I live in Arizona, am a Republican and it'll be a cold day in Hell before I vote for this kiss-ass Democrat "maverick." He ran a horrible presidential campaign - lackluster just like his record in the Senate. He should pack it in. He'd do us all a favor. The article states he "talked with Obama" - "talked with Napolitano" and will push her nomination through the Senate.... This guy hold Democrats higher than Republicans. He's the worst the Senate has to offer.

Give it up Mccain, retire you wont win not after that nasty Horrible Campaign you ran, and that Unintelligent far right nutcase you choose for VP Im afraid your Political career is over My Friend!

Hopefully a result of the GOP losses will be a purging of the RINOs and neo-cons (really RINOs) from the party leadership.

The democratic party leadership needs the same extremist purging but it won't happen. They would have actually elected someone more moderate rather than depending on a spending advantage and calling upon the media to annoint their candidates.

"Give it up Mccain, retire you wont win not after that nasty Horrible Campaign you ran, and that Unintelligent far right nutcase you choose for VP Im afraid your Political career is over My Friend!

Posted by: ANGIE"

His campaign was horrible but so far as nasty Obama ran every bit as much of a nasty campaign. Obama ran more negative ads but since he spent 4X+ the money he also had the money to run fluff ads.

The media's coverage was proven to be biased its sad that so many people bought into the illusion. Partisan liberals it doesnt matter they see what they want to see anyways but a lot of sensible people were fooled by the media this election.

McCain is finally putting our country first.

No Cyros
your wrong anyone with Intelligence and a brain could see Mccain used poor Judgement in Picking Palin,That was not the Medias Fault that was Mccains. His horrible Negative Campaign was not the Medias fault but Mccains. face reality and quit blaming the Media for Mccains lost and Blame who is Responsible JOHN MCCAIN!

Dear John,
Do you understand the significance of a "Dear John" letter? This is it.

My question is, which McCain will be the one running for office? Will it be the McCain of "Our economy is fundamentally strong" or someone else? Is this the McCain who thinks we should keep soldiers in Iraq for another 100 years, or the one who is looking forward to working with our new president to making the country better?

McCain
Do us CONSERVATIVE republicans a favor and do not run again. You have never been what the republican party truly stands for and strives for...

-limited gov't

-low taxes for everyone (including the wealthiest 10% who currently pay 70% of the US tax bill)

-drilling here and NOW(instead of sending $500,000,000,000.00 annually to countries who hate us when that $$ could be swimming in our own economy and creating jobs)

Also, you ran one of the worst campaigns I have seen thus far. Not once did you look Barry O in the eye and say "why did you bring your children to hear Goddamn America, America is the worst terrorist nation in the world, America created the AIDS virus ect"

Finally, you ultimately failed to make the obvisous connection between Barry O, ACORN, BARNEY FRANK, CHRIS DODD, CHUCK SCHUMER AND WHOLE SLEW OF OTHER ROBIN HOOD SOCIALIST DEMS WHO ARE THE REAL REASON OUR ECONOMY IS IN SHAMBLES.

PLEASE DO NOT RUN AGAIN, I SALUTE YOUR SERVICE AS ANY DECENT AMERICAN DOES, BUT YOUR SERVICE IN OUR GOV'T HAS BEEN LESS THEN ACCEPTABLE.

Palin/not Romney x 25

The Mummy Returns

McCain took a chance with the Ayers ads. He knew that since the MSM is in the tank with Obama that they would be crying about how mean he was to poor little Barry.

I know Libs who voted for Obama. They knew about Ayers, Rezko, Wright, and the Frank/CRE thing...they simply didn't care. Best I can figure they wanted to identify with Obama because it fits in with their 'progressive', modern self-perception and ego. It's not because they really have faith in Obama (what do they really know about him?) it just makes themselves feel good.

And if you all think anyone besides McCain had even a shot for the Republican Party in this particular election, then, uh, you're wrong. So there.

There's no way that a true Conservative would have had a prayer.

I love it! The Republican hypocrites are finally calling out their own brethren for their corrupt, money mongering ways. When will all conservatives wake up and realize that they are moronic? Obama won because there are no Republicans worth the air they breath.

I really hope McCain runs for president with Palin again and again and again. For sure it will keep the Republicans out of the white house again and again and again. Tsk Tsk.

chris

I'm sure you are a socialist who would probably vote for bill ayers as "man of the year". conservatives are EXACTLY what the founding fathers envisioned our leaders to be.
-small gov't
-self reliance
-large military
-small taxes for everyone.

