Fantastic. I figured they’d at least wait until the day after McCain lost before the knives came out and the rats started jumping ship. But patience and maturity haven’t been the GOP’s strong suits for at least a decade.

And Bush must be laughing his arse off, seeing the humiliating denoument to “The Tragedy of John McCain” arriving earlier than expected.

Republicans need an Ellen Ripley to open the hatch and suck that bloodsucking creature out into the airless realm of space for good.

I get the sense the Know Nothings are about to head out the hatch all on their own. And Pat Buchanan and Ron Paul are docked there, waiting to take them on board so they can join the Xtian Krusade against immigrant aliens.

Wow; I thought they would wait until after the election to implode.

I don’t know how much of a breech of custom it is for campaign workers to send out their resumes in advance of an electoral blow-out. I seem to recall stories of Dukkasis’s people and Bush I’s people doing the same thing. I’m almost positive that James Baker was putting out feelers well in advance of Clinton’s spanking.

This race has always been the Democrats to lose. I’m surprised the race is even close!

1) Running against an old man who has had cancer.
2) Outspent opponent by at least four times
3) Record money raised and spent…about 600 million
4) Opponent’s party is party of unpopular president.
5) 2 unpopular wars
6) Economy tanks

And STILL the Democratic party struggles to win. It’s supposed to be a cake walk. It isn’t.

The conclusion one must draw is that because of the closeness of the race that without any two of these extraordinary circumstances, Democrats would not be able to win. I believe the country, as a whole, is a lot more conservative than the media would have you believe.

I figured they’d at least wait until the day after McCain lost before the knives came out and the rats started jumping ship. But patience and maturity haven’t been the GOP’s strong suits for at least a decade.

I think this analysis from Steve Benen is right on:

The operatives running McCain’s campaign aren’t just worried about a likely defeat, they’re also worried about their personal reputations, and the extent to which they’ll be blamed if and when the campaign comes up short. As these aides see it, it’s important to get a jump on assigning blame now, before someone else points the finger at them and, in the process, undermines their career. A circular firing squad is almost an inevitable dynamic.

It’s far better to be the first person pointing fingers than to be the last person pointing fingers.

The conclusion one must draw is that because of the closeness of the race that without any two of these extraordinary circumstances, Democrats would not be able to win. I believe the country, as a whole, is a lot more conservative than the media would have you believe.

Well, I suppose if one is an idiot, that is the conclusion one must draw. A non-idiot might be tempted to look at the fact that Obama specifically and Democrats in general are poised to pull off a victory of historical proportions and conclude that the country is much more progressive than the media would have you believe. But hey, nice spin job there bucko.

Pam, that image of the Theocratastic being the alien gestating within (then bursting out and killing) the Rethuglican Party is B*R*I*L*L*I*A* N*T !!!!!

BRILLIANT METAPHOR!!!

This Metaphot needs to GO VIRAL

The conclusion one must draw is that because of the closeness of the race that without any two of these extraordinary circumstances, Democrats would not be able to win. I believe the country, as a whole, is a lot more conservative than the media would have you believe.

My God, you’re right!  I never saw before that the Democrat candidate pulling away and increasing his lead in the final stretches of the campaign was actually bad for the Democrats.

Good Lord - if Obama wins the election, the Party will be screwed.  And if Congress tips strongly Democrat, as the polls are making likely, then the devastation will be complete and teh Republicans will have won!

Thank you for these words of wisdom.  Why don’t you go play in traffic?

I believe the country, as a whole, is a lot more conservative than the media would have you believe.

Well, I know that your average Republican voters, as a whole, are a lot more stupid and ignorant than the media would have you believe. After all, they’ve blindly supported a candidate who (checking your list):

1) is an old man who has had cancer (and has a grossly underqualified Xtian fantasist as backup)
2)applied the funds he raised in ineffective and wasteful ways
3) couldn’t raise a fraction as much in big donations as his opponent did from small donors
4) belongs to the party of, and supported 90% of the time, an unpopular president.
5) supported 2 unpopular wars, went looking for more
6) responds to the economy tanking with vague talk of plans and hope that people will look to Jeebus.

So yeah, based on your own facts, you’d have to agree that someone would have to be pretty bloody stupid to vote for McCain—as stupid as you’d have to be to vote for Bush in 2004, or, per dweeze, stupid enough to draw the conclusion you did.

I’ve been expecting god to send some lightning bolts to strike down these GOP pirates and theocratic charlatans for all of their blatant lies and thievery.

And I’m not even a believer!  But it certainly would be fun to see!

Yee-haaw is not foreign policy.

Reverse Robin Hood is not economic policy.

Hoping that Jeesus will smite teh gays is not social policy.

They bet on fairy-tales beating reality.  Sooner or later, reality bit them back.

Now that history has shown that every single axiom of conservatism is wrong, and that hiding that fact behind lies, hate-mongering and vote-manipulation does not work any more, they have nothing left going on for them.  The ideology is discredited, the GOP brand that carried that ideology (in its most pure form over the last 8 years) is effectively dead, so what is else there for them to do but to bitch at each other?

an unfocused message

What, unfocused? John McCain is not Obama, my friends. He’s no scary black man who palls around with Muslims and terrorists (redundant, right?). As long as McCain keeps reiterating that point, he stays on message.

Let’s not forget that McCain is the only confirmed adulterer in the crowd, something the evangelicals have glossed over and buried in their blind zealotry for Palin. For better or for worse but not for me, baby….that was his motto then and that will be his motto in office if we have too many conned to vote for him.

BTW, anyone following the family? We just heard from his brother, but the young McCain son has quickly slithered away after desperately resigning his board positions in several failed banks out West before they crashed. Something smells there.

The most he ever commanded was the Navy’s largest squadron in peacetime, he was well known as an unpredictable commander back then placing not one drop of common sense into many of his decisions. He has proven once again as unpredictable as a candidate as well. There were always plans by his Dad’s buddies to take him out from the squadron commander job if it ever went to war. He couldn’t be trusted, too unpredictable for a joint command. I’d be scared to have him handle the nukes. But then again, I’d be scared to hand them to Palin even more!

There’s actually two babies coming out. One was the religious right, the other the extreme neo-conservative, named John Birch….

Heinlein was right in “Revolt in 2100”. The best formula for making a democratic United States into a Theocratic Dictatorship to to give Palin the job of VP.

These nasty people are beginning to devour one another.  It is the end of a very ugly era.  Soon there will be nothing left but the stench.

- Arye Michael Bender