed-fit about how much they hate the enemy, only to be comforted by the screen announcing: B....B....B...B (for Big Brother). Replace that with B...O....B....O and it's the United States today.

When all of you starve to death rather than work, good riddance. May your genes be removed from the gene pool. Capitalism will return at last.

Sigh, sounds like his statement was made in jest. Look at these comments... what is wrong with people?

The idea that Obama/Biden and McCain/Palin were the best each party had to offer is beyond pathetic.

"clueless pathological liar", "idiot", "mcschizo", "lying duo", "schizophrenic"

These are just some of the things posted on here describing McCain and Palin. This coming from those who are upset with the hate filled campaign of McCain/Palin.

Are you honestly joking? Can you not see the hypicricy? What is wrong with you people.

Hello pot, this is kettle.

Although a registered Democrat, I voted for John McCain, the candidate with experience. When John shifted far away from the political center by picking Palin and then apparently losing his focus by suspending his campaign briefly, he lost much of my confidence. Of the two, he still was the only qualified candidate but I really wish we had a choice in the political center.

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No Senator, but if we wait we might see what the consequences are. Former President George W. Bush didn't mess this country up this bad in just two months, so why should Obama be expected to fix it this quick?

I voted for Sarah Palin and will again. Obama is a great speaker and that is it. He is clueless on how to run this country and we will all pay the price for his ignorance.

Mccain is correct, Sarah would have won if it were her for president.
The republicans just did not have a good runner. No one was really
comfortable with McCain because he is for who ever he is with.

CNN is like Bagdad Bob report and say real good for who you like –
and cut down as much as you can of people who disagrees with you
CNN uses their broadcasting for personal broadcasting

If President Bush had done or said 1/10th of what Obama has
done and said CNN – CBS- NBC-all would have a special on everything every night, but boy we don't hear anything but wonderful wonderful about the now president. There really is a judgement day just up ahead. be sure your sins will find you out. Only with our Saviour it is a righteous judgement that no man or TV network can buy out of or tell it their way out, it will be all true judgement
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the obamanazis are out in force .....

To the Sale Out Democrats, You are the minority that is still treading water like your still in the dark ages of Mississippi Burning, you poor things. Life is too Short to live that way. Obama was and is the better person to be President. You can't think that the people would have allowed McCain and Palin to run our Country. That would have been the worst thing that could have happen, just thank God it didn't.

IS IT 2012 YET?

re...most people "hate" her? have you seen her state poll numbers? people love her up there. stop the lies. i hope she's president in 2012.

then those people are mostly stupid.

'insult insult insult'............'some statement that I didn't research'...... 'another insult'......... 'my opinion stated as fact'.......... 'another insult'......... 'terrifying adjective'........... 'something I would never say in public, but think I'm really smart saying it here'....... 'one final insult'........
Can I be part of the conversation now too?

I think John McCain is a double timer, one day he is a moderate Republican and working with the democrats to get things done in the senate, the next day he is 100% against them and refusing to even bargain with them on anything and instead he chooses to just say no. I am so disappointed in the Republican party, and am proud to say I have no party preference, I don't let titles or emotion dictate who I vote for, instead I use logic.

CNN are obviously a bunch of liberals with strong left bias on their news reporting. I certainly could not expect you to report anything rational about Sarah Palin. CNN, you need to get out of fantasy land.

TODDONCAPECOD, You got it right. The left wing liberal bed wetters are scared to death of Sarah Palin. I look forward to the mid term elections when she will be out raising money for Republican Senators and Congressmen/women and we retake the congress or I should say replace 20-25 demorats. Then two short years later the White House will be in Republican hands. bamby seems to be putting on weight while the rest of the country is getting thinner. It must be those Wednesday night $100.00 a pound steaks for him and his butt kissers.

If that is true................very scary thought

Good luck all you Obama heads. The man is a train wreck.
Might be very book smart but doesn't have much common
sense. Let's have some more Stevie Wonder and Earth
Wind and Fire Wednesday's in the White House, lol. Total
moron.

Hey, let's not put all the blame on Sarah. McCain did say the economy was strong, his boy said we were a bunch of whinners and he stopped the campaign to go help do nothing with the original bailout.

To the Sale Out Democrats, You are the minority that is still tredding water like your still in the dark ages of Mississippi Burning you poor things. Life is too Short to live that way. Obama was and is the better person to be President. You can't think that the people would have allowed McCain and Palin to run our Country. That would have been the worst thing that could have happen, just thank God it didn't.

And all of you think the current administration is doing a good job? i think YOU guys need to get your head examined. global currency? tax frauds? liars? cheats? now that's something to "believe" in. I hope Obama fails.

And the FEAR of Sara continues!

Seems to me John was dead in the water until Sarah came along. She was pulling 10 and 12 thousand people to see and hear her all across this nation. I can only think the left is doing their level best to make her out to be other than she is-why? Answer: Because she is the best and they know it.

I voted for McCain, but more so it was a vote AGAINST Obama than it was FOR McCain.

While I am happy Obama won, I did vote for John McCain–not for Sarah Palin. I did so to thank him for his years of service to this country, and to apologize to him for what happened to him in South Carolina back in 2000. With Palin (Quayle in a skirt) on the ticket, I knew he didn't stand a snowball's chance of winning (shoulda let him pick Lindsey Graham or even Joe Lieberman, Mr. Rove), so I didn't feel like I was wasting my vote on him. Continue to be man you were before you got that GOP nod, Mr. McCain, and you will have my continued respect. You shoulda had the job back in 2000.

What is it with you Democrats and your obscene hatred? You don't even know how to win an election with dignity. You come on here and post hate filled, partisan banter when not that long ago you were bashing Republicans for exactly the same kind of thing.
Do yourself a favor. Look in the mirror and scream the word "hypocrite." That is exactly what you are. Can't you even agree with the man you elected and "come together" as a country and move beyond the past, wish for hope, and try to reconcile?
I guess not. That is why I will always vote Republican. Not because they're better on anything, but because of voters like you people who have no common sense, no sense of respect for the opposing party, and have a sense of entitlement that the world owes you something. I also have a big problem with your "I'm always right and you're always wrong" attitude. The way Obama is reaching across the aisle to Republicans they might as well do whatever they can to do exactly the opposite of what he wants because he is not taking any of their recommendations or considerations into account.
Don't worry though, what comes around goes around. Don't think we'll have a Democratic President forever. If Obama's lofty goals are not met you might be staring at a one term President right now.
Good luck with your agenda, and the billions of dollars it will cost average taxpayers to fund (you don't honestly think his "tax the rich Robin Hood agenda" is not going to trickle down to the common man do you?)

