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Posted Tuesday, November 04, 2008 11:07 PM

In the Goldwater Suite

By Howard Fineman
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Posted By: whatisreal? (November 7, 2008 at 7:26 PM)

The Christian right??? A Christian political party! Wow, you know, that is really blasphemy at it's finest. The biblical Christ would really not like that at all. But if you want to be part of all of that, thisis a free country. Just don't expect for other believers to stand by while a political religion trys again to control a free nation. Freedom to believe, freedom to choose what to believe.

While I have my beliefs they are personal and mine. While I live in a country i will never support a religion in government and will fight it. It will never happen again, ever!


Posted By: yellow tiger (November 6, 2008 at 8:19 PM)

I feel really bad for Senator Mc Cain because it is unlikely that he will run again and win the White

House. I feel that he suffered some age related discrimination because of his age and his past

medical history of skin cancer which he does not have any more. Many people have had a history

of cancer in their lives but once the tumor is removed the cure rate for cancer has improved

greatly. Cancer is not a death sentence any more with early diagnosis and proper treatment. Yet,

the media critics created a myth that somehow Senator Mc Cain would die in office if elected and

that Sarah Palin would become the president.  Senator Mc Cain appears to be in good health

and will probably live a long time since medical care has an uncanny ability to keep people

alive.

  I admit that Senator Mc Cain's campaign did not have the resources or time commitment that

Senator Obama's campaign did. Obama simply ran a better campaign. He got his message out

early, and developed a groundswell of supporters that were loyal to him in the end. And even

though the secret democrat within me is happy that President elect Obama has won (we can move

forward, get out of Iraq, start mending diplomatic wounds world wide, and start to tackle our own

domestic problems), the outward republican that I am is a little sad for Senator Mc Cain. I wish he

could run again but he probably won't. It will mostly likely be Jeb Bush in 2012, although Senator

Lindsay Graham should consider running. And what about Sen. Bill Frist? The Christian right

movement is not dead, it just needs a new front runner.

  In the meantime, I hope President elect Obama doesn't start spend and tax, we have a huge

deficit now and tax increases to offset new spending is a disincentive to entrepreneurship and

wealth creation. Just ask any salesperson who lives on comission.


Posted By: yellow tiger (November 6, 2008 at 8:15 PM)

I feel really bad for Senator Mc Cain because it is unlikely that he will run again and win the White

House. I feel that he suffered some age related discrimination because of his age and his past

medical history of skin cancer which he does not have any more. Many people have had a history

of cancer in their lives but once the tumor is removed the cure rates for cancer have improved

greatly. Cancer is not a death sentence any more with early diagnosis and proper treatment. Yet,

the media critics created a myth that somehow Senator Mc Cain would die in office if elected and

that Sarah Palin would become the president.  Senator Mc Cain appears to be in good health

and will probably live as long time since medical care has an uncanny ability to keep people

alive.

  I admit that Senator Mc Cain's campaign did not have the resources or time commitment that

Senator Obama's campaign did. Obama simply ran a better campaign. He got his message out

early, and developed a groundswell of supporters that were loyal to him in the end. And even

though the secret democrat within me is happy that President elect Obama has won (we can move

forward, get out of Iraq, start mending diplomatic wounds world wide, and start to tackle our own

domestic problems), the outward republican that I am is a little sad for Senator Mc Cain. I wish he

could run again but he probably won't. It will mostly likely be Jeb Bush in 2012, although Senator

Lindsay Graham should consider running. And what about Sen. Bill Frist? The Christian right

movement is not dead, it just needs a new front runner.

  In the meantime, I hope President elect Obama doesn't start spend and tax, we have a huge

deficit now and tax increases to offset new spending is a disincentive to entrepreneurship and

wealth creation. Just ask any salesperson who lives on comission.


Posted By: yellow tiger (November 6, 2008 at 8:06 PM)

I feel really bad for Senator Mc Cain because it is unlikely that he will run again and win the White

House. I feel that he suffered some age related discrimination because of his age and his past

medical history of skin cancer which he does not have any more. Many people have had a history

of cancer in their lives but once the tumor is removed the cure rates for cancer have improved

greatly. Cancer is not a death sentence any more with early diagnosis and proper treatment. Yet,

the media critics created a myth that somehow Senator Mc Cain would die in office if elected and

that Sarah Palin would become the president.  Senator Mc Cain appears to be in good health

and will probably live as long time since medical care has an uncanny ability to keep people

alive.

  I admit that Senator Mc Cain's campaign did not have the resources or time commitment that

Senator Obama's campaign did. Obama simply ran a better campaign. He got his message out

early, and developed a groundswell of supporters that were loyal to him in the end. And even

though the secret democrat within me is happy that President elect Obama has won (we can move

forward, get out of Iraq, start mending diplomatic wounds world wide, and start to tackle our own

domestic problems), the outward republican that I am is a little sad for Senator Mc Cain. I wish he

could run again but he probably won't. It will mostly likely be Jeb Bush in 2012, although Senator

Lindsay Graham should consider running. And what about Sen. Bill Frist? The Christian right

movement is not dead, it just needs a new front runner.

  In the meantime, I hope President elect Obama doesn't start spend and tax, we have a huge

deficit now and tax increases to offset new spending is a disincentive to entrepreneurship and

wealth creation. Just ask any salesperson who lives on comission.


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Posted By: LudwigVanBeet (November 5, 2008 at 10:38 AM)

I Won't Rub it in of course.,even after the Nasty Campaign that McCain and Palin ran.But I will just say GOOD_BYE to All of you Greedy, Slimy, Racist Vicious Repig's and I can already smell the Rotting , Stinking Putrid Corpse of the Repig_Party as it desoves and Blows awat with the Wind-- P.U.


Posted By: Shoholanana (November 5, 2008 at 8:02 AM)

At sixty seven............I never did understand those who were five or ten years younger.......I hated the late '60's and '70's............some were nut jobs........and George Bush was surely one nut job!

It was surely a time for CHANGE!!!  BABY BOOMERS...........retire and enjoy your grandkids.......they are a blast!!!


Posted By: a commuter (November 5, 2008 at 7:30 AM)

So many of us baby boomers recognized early on that Barak Obama is a special man and that this election was to be transfroming.  In order to leave hope for our children we voted in droves for the president-elect.  As another young senator who won so eloquently  spoke at his inaugriation, "let the word go forth from this time and place to friend and foe alike, that the torch has passed to a new generation for Americans..".  This is for the future of the Republic.


Posted By: obgyn (November 5, 2008 at 3:44 AM)

The first  road to healing for McCain and Palin is to admit what honest people with a sense of

fairness know, they ran a campaign that went from negative , which would have been forgiven, to a campaign of fear and hate that threatend to divide this country, will take a longer time to forget.

If Palin think she will come back in 2012 and we will have forgotten, she's dellusional.


Posted By: obgyn (November 5, 2008 at 3:44 AM)

Senator Obama as well as many of us are deeply grateful to Fmr President Clinton and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Al and Tipper Gore, Debbie Wasserman-Shultz, Bill Richardson,  and so many others  who help Senator Obama complete his road to the White House.

If he were to thank everyone involved in his success, he would be there until his inaugural day.

Senator Obama is a humble man who will help change this great nation for the better.


Posted By: obgyn (November 5, 2008 at 2:53 AM)

The first  road to healing for McCain and Palin is to admit what honest people with a sense of

fairness know, they ran a campaign that went from negative , which would have been forgiven, to a campaign of fear and hate that threatend to divide this country, will take a longer time to forget.

If Palin think she will come back in 2012 and we will have forgotten, she's dellusional.