Message to John McCain: SHUT UP.

Mike Allen at The Politico:

In a surprising rebuke to the warriors who fought for him through tough times, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Sunday sided with President-elect Barack Obama and scolded the Republican National Committee for fanning the

We need to invade Michigan and rebuild the state from the ground up. We will be greeted as liberators, we have clear supply lines, and we can easily rebuild the auto industry with the kind of money we spend on

Let’s start, with a premise:

Every Republican president candidate since 1964 has had their level of success or failure, respectively, tied directly to the degree of voter perception that they have or have not turned their back on conservatism.

Consider

So who is tougher, a veteran of the rough and tumble world of Chicago politics or a mother of five, and state governor, from Alaska?   Michelle reports that BO’s chief of staff:

Rahm Emanuel can’t stand the heat

“Cold Cash” Jefferson left out in the cold.

When Mrs. Pelosi become Speaker of the House, she vowed to “drain the swamp.”    Rather than draining her swamp, Mrs. Pelosi has allowed her swamp to become even more infested.   Well yesterday,

Oprah Winfrey has her knickers in a twist because the ‘Cuba, Sarah Palin has not agreed to do Winfrey’s show, Extra:

“I said I would be happy to talk to Sarah Palin when the election was over,” Oprah reveals

Curses, foiled again.   Republican Saxby Chambliss defends his Senate seat in Georgia, Associated Press:

ATLANTA – Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss won re-election Tuesday in a runoff, dashing Democrats’ hopes of capturing enough seats in the U.S. Senate to thwart

James at OTB is saying:

Senator Ted Stevens, who looked to have narrowly won re-election to the Senate weeks after being convicted on felony corruption charges, has now apparently lost as absentee ballots are slowly counted.

Sen. Ted Stevens, the

Did you see this in the New York Times, this morning?

ANCHORAGE — Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska fired back Friday at the unnamed McCain campaign aides who have been maligning her in recent days, saying that their criticism

You’re going to hear quite a bit from the left over ‘the death of conservatism’ over the next few weeks. But they’ve got it wrong. I say, what we’ve got is the death of compromised conservatism as espoused by George

DRJ Patterico’s Pontifications gets warm on why the McCain-Palin ticket lost to a leftist moron:

To many conservatives, McCain’s maverick strain was not a selling point and his pick of Palin was not enough to reassure them. I understand those

The Wall Street Journal states the bloody obvious:

According to recent Gallup polls, the president’s average approval rating is below 30% — down from his 90% approval in the wake of 9/11. Mr. Bush has endured relentless attacks from

A new report just released — hours before the polls open on Election Day — exonerates Gov. Sarah Palin in the Troopergate controversy.

The state Personnel Board-sanctioned investigation is the second into whether Palin violated state ethics law in firing

“Is McCain making a move? The three-day average holds steady, but McCain outpolled Obama today, 48% to 47%. He is beginning to cut into Obama’s lead among independents, is now leading among blue collar voters, has strengthened his lead among

Passed on by a friend of mine today…

 

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I can’t add a thing to that.

Cross-posted from The Conservative Reader.