Liberals have morphed from the days of "ask not what your country can do for you........" into "spread the wealth around" and "pay my car payment barry o","daddy needs a new pair a shoes"!

Abe lincoln built the republican party by combating slavery, while andrew jackson started the dems to fight FOR slavery. Look in your history book, as long as wasn't written by a liberal, and you will see it was the republicans like MLK and Lincoln who brought about real change for people's rights.

The dems(who were the most racist Americans in history) Jackson, Johnson, Byrd, Wallace, the list goes on and on, only picked up on the civil rights movement when they realized entitlements=votes.

The principal cause as to why the GOP lost in '06 & '08 is essentially the same as the reason for similar losses some 30-45 years ago--Rockefeller Republicanism (today known as Moderate Republicanism). MRs--concentrated primarily in the ultra-leftwing Northeast and West Coast--say that the GOP needs to moderate on social issues; if that was the answer, why did the party perform so terribly in the '60s and '70s when it acquiesced on the issues of abortion and homosexuality? What kind of leadership existed back then? For starters, Congresses 91-96 were heavily-Democratic; as for the Presidency, there was Nixon, VP Agnew, Ford and VP Rockefeller (after whom this political mindset is named). These were all MRs who provided nothing but migraines for a party which had lost its way some 120 years after its founding.

The Grand Old Party was founded in 1854 to combat the immorality of slavery and continued fighting against evil Jim Crowism for the next century. By the 1960s, the party had been taken over by MRs--at a time when the moral fabric of America was beginning to unravel. Until Ronald Reagan arrived, there was virtually no distinction between the Republicans and Democrats (with the expection of Watergate); when Reagan took control in '80, his very strong conservative message carried the GOP to the White House in dual landslide victories (489 and 525 EVs, respectively) and enabled the party to assume control of the Senate. George H.W.Bush won the Presidency running on Reagan’s successes but faltered in '90 by welching on his '88 convention pledge "Read my lips, no new taxes"; he lost re-election in '92. Two years later, Newt Gingrich devised a "Contract With America" to tackle America's problems and led the GOP to a 64-seat sweep of Congress--52 House seats and 12 Senate seats (the first GOP Congressional majority in 40 years). During the initial six years, the Republicans made good progress in the areas of balancing the budget and welfare reform; they prodded Bill Clinton to go along despite his initial opposition. Finally, in 2000, the GOP achieved what it hadn’t been able to in 46 years...unified control of the US Government. It was here when the GOP began once again to veer-off the road of conservatism--particularly in regard to spending tax-money. Not one of the budgets passed between '01 and '06 was challenged or vetoed by President Bush; in fact, the only bill vetoed by Bush in that time frame was the one dealing with the federal funding of stem-cell research. Bottom line, GOP...get back to conservative values, get rid of the MRs and you’ll be victorious again

I'm shocked at the amount of bad grammar, poor spelling and lack of punctuation. While some arguments make sense, the grammar problems make those arguments lose credibility.
That being said, McCain has done an amazing job in the Senate. But that's exactly it. He works well on developing policy and bills, as he did with McCain-Feingold. Problem with McCain is, he is not a leader, he has no clear vision, and he doesn't inspire.
Democrat or Republican, America needs a leader who can once again give America hope and encourage Americans to work together, for the greater good, for future generations, and for the promise America holds.
Kennedy, Reagan, Roosevelt were all great men. They all forced America to dream for something greater. Why settle for anything less, which, for all his strengths, is exactly what McCain was offering.

will this idiot ever just go away..............

why is it taxpayers have to keep paying for this guys Depend Undergarments?

"Two years later, Newt Gingrich devised a "Contract With America" to tackle America's problems and led the GOP to a 64-seat sweep of Congress--52 House seats and 12 Senate seats (the first GOP Congressional majority in 40 years). During the initial six years, the Republicans made good progress in the areas of balancing the budget and welfare reform; they prodded Bill Clinton to go along despite his initial opposition."
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now this is funny. What really happened is they couldn't override a presidential veto and they were forced to give Clinton what he wanted. To pretend either side gets 100% credit for the good that happened in that period would be ignorant but a President with no worry of veto override is far more powerful than a Congress with a simple majority. You can put your garbage conservative spin on it but it was what it was and nothing regarding the truth of the period fits the above quoted statement.