The American people have spoken, and they elected their beloved BO. Let them get what they deserve. Many are mindless, lazy, or looking for free rides from the backs of the rich. If you are the rich (i.e. work hard at all in your life), it might be time to shrug. Don't help anyone but yourself, let the lazy starve.

More transparency...kind of like Keating Five huh Senator McCain?? Every one goes on and on about taxes owing by some of Obama's selections, but no one points out the error of Senator McCain's. Now which is worse – messing up taxes or deliberate fraud involving other peoples savings???

I know it's another case of "woulda, shoulda, coulda", but I truly believe that McCain would be President today if only more people had voted for him.

Actually, most people voted AGAINST Palin.

Man, maybe I should have voted McCain, Obama has done a horrible job so far, I remember studying Scocialism in school, I guess it is his new government, any President that is putting Billionaires over Military rights and medical attention is a huge failure to me, I am not saying Palin and McCain would be a better choice, but it is hard to see that they could be doing any worse a job then this guy. I appoligze to everyone reading this, for the fact that I help put this man in office, a mistake I will not make again, shame on me, and everyother voter. But, mostly shame on Obama

What a load...just trying to set her up for a win down the road. Palin is one of the biggest jokes in our government.

Is he INSANE or was he joking re Palin?? As far as his comments about Obama's efforts to repair the economy and get it up and running again, he's probably come the closest of all those pencil necked republicans in admitting that something had to be done, and Obama is doing it.

American Voter...As a Dem who has never voted Repub, you voted for McCain because he DESERVED the presidency! I'm sorry to hear that because, unfortunately, Obama EARNED the presidency by working twice as hard and proving that he was better qualified. Now, I know you'll be quick to tout his war hero status and etc...I am proud of our kick@$$ veterans, but that's not the only thing that matters.

Oh yes, Palin for President, 2012! The dream of every liberal! Go for it, morons!

No they didn't! With a more credible VP candidate McCain might have won, not that I am not glad he didn't, but Palin was the nail in his coffin.

A few years ago I actually thought he wasn't that bad of a choice for president, if I were to vote for a Republican. By the time the elections came around his appeal had seriously diminished. With Sarah Palin as his running mate there would have been no way in hell I would have even considered it. Everything about her is so wrong it isn't funny, and that doesn't have anything to do with her being a woman.

palin can't do any worse then what Obama is doing

I voted AGAINST Palin.

GOP dream ticket 2012 Palin/Limbaugh! When we have our fill of Palinism? Perhaps the GOP dream ticket 2012 sould be Palin/Bachmann. Both white, female, and neither one has a lick of sense.

suzyku or suzuki whatever it is, i would suggest having your head examined only if you had a brain to begin with.

Let me know how you feel when the tax-man comes. The problem with Socialism is that you eventually run out of someone elses money.

McCain and Palin never did or say anything that should generate the vile comments that are in some of these posts. McCain has always been civil and a gentleman to everyone he encounters. He has the respect of almost everyone he works with in Congress and consistently has shown that he is anything but a "wingnut" including being a cosponsor with Kennedy on an immigration bill.

I don't know what's inside of people like suzyku, but I'm sure it's pretty ugly to look at. It's really kind of sick people. Hope you all get well soon!

John,

Do you really believe people voted for that nicely dressed nitwit someone picked to run with you? A person who carried her child, not like a loving mother, but face away from her so all could see she was a special needs mother and I don't mean mother in a loving sense.

No – People wanted to vote for you, but you forced our hand by offering us a total light weight. As a Independent, I waited to see both tickets and your choice for a running mate was not a serious choice, it was a gimmick. You need to just admit that. And the 5 or 6% of the idiots who want to run her out there to run in 2012 are doing nothing but creating a bigger train wreck for the Republican Party. Just imagine if you will the extra drama she and her family brings on this country in addition to this recession and wars. Just imagine!

I hope that Sarah Palin will run in2012!! I pray for that day. She is the true change we need in this country! She demands accountablility from our government and the media!! unlike Mr. Barry O! who believes that government has the right to control every aspect of our life..it is sickening what has happened in the first 100 days of Barry O's election, this country is going down the toilet thanks to him and all you who voted for him. I suppose the truth that Palin provided was hard for the majority (mostly media) to swallow. Our country is not ready for someone like Palin ... so i suppose we deserve to get what we voted for....communism here we come.....(for those of you who voted for Barry O, you can apologize now to our children)! That is all!

Not surprising that he is very nervous about regulation. The Keating-5 scandal was a maneuvering against regulation

Mention "Palin" and the liberals start to twitch uncontrollably. Immediately after her nomination the polls soared. She scared the heck out of them and the low ad hominem attacks were relentless. The made-up anecdotal nonsense was the jist of it. "Not our kind." The first woman in a position of authority must have attended one of the Seven Sisters.

She's got my backing. She's got guts, and brains, and experience.

"I'm not sure we could have done it without her."

Oh, but you're being too modest...Obama's a born liar, and a product of the Chicago Machine. He can do anything...raise the moon, calm the seas, give 95% of Americans a tax cut...can't he?

I voted for McCain REALLY just because I like Governor Palin. I look forward to voting for her AGAIN in 2012. By that time most people will see what a horrible mistake it was to elect a State Socialist as president.

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I'm an indy voter. I've voted dem recently, but I'm not opposed to voting GOP if they can tell me what they stand for beyond hating the dems. Oh, and by the way, there were plenty of qualified women GOP VP candidates that might have attracted my vote. Guess who wasn't one of them.

Come on 2012 so we can vote again for her.

