This pic of McCain says it all, I think...

[krispos42]

I feel bad for him.

Thrown under the bus in 2000 in the name of The Bush Dynasty.


Sacrificed his image and priciples in 2008, only to be run over again by the out-of-control steamroller of Bush's complete lack of ability to govern for anybody but the wealthy, and his party's complete surrender to such thinking in the name of "freedom".


He was an old political war-horse who's ears pricked up when the bugle call to election battle was sounded by his desperate comrads-in-arms, flailing and outnumbered by Democrats after foolishly over-extending themselves.




I don't like seeing people crushed, generally speaking. I would much rather have had Bush's ass stomped into the ground in 2004. I would have watched that crushing with joy in my heart.

I console myself with the fact that despite what happened to night, he has a powerful legacy to call his own. And he's done well for himself, with a loving family that will never know worry about college or mortgages or food or bills or retirement or medical treatment or vacations.


Good game, Senator McCain, good game.

[jpgray]

1. The man perhaps didn't deserve crushing, but the campaign he ran absolutely -did-

Also, his VP pick also. ;)

[TomInTib]

3. Amen. The Cantankerous One ran a hateful race.

Fuck him.

He went incendiary.

And he deserved to burn.

Fuck him.

[krispos42]

7. Obviously his party and agenda and idealology had to be stopped

And you do that by crushing him.

It's part of the game. But you'd think he'd be smart enough to realize that he was the token resistance to the Democrats, and the Bush Legacy of Utter Failure he would be shackled to would drag him down to this campaign death.

Another reason to think him unfit for the presidency. It's one thing to be the token opposition when you're just starting out in politics; it's part of the tempering process.

It's quite another when you're a multi-term senator in your 8th decade!

[musicblind]

12. That is a very good way to word it. n/t

[Why Syzygy]

2. He is STILL the symbol

of 8 years of destruction, I do not care how much sympathy he garners here.

He should be a REMINDER of how close we could have come to four more years in the pit of hell.
He is still MacBush to me.

[RepublicanElephant]

4. he was in the way of jeb's 2012 run. nt

[krispos42]

8. Ack!

:spank:


NoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNo!


:puke:

[NoQuarter]

11. Will. Not. Happen.

We are Too Through with Bushes.

[carnie_sf]

14. I hope Jeb runs in 2012

That may finally be the end of the BFEE

[Naturyl]

5. I agree with you.

McCain is not an evil man. He was just wrong, and the country recognized it and voted for the better choice.

His campaign was bad and the people around him were bad. He was given the impression he could not win without embracing the crazy right and dancing to their tune. The irony is that he might have won if he hadn't.

In the end, the "maverick" failed to be a maverick and sank his own ship by filling it with giant boat anchors like Palin.

[TTUBatfan2008]

6. I hope he and Barack can set an example...

for the country by working together. We know McCain sides with the Dems on a few major issues. He's flip-flopped on nearly every one of those during this election, but his past suggests that he is willing to reach across the aisle to get things done.

[NoQuarter]

16. His past suggests

he will reach across the aisle to salvage his reputation.

[TTUBatfan2008]

17. Not entirely...

What about his stance against drilling in ANWR and his belief in fighting global warming rather than denying it like the Bush Administration? Energy and the environment are two intertwined issues that I feel McCain already has similar views to Obama on. They could work together on it to get sensible legislation passed.

[Gasping4Truth]

9. A lightsaber, I am familiar with.

But a lightfreesbee????
Is he doing advertising for the next Star Wars installment?

[flygal]

10. yeah, if he was such a Maverick - why didn't he run against bush in 04

I did like his speech, but I hated his campaign of hate.

[quiet.american]

13. Maybe I could agree if the prospect of what he would have unleashed if he'd won weren't so awful

Enough time has not yet passed for me to forget the desperate, last-gasp viciousness of his campaign.

Liked his concession speech, though.

Can't agree that he gave "good game," though. It was the lowest form of campaigning I've ever seen, and after Bush, that's saying something.

[moobu2]

15. Mc90% did it to himself

[demokatgurrl]

18. Sorry, but I find it VERY hard to feel for him

"Sacrificed his image and priciples". That's why.