George's Bottom Line

Thank you, thank you for continuing to honor servicemen and women in your "Memorium" portion of the Sunday program. How easy it would be for us to forget about these young people, yet how much they deserve our sympathy and honor. Looking forward to a day when we/you won't have to include this segment.

This proves McCain's true feelings surrounding Gov. Palin and her selection, not by himself, but by his supposedly "savvy" aides.

http://www.political-buzz.com/

I am ashamed of the man and his staff that I vigorously supported in this election. He had no chance to even showing up in the election results if he didn’t have Sarah. We all know that if the economic disaster had waited a month to appear he could have even won the election. Now he is throwing his life preserver overboard. Sarah deserves his continuing enthusiastic support. Even if he foolishly thinks he could run again in ’12 he would be well served to demonstrate the wisdom of his choice and his strength of character and loyalty to Sarah. She put her entire political career on the line for him. I will bet that had she known his character weakness that would abandon her that she would have said “no thanks, you are not worth the cost”. He should be reminded “The person he is, is how he is remembered by others.” I will remember him as a man who, in defeat, turned his back on those who supported him. Character matters.

Before Palin a few people showed up at the McCain meetings ; with Palin thousands and thousands of people showed up.
And many , many of them voted on Palin and not McCain.
Palin worked very hard for McCain , took the heat for the mistakes the RNC made (among other things ,clothes),got a terrible media bashing and after the election was attacked by "anonymous" sources out of the McCain camp; and McCain was silent.
The courage she displayed against all the hate and ridicule was admirable.
No, my respect goes to Gov.Palin.
Character matters ,and Palin has it.

Charlie: Character matters and that is exactly why Palin lost the election for John McCain. Why can't Republicans see this woman for the clown that she obviously is?

For Sarah Palin this all was a learning process.
Bad preparation about foreign affairs (or no preparation at all) and a bad team to work with.
She came possible to soon on the national stage, but she showed persistence ,sincerity, character and authenticity.
I hope she seeks to learn about foreign affairs and national issues if she plans to run for executive office in the future. I hope she does well.

Two comments, one nice one other:
Paul Krugman is a national treasure.
We all have heard of the elephant in the room; when George Will is around, it's the irrelevant in the room: wrong on facts, wrong on issues, wrong on policy, irrelevant, uninformed, ideaological, and so forth; two good columns in his whole life - one on baseball, one on his father, I believe; both made me cry; so did all the others but for different reason.

I am ashamed- not of Obama, not of McCain or Palin- but of my fellow countrymen. How full of hate you have all become that anyone with an opposing view is characterized as a clown. The truth is that nearly all of you don't know your head from your _____. The country needs all of us to pull together to find the greatness that we once were. Stop beating up on the politicians and reading more into their statements than what is there. McCain said that Obama should come forward sooner rather than later as to what he knew about Chicago politics...Obama will. That wasn't an attack by McCain it was sound advice given without malice. McCain said that his corpse was still warm in response to supporting Sara Palin for President...the man has feelings and is still contemplating his loss...give him that proudly. This country will fail if we continue to attack each other with spite, hatred, jealousy, and condemnation.

tip for the week from the pending book "Americans the Stupid by George P. Crupper...(they) have been given a pacifier of beer, entertainment, a credit card and a promise of a trip to heaven while our leaders in government, business, religion and the media follow the philosophy of Omar the Tent Maker of "take the cash and let the credit go".

McCain and Palin's attempts to undermine president-elect Obama's fine character backfired. Palin is a thinly disguised religious zelot and nut. She needs to pose for a men's magazine where she can be appreciated for what she has to offer. She looks good on the outside, but she doesn't have what it takes in her head.

Also Palin said in essence the same thing as McCain.
On several occasions she said that we now have to work together on important issues.
The election is over ;so , stop saying nasty things about persons and work together.
And to the Palin haters; stop using generalizations-it actually says more about the persons who are using these words than it does about her.

BEFORE Palin, John McCain had my vote. But when he announced her as running mate I did a 180!

