Houses for sale by owner in Florida...

Ah well, that kind of madness worked for you Bit, back when GWB ruled the world. His approval rating, and that kind of fact-less thinking, have been declining for about 4 years though.

As has that of the Democrat run Congress... Hadn't you noticed?

You have a higher burden now. You can't just insist crap, if you actually want to win back the country. You can't just pretend "Real Americans" outnumber .. ah, real Americans.

I suspect that burden will be light indeed in four years... as it was after four years of Carter.

And there are deeper problems. For instance, the Hispanic vote. McCain got low number among Hispanics(He was the favorite son of a state with heavy Hispanic population, so the numbers could be even lower). McCain got trounced in Southern California, and worst, he got horrible results in the Rio Grande Region in Texas(There are counties there where Obama got more than 80% of the vote) and he lost the major cities of the state(San Antonio, Dallas, Houston, Austin, El Paso), with the exception of Fort Worth.

Without Texas, Florida, New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, California and others states with heavy Hispanic population you have zero chances of winning the White House. And zero chances of having a majority on Congress.

You have a higher burden now. You can't just insist crap, if you actually want to win back the country. You can't just pretend "Real Americans" outnumber .. ah, real Americans.

(For anyone interested, an economic analysis: CRA and Fannie and Freddie as betes noire

No one ever forced banks to loan money to people who could not afford it.

That defense has been debunked so damned often, it's not worth my time to go into it.

By how much did he win each state?

Bit, do us all a favor. Tell yourself anything at all that makes you feel better.

Translation: "I have no argument to that point."

Epic fail, anjin.

President Bush to the intelligence briefer who warned him "Bin Laden determined to strike inside the US". on Aug. 6, 2001.

Yep. And that's been debunked, also, but since you clearly need the help, I'll make an exception... That was one report of many... all of which contradicted each other, and none of which were actionable. And guess who ignored the threat for years prior? Well, ignored, is perhaps over-brad... he did treat the first attack as a criminal matter... We see how well that worked.

Back to watching your Olberman reruns.

It was the Republicans who failed to respond correctly to the threats posed by Extreme Islam?

Oh, wait.. wasn't Clinton in office, there?

"Ok, you've covered your ass"

President Bush to the intelligence briefer who warned him "Bin Laden determined to strike inside the US". on Aug. 6, 2001. The President was vacationing at his ranch in Crawford. He decided to stay on vacation for the rest of the month.

The memo warned that al-Qaida terrorists were in the United States and possibly making "preparations for hijackings and other types of attacks."

Here is a link to the memo:

http://fas.org/irp/cia/product/pdb080601.pdf

Asked and answered...

Available from a variety of sources:

Appearing before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, the man once dubbed "The Maestro" said he had found a flaw in the "critical functioning structure that defines how the world works". "I don't know how significant or permanent it is but I have been very distressed by that fact," Mr Greenspan said.

"I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organisations, specifically banks and others, were such that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms."

Asked by committee chairman Henry Waxman if he was saying his world view was "not working", Mr Greenspan said: "Absolutely, precisely. You know, that's precisely the reason I was shocked, because I have been going for 40 years or more with very considerable evidence that it was working exceptionally well."

The rest of us have a lot of work to do cleaning up the frigging disaster you created.

Aha.

It was the Republicans who failed to respond correctly to the threats posed by Extreme Islam?

Oh, wait.. wasn't Clinton in office, there?

And as for F&F, wasn't Frank Raines Gliespie and that crowd, all Democrat appointees? And whose idea was it to force banks into providing loans to people who couldn't afford it?

Who brought this disaster again? You're about to relearn that lesson. Sad part is that so many have to have their lives destroyed to get there.

FWIW, after about 30 years as a Republican I've decided to de-register to an independent. The interesting question might be how the Republicans should re-invent to get me back - if they want me! They might not, because I make things like a respect for science a condition.

I stopped by here this morning because I remembered discussions I had with other Outside the Beltway commentators on what was 'real' conservatism in the old days ... and I thought I remembered people here buying Bush and his Congress (2000-2006?) as the real thing.

Got any "Republican Reinvention" threads planned?

Well James, that's the problem with this democracy stuff ... people get votes, and a lot of people live in California.

Yes, but a lot of people who live in California vote Republican. Their votes don't count under the current system, just as those of Texas Democrats don't.

Any way you slice it, Obama won this election. My point is that the Electoral College -- specifically the winner-take-all model that every state but Maine and Nebraska use -- distorts the outcome. Obama won the national popular vote 52.6 to 46.1 but the Electoral College 67.8 to 32.2. (Ironically, in this case, about the margin he got in California.) He took several states by razor thin margins, not 100-0.

But I decided to be fair, and clamp down on that thought ... until I saw "its 55 Electoral votes grossly distorts the picture."

Well James, that's the problem with this democracy stuff ... people get votes, and a lot of people live in California.

Until the SP pick. All I could say before that was judgement, and then suddenly, experience didn't matter. McCain threw his own best arguement away, and then came the KCouric interview...where she proved how totally unprepared she was for the job (of being President, which is her only requirement as Vice)

Agree fully. Indeed, that was my reaction the moment I heard about the Palin selection.

Aside from being young and hot-for-a-politician, though, Palin undercuts McCain’s entire campaign theme. She’s got less political experience and less foreign policy experience than Obama.

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I’d never heard of Palin before the VP buzz started on the blogs a while back. She’s supposedly an excellent campaigner. And, obviously, her youth and gender make her a bold pick. Ultimately, though, I think she doesn’t make sense. If you’re running on “the country’s security is too important to be run by neophytes,” you can’t have one as next in line.

While Joe Biden was, twice, an awful presidential candidate, he’s a plausible president. Sarah Palin is not.

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She’s going to make us pine for the days of Dan Quayle, methinks.

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We’ll see what the reaction turns out to be. I’m certainly not the target audience. But McCain’s first big decision is, in my mind, a truly awful one. Obama went traditional but steady in Biden. It wasn’t a bold pick but it was one that butressed his claim that he has judgment even though he lacks experience. McCain has done the opposite here.

The fact that McCain felt he needed a Hail Mary pass to begin with, though, would indicate to me that Palin wasn't the main issue.