Gosh, I sure hope that Ms. Palin is the GOP nominee in 2012. That would be fun and probably provide the biggest landslide victory in both popular and electoral college votes in the history of the country. Go Sarah. Keep telling it like it is. Be the GOP candidate, please.

Was there some kind of election, then? I must have missed it...

She may have energized the base, but I think she pushed away a lot of moderate voters. I know many people who weren't all that sold on Obama ended up voting for him because they didn't want Palin. To regain any ground, I think the Republicans need to attract the moderates and independents again, and I just don't see Palin as the candidate to do that.

This shows just how out of touch Sen McCain really is. Even some of my most conservative friends think she's just plain wrong for leading the country, at any level.

I thank the lord each day that we elected Obama. Finally, someone in charge who is intelligent, articulate and capable.

Sara Palin would not be creating this Socialistic Society! You Obama people are simply insane!

He has ruined this country in two months! AIG Bonus' were NOT BONUS it was their income. And if you think we shouldn't pay people for work (whether you think it was a good or poor) then why don't we apply the same standards to Congress or better yet All UNION EMPLOYEES or Government Employess. How would you feel then? Idiots! This man is a joke!

Now we have Rogue Nations coming at us! When are you going to figure out that you MADE a MISTAKE

Dear Senator,

Still obesessed with negetive ideas/ we need a better solution or Options about how to over come this economices crises. please show us if you have one.

Some amazing comments by the Obamabots on this article. I guess you are happy that the Government under your 'dear leader' will be making all of the decisions in your life for you. Rationing of healthcare, your use of energy in your home, etc. etc. You also will love handing over ever more increasing tax dollars that YOU earn to our seriously incompetent Government! But then again – maybe you don't work and feel it is OWED to you. Good luck and have a happy life with your Messiah. The rest of us Thinking folks that believe in liberty and personal freedom are screwed

Sounds like McCain is setting religious nut job Palin up for 2012.
Oh God.

ToddonCapeCod- who are you kidding, "much to the chagrin of those on the left". She is pretty much the worst possible candidate for the Repubs- this is not chagrin from the left, it's pity. We feel SORRY that Palin is the best solution you can come up with.

When someone is searching for a God and they find Satan...

Much to our chagrin? No, we're just concerned that an airhead with zero knowledge of foreign policy, much less anything else would be second in command. She can hardly manage her own family, let alone this country. Read my lips: stupid people do not deserve to run this country. There, I said it.

Reality's a tough pill to swallow for some people.

John, I might have voted for you if you hadn't chosen that empty headed skirt for your partner.

I don't know that Palin helped McCain's ticket. I was on the fence until McCain chose her as his running mate. That was enough to convince me to vote for Obama.

Don't worry. 4 more years on that face and they won't be so enamored.

If most of the people who voted the GOP ticket were voting for Palin on McCain, it's a very scary world in which we live...

"Lauren March 26th, 2009 3:31 pm ET

Actually people voted mostly for Obama, he won the election."

Actually they were talking about the votes he received. I bet you had a bad public school education.

Enjoy the deficits, our increased presence in Afghanistan, the fact that we are still in Iraq and all of the tax cheats that Obama nominates. Hilarious.

I can't believe he said that, why did poeple vote for this guy? I knwo they were asked by Rush Limbaugh.

Most voted for neither of you. The fact that you are saying this at all, Mr. McCain, shows how clueless you really are. Do you have any idea how many votes you lost because of Palin? In the end, it's for the best that you and Ms. Palin lost the election, as a McCain/Palin administration would have made the Bush administration look like a panacea.

Yes, it truly is terrifying to think this duo could have been President and and VP! What even more terrifying is to realize what we actually did get for President and VP.

Not that he had a chance anyway, but he would've recieved more votes withOUT her... most people hate palin- how can you not? she's an idiot

@ToddonCapeCod

so she is running her state into the ground, despite her socialism like tax on energy which is spread out among all alaskans (she is spreading that wealth) .... is that what makes a good conservative? wow.. you guys on the right sure like to rewrite definitions.. lmao

It is not surprising, or interesting, to me that McCain would say that about Palin, as she is very likely to run for President in 2012.

The interesting thing to me was the quote on financial institiution regulation. What I read through the political doublespeak was, "people want regulation, so we should legislate some and get credit for that. But I don't really want regulation, so we shouldn't oversee it once it is put in place. That way, it is as though the regulation doesn't happen, but we've made the people happy."

Hey, either be for regulation, and be willing to enforce it, or don't. Don't insult me with the doublespeak.

@ suzyku
"dirty, nasty, hatefilled, klan like" seems more descriptive of your post than of McCain's campaign. Way to froth, though.

I am a liberal and a democrat but I did vote for John McCain. Sarah Palin made it even easier to make my choice. The reason Sarah helped McCain is she is genuine, and that's all there is to it.

McCain is right about something...we did vote for Sarah and not him. What is funny is to see uninformed people calling people liars...as if the Obama admin is full of honest and upstanding citizens(oops tax evaders and lobbyists). Even funnier is the baseball player getting ready to serve time for misleading congress. Give me a Break!

I was on the fence on who to vote for until he chose Palin as his running mate. She's a nitwit and a bold faced liar! After that I didn't vote for Obama, I voted AGAINST Palin. If he'd gone with Mitt Romney, or someone else with a strong Financial background I would have voted for him in a heartbeat.

Sen McC, 1. Big "O" Won! 2. Jr and Nut didn't DO any thing over 8 yr's! 3. U and your VP'vote was a Joke! Had your team been U/Mitt, all I can say is "Congrats".

Nobody deserves the presidency. You have to earn it !

What trips me out is how democrats or liberals can speak so negatively about people they know nothing about that are American Heroes and then you all claim we're the dirty, nasty, hatefilled people. On the campaign Obama did nothing but dog Bush and claim McCain was a clone and then you all say McCain ran the dirty campaign. You all destroyed Palin when she first came out. Then you all have the audacity to say we're racists and evil and mean. Look in the mirror hypocrites.

To American Voter:
If crashing several fighter jets and being capture by the enemy,and leaving your disabled wife makes and lying nonstop makes you a american hero. Then he is the greatest american hero of all time.

