Will Alaska declare war now? ;)

Unless they have a snowmobile and dog sled militia I don’t think they stand a chance in a war.

I guess they’ll shoot you from a helicopter….lol

I think McCain, even though he lost, is still a class act and he gave an excellent concession speech, in my opinion. Palin was lucky to have been there at all since she was such a poor choice as a VP candidate from the very beginning. I think maybe she realizes that this was probably her one and only chance to get a real taste of power and politics (away from her governorship of Alaska) and she is bitter that it all came crashing down like a ton of bricks.

She needs to go back to Alaska with her secessionist husband so they can keeping watching Russia from their house while listening to that divine voice in her head that is still fooling her into believing she can still be a driving force in American politics.

She has already made it clear that she was in this for 2012. What I don’t think she realizes is that she singlehandedly is responsible for the voter turn out. Philadelphia suburbs voted at a record 95%. I think the “No Palin” segment was much bigger that the “No more Bush” segment.

If McCain had a running mate with a shred of intelligence, or even cared about her limits, the election could have been different. Now is not the time for mean-spirited ignorance. We have enough problems to address without having to send a vice president back to college.

“She has already made it clear that she was in this for 2012”

are you serious??? Is this person really THAT delusional?

I hear she’s planning seceding and on making Alaska a sovereign nation.
That way, she can be a Queen again.

She’s made it pretty clear that now she’s on the national scene, she won’t just be going home quietly. And to be fair, her rallies were drawing much larger numbers than McCains were at the end. HOWEVER, her rallies were also drawing fringe groups and inciting hatred at a time when we want to come together. So she might be “that delusional”.

I think she is going to go back into obscurity.

I feel surprisingly sorry for McCain. This man has done so much for his country and I don’t think he deserved to be thoroughly trounced. (I’m feeling nothing but schadenfreude for Sarah Palin.) He was totally classy in his concession speech, and I wish him well in his future endeavors. I feel sorry for the passing of his generation from power. A people without their elders is nothing.

If he hadn’t been so pandery to the religious and wacko Right and ran as the actual maverick that he used to be, he would have done a lot better.

Best blog post I saw all night,

“some moose are gonna have to die for this…”

The REAL fear in my mind is that the Alaska Senate race will go to CONVICTED FELON Ted Stevens, he will step down or be forced out, and Palin will appoint herself to the US Senate, essentially putting herself on the same footing Obama was in 2004.

Rejoice now, but don’t take your eyes off the ball. We saw that Obama won in every age group except 65+...as the older generation dies off and is replaced by a more liberal newer generation, we will begin to defeat the last vestiges of intollerance…OR, the repressed minority could poison the well of the new voters coming into the system and leave us with a crop of 18 to 22 year olds in 2012 who are to the right of W. I know which vision of the future I’m going to fight for.

Dale, I think almost my entire generation is fighting with you. And we’re willing to go door to door to do it, which I think we just proved.

Dale, I heard that it’s against Alaska law for her to appoint herself.

I think she has the choice from what I heard…time will tell, Begich could still pull it out last I checked.

@Dale

R O F L damn those liberal moose, that’s it, they’re getting it now!

Did anyone hear the phone call between Sarah Palin and Nicolas Sarkozy?

Yesterday at lunch, CNN was on a TV where I was eating, no sound but I could read the closed captioning, and they were at the last McCain rally. Again, he didn’t say anything new, but then he starts talking about his great running mate and her husband Todd (or Taaaahhhhd, in Palinese), the first dude, who has raced across Alaska on a snowmobile four times…once he broke his arm 250 miles from the finish line…and WON!!! And I’m thinking “why is this important?” To sum up the race, I think serious times call for serious people, and the McCain campaing was just plain silly.

@fireside

HILARIOUS

@Dale,:
Sarah’s problem isn’t that she doesn’t get it. Sarah’s problem is that she can’t sell it! We have serious problems to solve, and we need serious people to solve them. And whatever your particular problem is, I promise you, Sarah Palin is not the least bit interested in solving it. She is interested in two things and two things only: making you afraid of it and telling you who’s to blame for it. That, ladies and gentlemen, is how you win elections. You gather a group of middle-aged, middle-class, middle-income voters who remember with longing an easier time, and you talk to them about family and American values and character.

Sydney Ellen Wade is out of Sarah Palin’s league.

Oh! Or even better, from the end of it:

This is a time for serious people, Sarah, and your fifteen minutes are up. My name is Barack Obama, and I am the President Elect.

Seriously, I probably have that entire movie memorized. I’m a sap for it.

Palin is just another Evangelical who thinks American needs to be ‘saved’. It’s a fringe opinion (about 10%), but they all vote, and they know how to use wedge issues to get people to sign up. The problem is going to be, this will be a fight for the soul of the Republican party. There are those who are pushing for Palin to run against Obama in 2012 (some even want Joe the Plumber to be her running mate). If things go well for Obama I think this country will move permanently to the left and isolate the lunatic fringe, and if the challenges prove to be too great and too much of America becomes too impatient, we could whiplash right back into that whole nightmare scenario of the last 8 years.

Alaska better not declare war on us before they talk to the Iraqis about what happens if you get between us and our oil supply.

Alaska only has something like 495,000 registered voters, and 136,000 voted for McCain. Their voting rate was something like 46% turnout. Kentucky has something like 2,907,000.

But it still looks like they reelected a convicted felon as Senator

I don’t know, 69,000 ballots are still outstanding, I’d hardly assume that it’s over by any means.