MUTH'S TRUTHS - Losing with Dignity and Ten Silver Linings Posted: 12 Oct 2008 11:57 AM CDT from MUTH'S TRUTHS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The McCain campaign isn’t - as the Obama campaign likes to claim - Bush II. It’s more like Dole II. There was no passion for or from Republican presidential nominee Sen. Bob Dole in the waning days of 1996 campaign. No energy. No excitement. No…nothing. And down the stretch, when the electoral writing appeared to be on the wall, Sen. Bob Dole decided to lose with dignity rather than throw the kitchen sink into the final days of the campaign hoping that something, anything, might stick and pull out a win. It’s déjà vu all over again in 2008. This is what happens to Republicans when they nominate someone simply because it’s “their turn.” This is what happens when Republicans nominate someone who isn’t a solid philosophical conservative. This is what happens when conservatives allow themselves to be divided and conquered in the primaries and don’t unite behind a single, electable conservative candidate early on. And this is what happens when Republicans allow non-Republicans to vote in Republican primary elections to select their Republican nominee. The Fat Lady isn’t singing yet, but she’s clearing her throat. If McCain doesn’t pull off a “game changing” performance at Wednesday night’s final debate, Big Mo’ will continue to build - not just for Obama, but for Democrats up and down the ticket. And Republicans will not just suffer an historical loss on November 4th; they’ll suffer an historical LANDSLIDE loss on November 4th. There are, however and fortunately, some silver linings to the quite possible McCain loss next month - or at least some mitigating circumstances which won’t make the Obama presidency quite so difficult for conservatives to swallow. Here are ten of them… 1.) Race-hustlers such as Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton will no longer be able to credibly call America a racist nation since it will have elected a black president. 2.) George W. Bush will be gone. With few exceptions, he’s been a disaster for the county, the GOP and the conservative movement. Conservatives will no longer feel compelled to defend his big-government “compassionate conservatism” just because the president is “their guy.” 3.) Cleaning up the mess in Iraq and Afghanistan will now be President Obama’s responsibility. B.O. promised to yank us out of Iraq if elected and focus on getting bin Laden in Afghanistan. He’s about to find out that the real world is a lot more complicated and difficult than he thought. 4.) Cleaning up the financial mess on Wall Street will now be President Obama’s responsibility. He’s sat on the sidelines and blamed this mess on Republicans, but has no more of an idea how to fix it than Bush or McCain does. 5.) With the economy in the toilet, there won’t be any money laying around for President Obama to spend on all kinds of new social welfare programs. 6.) Addressing the financial entitlement ticking time-bombs of Social Security and Medicare will now be President Obama’s responsibility. Good luck with that. 7.) The next two Supreme Court vacancies are likely to be two liberal justices, which means that while the court won’t move further to the right, it likely won’t move further to the left either. And President Obama isn’t likely to nominate Harriet Miers for any opening. 8.) Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will still have a bright conservative future. As vice-president under John McCain, Palin would have been put in the extremely difficult position of defending decidedly non-conservative McCain administration policies - such as the government buying up $300 billion worth of bad mortgages. In defeat, Palin will be able to get some more experience under her belt and truly “be all she can be” in the future. 9.) Republican and conservative grassroots activists, having finally hit rock bottom in 2008, will be more likely to toss out their old, tired, failed leaders and replace them with new, energetic conservative leaders in the House, the Senate and the Republican National Committee. 10.) It took Jimmy Carter to get us Ronald Reagan. Like Carter, Obama’s likely to screw things up over the next four years. His ideology is all wrong. He has no experience. B.O. will be Carter II. And then in 2012 the nation will have an opportunity to elect a solid conservative – someone like Gov. Sarah Palin, Gov. Mark Sanford, Gov. Bobby Jindal, Gov. Haley Barbour or even former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. That is, *if* Republicans don’t blow it again by nominating another Bush, Dole, Bush, McCain or Bush. Uh-oh. The Jerk Posted: 12 Oct 2008 11:17 AM CDT Let’s start today with the now requisite disclaimer that not all Ron Paul supporters are Paultards. Only the jerks and the clinically insane ones. And one of the leading Paultards, Robert Holloway of Las Vegas, fits both categories. He just can’t let it go. Despite the fact that his side lost at every turn trying to force their will on the Republican Party this election cycle - Holloway is still throwing a temper tantrum over the meaningless Nevada GOP convention in Reno last April. The Paultards didn’t win the presidential caucus last January. And they didn’t get control of the entire national convention delegate slate after their spokesman, Jeff “Chemtrail” Greenspan, broke a deal he had with party leaders for four slots. Their faux “re-convention” was a flop. Their court case to get a judge to impose their slate of candidates on the party was laughed out of court. Their appeal to the national GOP to throw out the Nevada GOP’s appointed list of delegates was rejected. And when all was said and done they ended up with the same number of delegates they would have gotten if “Chemtrail” hadn’t reneged on his deal with the party in the first place. And those four delegates ended up voting for McCain anyway. So what was the point of all this unnecessary and counter-productive strife again? Anyway, “Hollow Head” Holloway has now filed an elections complaint with the Nevada Secretary of State and the Nevada Attorney General over last April’s GOP convention - which will go, like all of his other ridiculous efforts, absolutely nowhere. But there’s good news. It appears this may well be the last desperate act of this Paultard. Fortunately for the Republican Party, Holloway is not only a jerk and a loser…he’s a quitter, as well. Remember, the Paultards kept telling everyone over and over again about how they just wanted to work within the party to change it; that they were just trying to be good, principled party soldiers attempting to get the party to return to its conservative roots. Most of us knew these people were nothing but Ron Paul cultists and had no interest in helping or working within the GOP whatsoever, but a few of the foolish were fooled. Well, ol’ Hollow Head has finally showed his true colors. After filing his moronic complaint with the SoS and AG, Holloway sent a whimpering little letter to the Clark County Republican Party yesterday quitting as a member of the Executive Board. And he specifically blamed Clark County GOP Chairman Bernie Zadrowski for driving him out of the party. “Bernie must have cut his political teeth in the Nixon administration or in Mayor Daly’s Chicago machine of a few decades ago,” Hollow Head whined. Way to go, Bernie! Further showing what a complete jerk Hollow Head is, he also wrote: “It seems to me that the actions of the McCain campaign and state party leadership, including Bernie Zadrowski, are similar to what might be expected from the dictatorship in a banana republic or even a NAZI organization…” When you’re so much of a jerk that you compare a local GOP organization to “a NAZI organization” just because you didn’t get your way, you lose any credibility you might otherwise have had on issues of legitimate concern. The party is good to be rid of this loser. He can now return to sucking his thumb and wetting himself and leaving the hard work of party grassroots activism to true party loyalists. So long, Hollow Head. Good riddance. And please take that “mini-me” Paultard son of yours with you. You are subscribed to email updates from MUTH'S TRUTHS To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now.Email Delivery powered by FeedBurner Inbox too full? 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