Hey Enlightened Voter, so let me get this straight, you're actually happy we chose an inexperienced, done-nothing, America-hating, socialist, liar with his buffoon, hair plugged, fake-toothed, punch-line of a vice president rather than an old, cranky but experienced American hero and a sitting governor. My guess is that you are either an apologist, unemployed or you don't make nearly enough money to have an educated opinion. Yep that sounds like enlightenment to me...

Obama is the right man at the right time for the job of President. We elected the right guy.

Air-head Palin didn't even know what a Vice-President does and people still voted for her. The whackjobs on the right have no standards whatsoever. Leading our country is a difficult job. Having someone run for office that doesn't even know what that office does is quite a scary thought.

I still can't believe ANYONE voted for a ticket with Sarah Palin. Picking her showed that McCain was not capable of making decisions that were for the good of the country. He rightly deserved not to be elected for that one decision alone.

. I'm not chagrined at all. Current polling has Obama beating Palin by 20 points in 2012.

"I understand that we need some of these institutions to be taken over before they are total failures but I am very nervous about that . . . about the expansion of government oversight," McCain said. "But we have to do a better job of regulation and transparency. The status quo is not acceptable either."

I just wanted to point out that McCain said we don't need oversight, just better regulation. I happen to think that better regulation is the same thing as better oversight, so I'm kind of confused by what he meant

I understand Senator McCain being nervous, but it is now a necessity. AIG and other companies were the eight-legged spider weaving risk to financial institutions. Regulators were asleep at the wheel everywhere. Now these insitutions have failed so badly they maynot come back on their own. I'm nervous too – because if the government can't fix this with late in the game regulation and oversight, our economy may NEVER recover...

We had a choice of bad or worse and we picked worse. Now we have to do all we can to minimize the damage Obama does to our country and our way of life. I hope we can get real conservatives in Congress in 2010 to stop his agenda.

Strange, but where I live most of the people that I knew who originally were going to vote McCain, changed their minds after the Palin VP choice. Especially the women in my wife's office. They seem to have been genuinely offended by her as a choice for VP.

Wrong, over half of the people voted against her, and you for making such a ludicris choice in running mates.

American Voter said: This lifelong Democrat who has never voted Republican even for a dog catcher- did vote for John McCain. I still bellieve that he was an all american hero who deserved the Presidency
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I pray to God that you will not be voting next time. If your ONLY criteria to vote for John McCain is because he was an American hero, and "deserved" to be president. It suggests very strongly that you don't know how to vote. My Uncle Buck was an American hero, fought in Vietnam, with 2 tours of duty. He specifically says that you need more than being a hero to fill the shoes of POTUS.... and John McCain, never have, and never will have what it takes..... and I agree with him.

Sen.McCain,Palin; Obama...EXPERIANCE is what we deserve.
Look where we are at and where we are going with INEXPERIANCE!
Presiden Obama LUVS people talking when good about him and just HATES disagreements. Look at AIG: President past bill (did NOT READ IT) and now, what a miss. If Pres. Bush had done what Pres. has done in his first few weeks, OH MY GOSH!!! Pres. Obama is taking our country down and fast. WAKE UP!!!

You are all wrong. The people voted against George Bush. Most who voted for BO didn't vote for President but for a "ROCK STAR". A rock star does not make a President.

You voted for Mccain, and the Left are the ones that are crazy? Empty suite?...try editor in chief of the Harvard Law Review and Prof. of Constitutional Law at the University of Chicago...yes he is clearly unqualified for the position he now holds.

Yes...you are so right about us being so wound up about how Palin "energizes" you and you are right......we absolutely don't want the you all hanging on the every word of the living embodiment of 'teh St00ped'...who managed to sink Mccain's presidential hopes the minute that idiot picked her for his running mate.

No heaven for fend......don't do that...I don't think I could survive another Obama term....

Even if in gest that was a very gracious comment by McCain. Based on the exstensive exit polling he surely knows that the swing voters in the center gave nervousness regarding Sarah Palin being a heartbeat from the Presidency and her strident pro-life stance as their major reasons for voting Democratic.

I doubt that he could have won even with a more traditional running mate like Mitt Romney, but it certainly would have been a LOT closer.

Nevertheless Sarah is certainly an interesting figure and if she can get herself up to speed on world issues and avoid disasterous interviews like the Katie Couric fiasco she's probably got a place on the national stage.

She's certainly a pleasure to observe!!!

ToddonCapeCod...

In this country, 53% to 47% counts as an electoral landslide. Go back and read some electoral history and see how many elections in the last hundred years have been won by that large a marjority. Not many.

Second, I get really tired of conservatives referring to President Obama as an empty suit and worse. President Obama has fresh ideas, more than one can say for the right wing of the country whose only solution to every problem is "cut taxes".

Finally, as far as I'm concerned, let Sarah Palin energize the conservatives. Better yet, let her be the Republican nominee in 2012. I guess that 53% won't look like so much of a landslide after all.

Brian

@ American Voter: the Presidency isn't a lifetime achievement award that you earn through heroic acts. If it was, we'd be talking about Capt. Chesley Sullenberger 2012 right now. He didn't deserve the Presidency because he didn't have the right ideas or the right delivery. Trying to scare people into voting for him was a shameful act beneath a man of his stature. Trying to convince voters that President Obama called Sarah Palin a pig and wanted to teach kindergarteners to have sex instead of teaching them how to read was beyond sad and pathetic.

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No Senator, but if we wait we might see what the consequences are. Former President George W. Bush didn't mess this country up this bad in just two months, so why should Obama be expected to fix it this quick?

As long as the republicans cling to Big Rush, it won't manner WHAT they do, seems they are determined to remain in the minoriety.

Denise the lying duo?!
I guess the fact and I say fact because it is so, that Obama practically lies every time he opens his mouth to talk about the budget or security is almost always laughable. I say almost because their actually are still people out their that believe his utterly despicable brand of politics oh I mean socialist thought. Please you may like they way he sounds, but just listen or perhaps instead of listen read his transcripts and see for yourself. Look it sounds nice for him to say we are investing in companies, investing is another word for nationalization. Come on open your eyes a little bit. I know it's difficult to for you to believe you might have voted for a socialist......wake up you did. Denise their is still time for YOU to help change this.

