Oh wait.

Well Sarah Palin hardly counts as a Republican… I think even -they- have standards.

Both sides has their people who acted like idiots. It’s what happens when people don’t agree.

1) He agreed with it.
2) He had advisors telling him that this was the only way to win.

Given my own experience with McCain before and after the campaign, I’m convinced it was the latter. He is still ultimately responsible for his own choices – he said so himself in his speech! – but I think he was given endlessly bad advice.

You can’t blame McCain for his supporters. I heard him speak some time ago and have since wished he hadn’t run for president at all… because having to try to court the far right was going to mean sacrificing his real personality – which we saw in that wonderful speech – to the war-mongers and the ultra-right. The Republican party has been pandering to people who think it’s okay to NOT think things through, rush to judgement, and SUPPORT OUR (insert cause) without question.

Put simply, none of that is the real McCain, but he had to pretend it was so to gain support from his party. Ron Paul refused to do so, and it cost him much earlier on.

I voted for Obama, and would have anyway, but after what I heard from The Real McCain early in the campaign, and from what I saw on November 4, I hope he remains in government. He’s a true patriot and a good man. I genuinely hope we don’t lose him.

Saying “Blaming the victim” like you can equate Internet stupidity with getting raped is a cop-out of enormous magnitude.

Good try. Next bad tactic.

46% of Americans voted for McCain, so I don’t think such a blanket statement is remotely accurate, let alone “unifying.”

Both sides need to stop with the hate.

Not all Democrats are whining, crying, chest-pounding emocrats.
Not all Republicans are uneducated, unsophisticated rednecks.

I’m a registered Republican who voted for Barack Obama. It IS possible to be one country instead of two parties.

Just stop the hate.

thank god he wasn’t.

canada says “congrats”

Many mainstream Christian churches do the exact same
thing. There’s just no official ceremony for kicking a person
out. They’re just shamed and told they’re not true Christians
or made unwelcome by condemning a list of so-called
“unChristian” lifestyles…despite the fact that Jesus said
absolutely nothing about them.
Your objection to them appears to be little more than whining
about their lack of transparency, which makes it impossible
to control.

That’s the same reason, by the way, that the Mormon Church
was considered a cult in the 19th and early 20th century.

Officially, it’s the FLDS that has the cult status.

Such a suggestion smacks way too much of “and they lived happily ever after” to me.

Besides, since when did someone returning to obscurity actually mean no more jokes?

Secondly, if you’re trying to end a war, you don’t bring someone that was for that same war into your cabinet. They disagree on most fundamental aspects of social, fiscal and foreign policy, and McCain has difficulty fighting against the most conservative elements of his party, which he could not control during the election..

Seriously, there’s admiring someone for a nice speech and hoping to heal campaign wounds, and then there’s making unrealistic suggestions just for an artificial feel-good ending.

The major reason Palin was lampooned was not because she was a woman, but because she was an unqualified woman being shoved into a role to grab votes among Hillary’s supporters. Palin as a VP choice demonstrated a level of contempt for women. Had she been anywhere near as qualified as Clinton, the response, not to mention the type of satire and comedy written about her, would have been more policy oriented. As it happens, she doesn’t know much about North America or Africa, apparently.

I’m not a liberal, I’m a moderate, and I’m not empatheic with those that cheapen greatness.