Do people know that Sarah Palin has a higher security clearance than the senators, congressmen and other governors? She is commander in chief of the Alaskan National Guard which is first in our country's line of defense against Russia!! She was chosen in February and no one knew til McCain announced it. The media picked on her to no end rather than vetting Obama who is now in a hot seat. I understand what McCain is saying. What I do not understand is what some of you are saying about Sarah Palin. I hope she runs in 2012 and I hope I am alive to vote for her!

I look forward to Governor Palin running for president in 2012. Of all of the candidates out there she is the only one who has what it takes to truly change Washington. She takes a terrible beating from the liberals in the press and also from many in the Republican party heirachy; both want to continue business as usual and see her as a threat to the established order of dysfunction. Ron Paul has similar reformist credentials but he simply lacks the charisma to break through the barrier presented by a liberal press.

BEFORE Palin, Obama had my vote. In fact I actually worked as a volunteer for Obama's campaign. But when McCain announced Palin as his running mate I did a 180 and became a volunteer for Palin!

Palin is a breath of fresh air and a true reformer who would bring real change to Washington. She would make the government work for the people instead of the special interests like Bush has done and Obama will do. That's why both the Democrats and Republicans have been so hard on her.

Palin in 2012!!!

She used and abused McCain to put herself in the national spotlight. I don't want that Bimbo using and abusing my country. Stay in the frozen tundra town where you belong, mommy.

Anything Palin, causes the nuts to come out, this woman is a woman of charecter and she has plenty of time to learn how to be a politician, but the idiots that continue to try to feed the frenzy probably don't have half of the guts or know it all that she has, she is a strong, confident woman and she is doing it all motherhood, professional, etc. Some of you idiots can barely make it out of the bed in the morning, must less accomplish half of what she does in one day, when you can walk in her shoes, then you can criticize, until then just go get a life.

We knew more about Sarah Palin in two weeks , then about Obama in two years.
The media drove about 400 reporters to Alaska to find something about Sarah Palin ,with which they could attack her.
But the found nothing ,so they resort to lies , gossip and anonymous sources.
And so there was a constant daily negative coverage of Sarah Palin.(analysis showed this: PEW)
And that took its effect in the mind of some people.
It is amazing how much the spin of the left wing American media did a number on Sarah Palin.

In these tough times, why is it that congress gives themselves a raise. Even if it is automatic. Why aren't they setting an example and rolling back that raise.

The delusional sheep that are still willing to follow a bumbling idiot (palin) off a glacier.

McCain might have been President elect had he chosen someone with a brain...ie. Pawlenty, or one of the thousands of intelligent Republican woman instead of the airhead. He didn't, so he isn't.

Gorgie Porgie - how dare you ask John McCain about Obama and his friends and about Sarah Palin...Invite Obama on your show and ask him the questions after all he is your candidate, you and ABC are bought and paid for, you biased creeps. You must be related to Charlie Gibson and his sister Katie Couric. I hope by the time the next election takes place that you and all your biased cohorts are gone.

Honestly, it is a stupid question ask. Nobody should be thinking about 2012, we have to solve the problems that face us now. Why do journalist with big egos ask these irrelevant "gotcha" type questions? We don't even know who is running in 2012, and at this point we shouldn't care. Now is the time for the parties to work together where they can to solve our 2008 problems.

From a McCain supporter, that wishes Obama well. We'll pick up this conversation in 2012.

Sarah Palin is just plain ignorant. McCain may like her as an individual but he knows for a fact that she is NOT or ever will be presidential material. Well, maybe for the based but not for Wall Street.

Those Palin supporters were not going to vote for Obama and they were not going to stay at home and watch Obama get elected. It was useless for McCain to pick Palin. He should had picked someone to draw moderates and independants. Those are the ones that tipped the scale for Obama. The Palin nuts hate Obama and would not vote for him

I suppose it kinda turned McCain off when he heard that Palin was considering Rush Limbaugh for a running mate.