First of all if you do the math, MOST PEOPLE VOTED FOR OBAMA. Of course being Republican that probably didn't mean that much to you (just ask Al Gore) Secondly every Republican I spoke to who voted for you sir did so dispite Sarah Palin not because of her. You must face that the three big reasons you lost the race were 1 The econmy, 2. Sarah Palin and 3. The economy.

I would have prefered that you lost because you wanted to stay in Iraq for 10,000 years. Our because you emraced Jerry Falwell. But you lost this race the day you said you did not know much about the economy. I've always loved your honesty sir and given your recent comments about Obama's budget you were telling the truth when you said you didn't know much about the economy.

Sarah Palin continues to energize the conservatives in this country? I guess that's what we get for having such a poor education system.

Most of us voted against Sarah Palin particularly many Republicans who otherwise would have voted for McCain.

The comments here only show why there is such concern for the direction of our country.

I'm sure he is kidding. Palin on the ticket made my choice very easy... "NO WAY!"

Uh.....No, John.
You LOST my vote because of Sarah Palin. The woman is a TRAIN WRECK!

"This lifelong Democrat who has never voted Republican even for a dog catcher- did vote for John McCain. I still bellieve that he was an all american hero who deserved the Presidency"

Yeah but one problem...God didn't want to, LOL!!! Is that simple, by the way, I take that offensive, what do you mean when you say he was an all American Hero who deserved the Presidency?? Either you're being a hypocrite or literally, you just don't care...

I feel sorry for the Senator, I really do. He doesn't deserve this, he deserves better but no offense, he's slow, real slow. I wish I can say good things about his campaign or ideas but...nothing, I can give it you but is nothing. He said American hero more times than economy, he said experience more times than his ideas, etc. I can go on and on, sorry to say but these are the facts...and trust me, if he would have become President, I would bet the "American Hero" will do a whole lot better...(LOL!!!)

What do you expect from a member of the Keating 5? Deregulation is the Republican status quo that caused the Savings & Loan disaster & later the housing crisis (the loopholes created during the S&L scandal are what made the housing crisis possible). Regulation is good; deregulation is what got us into this mess.

McCain is senile apparently.

Who voted for Sarah Palin? She was the reason all of my republican friends voted for Obama. Why are we even going here now? Obama is the president, so get over it.

I can't wait anymore anylonger now Sarah...

My insatiable desire for you is overwhelming – can you pl. tell me when we can do it...

"McCain described himself as 'very nervous' about the Obama administration's proposal for FDIC-like resolution authority over non-bank financial institutions like AIG in order to prevent another near calamity in the global financial system."

So, he would prefer a calamity in the global financial system instead? Didn't we get close enough for the free market talking heads to get it?

Hey Todd, we are not chagrined. We are just confused. A not-too-bright but charismatic ideologue who left a small town $20 million in debt is what you want? Hey, fine with us.

hey "Enlightened Voter".... do you really believe that the fraud in the W.H. is not a clueless pathological liar? He's broken almost every campaign promise that he made. Putting that P.O.S. stimulus bill out and voting on it sight unseen is the most egregious action so far. "Enlightened Voter" (please note the quotation marks), you are truly not enlightened enough to deserve the freedom which you helped to vote away.

@ Toddoncapecod,
Actually Obama won the popular vote overwhelmingly. And most Democrats hope Palin will run for President .
There's your empty suit!
Palin runs the MOST Socialist State in the Union. She takes money that she gets from high taxes on big oil and divides it up and sends it to every Alaskan. Now that's Socialism at it's best.

I think she brought the conservative vote to McCain...he would not have gotten much of it without her. Most conservatives were dead against him...remember those threatening to vote for Hillary instead of him?

The election ultimately was a generational change election. The old guard historically just never has a chance in elections of that nature, regardless of their platform. The Republican party recognized this, and really gave him the "lifetime achievement award" by nominating him...they knew their party didn't have much of a chance.

Senator McCain, who cares now? The election is over. Instead of talking about the past-as the right admonishes Obama not to do everyday-plan for the future-in about twenty four years-maybe.

The thing is the Palin has certain following but not enough to win election so good luck next time.

Personally anyone who voted for either of these wingnuts needs their heads examined! They both ran a dirty, nasty, hatefilled, klan like campaign and she is a complete moron and he proved once and for all that he lacks character and morals! I am extremely grateful these two nasty pieces of work didn't get elected!!!!!!!! I am sincerely hoping that mccain loses in 2010 and that Alaska throws out their idiot Governor!

Enough already. I'm tired of hearing about Palin. Please keep her in Alaska. The only thing Palin energizes is moose burgers. The lady has issues...like her inabliity to know the answers to simple questions. Is this President material? I wouldn't say "you betcha" on that one!

We Dem's don't appreciate Sarah Palin nearly enough, really...I'm not sure we could have done it without her. Thanks again Sarah and please nomintate PALIN FOR PRESIDENT2012!!!...lol

I think that Sara Palin drove more voters into the Obama camp and that it cost McCain the election. Deo Gratias!

ToddonCapeCod, I'm glad Palin energizes the Conservative base. She also deenergizes the majority of Americans who just happen to be Centralists. This is what drives people from your movement. I will admit, the race was close untill McCain had his gaffe. Then the nation began to scrutinize Palin, and collectively thought "Oh my God, this woman would be a John McCain heartbeat away from launch codes!" We made the right choice, much to your chagrin!

I really think that if not for Palin as his running mate that McCain may had a better chance of being the Pres.. But then I also think that if that had happened then the US economy would have gotten even worse, knowing that they seem to not have a better idea or radical plan to arrest the situation other than another tax rebate and refund.

ToddonCapeCod: The Left is quite happy about Palin. Her continued presence on the national scene will ensure Independents and moderate Republicans will flock to the Democratic, Green, and other parties. Unless, of course, the Democrats choose candidates as far to the left as the Republicans are selecting to the right.

