Some weak-willed so-called conservatives have apparently decided that 'frothing at the mouth' is not a good image for Republicans. What is their problem?

I bet John McCain is SO relieved to have lost and not to have to deal with this mess! He conceded about 27 seconds after the race was called at 11p EST for Obama.

It's important to point out that the crowd at Grant Park on 11/4 applauded McCain when he made his concession speech.

Assuming McCain does work with Obama, I wonder how much influence that will have on his Party? Somehow I doubt he will convince people like Corker and McConnell that cooperation is in their best interest.

Obama continues to have an uncanny instinct for doing the right things to achieve his objectives. I see moves like this as a subtle strategy to marginalize the far right. I saw some statistics recently on the drop in Republican turnout this election. There are clearly some moderates out there who are really disenchanted. The current antics of the far right can only alienate the moderates more and more.

With Bush in the WH, I had forgotten what it was like to have a gracious president. It's really nice not to cringe when the leader of the free world speaks (or the leader as of 1/20/09).

Yeah, and echo the sentiment about McCain being relieved about not having to deal with this mess. He might even be relieved to be done with the mess called SheWhoMustNotBeNamed.

Just sayin'.

A prediction: By the 2010 election, John McCain will be an independent caucusing (with Joe Lieberman) with the Democrats. His party's leaders are mad at him because he was insufficiently conservative (that's why they lost the election!) and he is mad at them because he embraced every one of their crack pot schemes during the campaign (cf. Sarah Palin) and it still didn't do him any good. He'll split with his party leaders on immigration, climate change, and perhaps the stimulus and entitlement reform. The mutual antagonism will escalate; he'll tell them to go to hell. He's got a big enough ego so that if he can't leave the Senate as president, he'll leave it, con brio, as a maverick. Obama is shrewd enough to know this, and personable enough to make it happen.

I wonder what's going through Hillary's mind.

That's what's kind of interesting about John McCain, who is a very conservative Republican: he prefers flexing his muscles as a long-time senator by actually doing things and making legislation happen instead of playing the current leadership's game of oppose-oppose-oppose. That at least is someone you can work with and it's one of the things that (IMO) make people assume he's a moderate. He isn't -- he's a conservative who thinks he was elected to make laws, not to obstruct them from being passed.

Phoebes is right indeed.

And, not just on the economy. Thomas Ricks says that, even should Obama get re-elected, we’ll still be in Iraq at the end of his second term; I totally agree, including how he’s fudged with the phrase “combat troops,” in shades of Vietnam.

That said, back to McCain. Obama just needs him to peel off himself, Snowe and Collins for the first six months. Not even a filibuster threat then exists in the Senate. Even Rollover Harry Reid can understand that one.

Obama will be the first president I've ever wanted to hug.

This is a good sign, we need this better atmosphere with things going so badly. I thought Obama was going to literally appoint more Republicans (well, how many did he?), what's up with that?

It's interesting how the monstrous ogres in politics turn out to be relatively ok when the campaign rhetoric dies down.

"It's reassuring when the monstrous ogres in politics turn out to be relatively ok when the campaign rhetoric dies down."

Fixed. People originally thought George and Dick would "turn out to be relatively ok" when the campaign ended too. Doesn't always happen.

To be honest, it doesn't surprise me that McCain seems much more benign now. His campaign's worst excesses weren't coming from him, even if as the top man he was responsible for them. Palin wasn't even his pick for VP. As was said, he probably feels glad he doesn't have to defend her anymore.

The same is actually true of Hillary Clinton. Take away the contributions of Mark Penn and a few other idiots, and there wasn't really much wrong with Clinton's campaign. Since she hasn't been associating with Penn for months, it's far easier to like her these days.

They would not smuggle in huge numbers of rockets in preference to anti-tank weapons, as these just give the evil Jews an invitation to drop their one ton bombs.

Hamas has stated on numerous occasions that the rockets they fire carry only one message: as long as Palestinians feel insecure, so shall the Israelis. There's really no more to it than that. The people who run Hamas aren't stupid, even though they're Arabs. They realize the military limitations on their home-made rockets.
As to the post election behavior of the political class (make no mistake, they are a separate, privileged class), this turnaround should make it abundantly clear that this fake animosity is just christian and lions stuff to keep the underclass vicariously entertained, ie. pump up the adrenaline and all that stuff.

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