Many may have voted for Palin, but many, many more voted against her.

well how closed minded some of you are....I voted for John McCain and a big reason for that was Sarah Palin!!!! Because those of us who are conservative do not agree with your ideals of socialism, big government, and making everyone feel a sense of entitlement because they are a "victim" does not make us stupid.

Well I see Obama doesn't feel the need to look for Bin Laden heck we aren't even in a war on terror...

Hey TODDONCAPECOD,

That's the problem. She only energizes the hardcore Republicans, which is usually white Christians, noone else. OTHER people matter in this country. In case you haven't noticed, the number of minorities and independents have increased. They see her as wicked and hateful...which she is.

Mostly people voted for Palin and she lost!

WRONG!

I did not vote for John McCain BECAUSE of Sarah Palin.

She was not then, and still is not, fit to run this country.

Had the good Senator picked a qualified V.P. candidate, John McCain, not Barack Obama, would have received my vote.

The general statement should be -

A lot of people voted in the 2008 Presidential Election because of Palin. ....majority of them, to the misfortune of the Republicans, voted for the Democrats.

Todd, Palin's ability to energize the far right doesn't upset those of us on the left, it thrills us! Since Palin appeals ot your extreme base, she helps continue the Republican wanderings in the political desert. I'd LOVE to see her as the Repug candidate in 2012. Entertainment AND an easy reelection for President Obama.

I would have voted for you McCain, if you had not selected Sarah Palin as your VP. I believe that she is main reason you lost.

Palin will not see anymore national spotlight. She will continue to be the Govenor of this country's largest state which is fine with the rest of the country. Let her live in peace in the peace and solitude which is Alaska. She can do very little harm where she is. The First Dude would not do very well in the White House without getting per diem.

Although I voted for Obama, I think McCain would have made a great president. His choice of Palin, however, left no doubt in my mind who to vote for.

I voted for Obama because of Palin. She and the rest of the right wing ditto heads scare the crap out of me. Eight years of Cheney was enough. We don't need any more myopic leaders.

Actually, I think we've got the terrifying President and VP. I only hope America wakes up before the damage is permanent. Go McCain!

Denise March 26th, 2009 3:30 pm ET

It's terrifying to think the lying duo could have been Prez and VP!

No kidding! Just imagine what would have happened to the stock market!

Oh Toddie from Cape Coddie, perhaps you didn't realize that when your fair (but incredibly dumb) Sarah joined the Repub ticket, donations for President Obama increased dramatically. So, yes, she's an energizer alright.

Not sure I agree ToddonCapeCod, if McCain ran as a moderate, he might of pulled more away from the Dems than he would of loss from the base.

I know at least the potential of a Palin Presidency is what put me solidly in Obama's camp, though in all fairness, I was leaning that way.

But I don't know a single person who voted for Obama who disliked the more straightforward, moderate McCain. They all across the board loathed Palin. I think there were a lot of other choices for VP that would of made the election closer for McCain.

Please, putting Sarah on the ticket was the proverbial nail in the coffin. If she thinks the media was tough on her then, imagine what they'd be doing to her right about now. I'd bet dollars to donuts she'd be crying at the podium.

Uh, actually, I don't think that's true at all. And it probably underscores not only what a bad decision he made in choosing her as his running mate, but that he still doesn't understand why it was a bad decision. He squandered his credibility and sealed his loss with the selection.

Palin is unfit for national politics, and I don't see her star rising any further than it already has... she's already fading into a fringe element in a marginalized national party.

When it comes to Palin, there is no "chagrin on the left", only relief that the "ditz" wasn't voted into public office, representing the United States, what a fiasco that would have been. Idiots like Palin don't belong in DC, they belong in the deep south, representing rednecks, that's her fan base, the "loons" on the right.

ToddonCapeCod: Look up the numbers. Obama won 52.9% of the the popular votes, while Reagan won 50.7% to Carter's 41% in 1980. Obama won the popular vote by a wider margin than Reagan for the first term. I would call that a landslide. Reagan did win more states than obama however. But clearly if Reagan won by a landslide in 1980, you must consider the 2008 election an even bigger landslide by the numbers

I still since bitterness from the Republican party members over the election that has already happened.

So, let me get this straight.......most republicans voted for Sarsah Palin and not McCain last year? She was the lesser of two evils? No wonder that party is in the toilet. It's run by absolutely the biggest group of stupid inept people in the world!

"I understand that we need some of these institutions to be taken over before they are total failures but I am very nervous about that . . . about the expansion of government oversight,"

Where was this speech when he had to drop everything to vote on the first bank bailout? What a joke...

Palin in 2012.
When thing are in dire state, everyone can use a good laugh.

uhhhh NO. You LOST because of her. She only appeals to ignorant, hateful rednecks, like herself.

Despite what some whackjobs on the Left would have us believe, even though McCain lost to the empty-suit in November (and it was an Electoral College landslide, not an electoral landslide), Sarah Palin on the ticket prevented an even worse defeat for McCain. She has and continues to energize the conservatives in this country, much to the chagrin of the Left
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Sooooo...it was an Electoral College landslide but somehow also NOT an electoral landslide? Her popularity among the arch-conservatives is NOT to our chagrin, we LOVE it! She turns off everyone who isn't on the far far right, just as Dennis Kucinich turns off just about everyone who isn't on the far far left. The difference is, we give Dennis a pat on the head and send him on his way when he runs for President and you guys give Sarah Palin a crown and a million dollars. Go Sarah!

Whether Palin is energizing people or whackjobs are alchemizing prophecies in the minds of "us" (whatever that means), Palin is still an attractive woman running her campaign on an appeal to sex. I don't think many educated Americans take her seriously as a member of the executive branch of U.S. government. Just maybe, a few isolated small town Americans still buy into the politics of their Sunday sermons, but reality is stepping forward in a hurry. The conservatives have successfully ripped off the 3rd world and stuffed plenty of cash into their pockets. I say, take your money and move on. America is moving on. The little guys are back in the focus. The old mantra of "survival of the fittest" may be a biological reference in liberal discourse, but it ironically is a phrase that embodies the conservative performance over the last 20 years. I'm glad that our homeless, disabled, uneducated, hungry, jobless, and even our veterans will start getting the attention they deserve as an American. Thank you President Obama.

McCain what is wrong with you? If you hadn't had SP on your ticket you might have stood a better chance. Do you realize how many people did not vote for you related to SP. You have to have more than the conservaties and SP has a lot of work to do if she ever makes it. I don't mind a woman president but I sure want one that knows what she is doing. Articles like this remind me McCain on why I an my whole republican family did not vote for you. Sara Palin was a heart beat away from Pres and not qualified.

The vote you got were for you as President not SP

Thank You Senator Mccain; I was one of those voters; with no disrespect to your public and military service (I am x-navy), I was voteing more tward a Palin President in 2012, I long for the society that I grew up in. It will take elected officials that hold the constitution in absolute reverance. Thank you for introduceing us to Mrs Palin.

Palin needs to get her own army. Obama has his own army named ACORN.

You hear many say that Sarah Palin, even in defeat, energized the Conservative movement in America.

Few would disagree that it was never Palin's intellect, nor her grasp of foreign policy, or a global perspective that was the cause for this new found rebirth of the Christian Right.

Could it be that that a former bikini pageant queen with a pretty face and folksy slack jaw lingo was enough for the racial and religious bigots of the 'Christian' Right to feel energized?

Look at all of the videos of Palin’s most bigoted supporters on the internet. It’s almost like they’re proud that they are so ignorant; proud that the entire world was laughing at them during the campaign.

Sarah Palin on the ticket made a joke out of what a vp should be -

The worse mistake for McCain was picking her to be a heart beat away from the president.

McCain lost many votes for PICKING PAILIN...

NO DOUBT ABOUT THAT –

McCain is palying a political game now.

Despite what some whackjobs on the Left would have us believe, even though McCain lost to the empty-suit in November (and it was an Electoral College landslide, not an electoral landslide), Sarah Palin on the ticket prevented an even worse defeat for McCain. She has and continues to energize the conservatives in this country, much to the chagrin of the Left
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Keep drinking the koolaid... and dream on..........

ToddonCapeCod
Sarah Palin on the ticket prevented an even worse defeat for McCain. She has and continues to energize the conservatives in this country, much to the chagrin of the Left
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Sarah Palin was chosen to attract the "End of Days" Christians and the Rush ditto-heads, and she did that. Other than that, she appeals to no one with half a brain.

Yeah, Palin does energize the Extreme and Fringe portions of the republican party. In other words xenophobic and uninformed members....Thats what the "chagrin" of the left is about.

So, in saying that most of his votes went to Palin, is he sticking her with his 8 million vote DEFEAT and losing states that had been historically Red since 1964?
Sounds like a man, who like the last leader of his party cannot accept responsibility for his shortcomings. McCain chose her, and his judgment on issues has been suspect since last September when he brought her to the ticket.

Since you are now energized by Palin, Jindal, et. al., please use your new-found strength to stop supporting policies that allow for the unregulated theft of our retirement savings.

This may be the primary cause of the chagrin.

Sounding a little conciliatory, I think. Looks like it finally sunk in that he will never be POTUS. If we're lucky, neither will Palin.

Actually people voted mostly for Obama,

No Way NO TO PALIN!!!!!

Obama – clear message was sent

Palin put life in his campaign, and YES it would have been a blow-out withour her. She made it somewhat close. Out on HER OWN, she will be soooo much stronger. Thus, the liberal media hatred for her....she scares the heck out of the left.

Toddon CapeCod: I feel sorry for you, if Sarah Palin is the savior of the Republican party.

When will Sarah Palin go off to see the wizard for the "brain" needed to run this country? Just asking

Todd – Are those of you on the Right like all the fundamentalist Christians who 'worship' the pre-Christian Old Testament god of wrath and vengenance rather than the New Testament god of love? Do you not understand that an "Electoral College landslide' is a win in the system designed by the Founding Fathers? Do you not understand that this is the system we have? It surely does remind me of those right-wing 'christians' who expound hate, apparently mindless of the fact that Jesus taught love. Your complaint about the Electoral College shows ignorance of how the country was founded and the role the Electoral College played in making it possible to find compromises between small states and large ones. As for Sarah Palin, I applaud you and your party for following such true American figures like Sarah, Dick Cheney, and Rush Limbaugh! Talk about the Three Stooges!

McCain: "But we have to do a better job of regulation and transparency. The status quo is not acceptable either."

Oh that's rich, coming from you.

I like her. My hope is that we can get her elected President in time to reverse the Socialist damage Obama is inflicting on us daily. I pray that the Constitution isn't so shredded by then that we can still have an election.

She probably did help with whackjobs on the right....fortunately the election was decided by independents by and large based on the campaign performances of the candidates.....

Uh, Uh, ToddonCapeCod, it is not to the "chagrin of the left" - the left loves it that conservatives love Palin. She is such a ditz that we pray she will take center stage for 2012. Problem is, she won't; she'll be muscled out by the likes of Romney et al. - i.e., those Repubs who are so hungry for the presidency, they'll eat Ms. SP for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Yeah, John promised to follow Laden to the gates of hell...wow! I am mindly safe because they are not in WH. It's hard to believe seeing Palin with her incompetence, John with his temper and age being in the WH. I do not know where I'll be living now, either in Heaven (heart attack would have killed me) or in Iceland. I am so happy and praising God that Americans made the genious decision electing the smartest, very intelligent, hardworking, coolest president ever...regardless of his race! Please keep SP in Alaska, hopefully Russians will come to get her from her porch and hopefully we'll not hear from her anymore!

"......and it was an Electoral College landslide, not an electoral landslide), Sarah Palin on the ticket prevented an even worse defeat for McCain. She has and continues to energize the conservatives in this country, much to the chagrin of the Left"

You are simply wrong. Presiden Obama DID win in an electoral landslide, especially when you take into consideration that the DIEBOLD machines are proven to be rigged toward Rushpublican'ts.
The only thing you got right was that Palin energizes people, sane people, who want someone that cares about ALL people, that has a proven intellect, that is not a liar or narcissitic, those energized people DO NOT WANT Palin anywhere near goverment!

The only reason why Sarah Palin got those votes is that she is hot, period. She is a MILF and yet people wonder why she still enerigize anybody. C'mon remove Palin and insert Coulter or Bachmann and see if McCain still get his 50 millon votes? Can you say blowout over and over again?

To be precise, he should have said, "58,343,671" or 46% of the people voted for the McCain/Palin Ticket. Just as a "gentle reminder" that NOT ALL Americans are Fools, Idiots, Clinically Delusional Morons with a Political, Economic and Social Suicide Wish and the attention span of an American Idol/People Magazine/Celebrity worship mental brainwashed drone. In my opinion.

The Palin remark is just humorous modesty. But Palin does have a zealous and committed following. She might get the nomination in 2012, although it would be a long shot, just like Reagan was a long shot.

Another way of saying those who didn't vote for the Republican ticket voted against Palin.

and...I donated to SarahPAC. Senator Palin in 2010 and President Palin in 2012.

ToddonCapeCod. What you say may be true about the conservatives in this country, but there are not enough of those to win an election. The rest of your post is from another planet.

Now Palin running her own campaign for 2 years instead of being on somebody else ticket for 2 years. Now you know why Dems fear her so much.

It is comical that John McCain was so accurate about what to expect from a Democrat administration rubber stamped by a Democratic congress. It's not even April yet and they have spent us into debt for generations that aren't even born yet! The odd thing is that even though Obama backs away from just about every campaign promise he made there are still a few liberals out there yelling," Hooray for us! We elected Obama!"

I don't understand all the hateful stuff about Sen McCain. What he said in regards is true some of these actions for the financial sector. It's worth the debate.
This guy lost but has carried himself with dignity the same dignity former VP Gore has shown after he had an election actually STOLEN from him.
I think you President Obama supporters need to consider the grace in defeat Sen McCain has shown. He disagrees with President Obama, no big deal, some of those in President Obama's own party disagree with him as well.

ToddonCapeCod–there's no chagrin over here on the left. None at all. It's amazing how often Palin supporters claim that her opponents are afraid of her. No–I would have been afraid to have her in a position of power. That's because she is stupid, incompetent and dishonest. But fortunately, she's such a laughingstock that I, for one, am delighted to have her front and center as much as possible.

No, what is really terrifying is watching the amateur hour/gong show going on daily with the President and his staff

nervous about government oversight... yet we have to do a better job of regulation? old fart speaks with forked tongue; can't make sense of one sentence...

As a liberal, I hope McCain is able to convince the GOP to put Palin back on the ticket in four years. I can't think of a development that would more surely keep the Democrats in the White House.

She cost him the election. There is no doubt in anyone mind except for the delusional lemmings that promote flat earth, creationism, and the "us against them" philosophy that polarizes the GOP

Of course we have to do a better job at regulating those financial services that fall outside the jurisdiction of the FDIC – that's exactly the purpose of what the administration is proposing!

And THAT makes Mr. McCain "very nervous?"

Please go back into the scare bunker with Cheney!

Well Mr. McCain, this voter DID NOT vote for you BECAUSE of Sarah Palin. Anybody else, ANYBODY, and who knows........

Many moderate Republicans voted AGAINST Palin. She did help McCain with the ultra-conservative right wing nut-job vote, though.

It is very nice to hear the young crowd gave a standing ovation. John McCain is an honorable American hero. Too bad he lost the election. It may have saved our country from going broke. As it is, the debt being piled on our country and the slashing of our military budget will take years to fix.

Bin Laden's in Parachinar, Pakistan. Why don't you go get him?

Keep Palin as the voice of the Republican party!

If they want to make this bumbling hick who nobody even heard of 6 months ago their standard-bearer, by all means!

Oh really? Is that why you lost? I think like with your homes, you miscounted.

This makes me feel a bit sorry for him. I didn't vote for him, but he is a really nice guy, and it's a depressing thought to think people would warm more to Mrs. drill-baby-drill/pro-ignorance/anti-education/anti-logic, instead of him. It worries me that one of the more reasonable republicans is the one who is not incredibly popular within his own party.

First of all, McCain was being glib. I doubt the hard polling data would support the contention that those that voted for McCain were actually voting for Palin.

Secondly, polling data immediately after the election showed that the vast majority of the public had an unfavorable opinion of Palin. Perhaps some who voted for Obama were also strongly voting against her.

She polls well with the most conservative members of the GOP, but that will not get you elected to anything other than President of the Rush Limbaugh Fan Club.

This lifelong Democrat who has never voted Republican even for a dog catcher- did vote for John McCain. I still bellieve that he was an all american hero who deserved the Presidency

I thank GOD almost every day that America chose the BETTER choice, President Obama instead of mcschizo and the clueless pathological liar!

Am so looking forward to putting that senile old politician out to pasture. As long as the republican party continues to adhere to the direction of the very leadership that brought them to the point of being insignificant, their core constituency who left in droves, will continue to wander, unrepresented in the political wilderness. Having the choice of pure Socialist/Progressive representation or Socialist L:ite is no choice at all. At least with the current herd in charge, America's true enemies are front and center for the whole world to see. And I'm seeing evidence that the world likes not what they eagerly bought into.

many who ultimately voted for obama were the same voters who were on the fence until you picked caribou barbie.
you vp pick tanked any chance of you winning the election & also brought to light just how far right the vast majority of the party is.

I would say to John McCain that most people voted AGAINST Sarah Palin!

Duh! You think! Most people know that McCain's campaign was floundering badly before he added Sarah Palin to the ticket. While she did not add any more brain power – the fact that she was nice looking and could read very well from a script enticed the men and sparked great interest from women. While Palin (and many other Republicans) thought that she would get all of the Hillary Clinton supporters over to McCain's side, we saw that only worked with some women. For educated women, they were offended by the pick.

As for McCain's comments on President Obama's economic plan, I say this - at least the President has a plan. McCain thought that he could get into office by focusing on terrorism and the fact that he was a war veteran. The people showed him and the Republican Party that we could select a President who had proposed solutions for all of the ills plaguing our country!