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THE CHANGE WE DESERVE
All that can really be said is that Americans deserve all the change they'll get.
 
John Reid

GOOD NEWS ABOUT 2012
Obama will finally have a record to run against.

Michael P. Tolocka
Baton Rouge, Louisiana

LOOKING FORWARD
May I be the first to suggest Jindal / Palin in 2012!

Ben Grasmuck
Clovis, California

AMERICA ALONE?
Well, America is no longer alone.

Doug

STICKING IT TO US
Scritch, scritch, tsk. What’s that sound? It's the sound of liberals scraping the
 "Dissent is the highest form of patriotism" bumperstrips off their Volvos and Subarus.

Bill Manuel
Spokane, Washington

LORD OF THE RINGS
Given the disastrous eight years of Bush, combined with a terrible candidate in
John McCain, the bulk of the American people would have voted for Sauron yesterday.
And maybe they did.  Time will tell.
 
John Fagan
Lemoyne, Pennsylvania

 IS McCAIN A REPUBLICAN?
As Senator, McCain has one more chance to become a conservative Republican.

The big question is will he or won't he?

Funny thing is that we already know the answer.

Just like McCain reached across the aisle to help elect Obama, he will
continue to reach across the aisle to make it look like he's a
compassionate conservative when, in fact, he's really a moderate Democrat.

Whether it's about illegal immigration or global warming or (First
Amendment) campaign finance reform, we know where McCain stands.

Ed Buzzi
Wequetequock, Connecticut

THE TWO-ISSUE CANDIDATE
McCain actually had the rug pulled out from underneath his pet "issues"
twice, once with the surge and once with energy/drilling.  He must feel
like the unluckiest man in the world that his two best issues were
rendered afterthoughts by (1) our unexpected success in Iraq and (2) the
unexpected collapse in oil prices.  Even more reason to think that an
effective candidate needs to have a consistent and persuasive worldview,
not just an "advantage" on certain issues.

Mark Kinghorn

IT WAS THE ECONOMY, STUPID
You are missing another significant point:  McCain thought this would be a
National Security election in which he would be confortable in the
discussion.  Instead it became an election about the Economy in which McCain
had no clue on how to lead the discussion.

Michael P. Amodio

So, if we're willing to admit that a Democratic win means that people
really do want an Obama-Pelosi Reid-Acorn government, will your reader
be willing to admit that we really didn't want it a year from now when
Pelosi's Congress has mid-teens approval ratings, Obama's honeymoon has
turned into an approval nightmare and we're back to good old 65% wrong
track poll results?

Dominick Schirripa
New York, NY

PRESIDENT DINKINS
Fear not, Mark.  Those of us who grew up in the New York area are very
well acquainted with that particular strain of African-American
politician who mixes gentle soothing speech with quiet connections to
leftist radical maniacs.

I'm referring to David Dinkins.  First African-American mayor of New
York City from 1990-1993.  Remember who replaced him?

Andrew Berman

BLACK AND WHITE
Anyone notice-
 
The states with the highest black population went for McCain -  Louisiana,
Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina. The states with the highest white population
 went for Obama - Vermont, Maine, R.I., Conn., Washington.
 
Maybe those Southern blacks know something the Yankees don't?
 
Watch for white-guilt to continue its European-style self-destruction - reparations
bills in Congress, "official apologies", concessions to Islam/sharia law, relaxation
(if such were possible) of immigration restrictions (including HIV status), hate
laws/restrictions of free speech with prosecution of opinion (e.g. Mark Steyn and
the Canadian Human Rights Commissions), &c, &c, ad nauseam.
 
SG

WE CHASED THE HISPANICS AWAY
I give Bush and McCain some credit for recognizing early that Hispanics are
a key to a Republican majority. Largely Catholic and family oriented, in
states like Texas without significant welfare infrastructure, they are a
demographic that pivots against the Obama clan. Unfortunately, we chose to
criminalize work and chase these folks into Obama's network. Bush took 40%
of Hispanics, how many did McCain get?  And conservatives hate his for his
immigration policy, which was left of Bush! I looked up at Montana and
said, why are we losing? Hello.  We chased the hard-workers into the arms of
the dead-beats. What a coalition. And that delta 5% is why we are losing
many states tonight by narrow margins

Ken Gustafson

NOT EUROPE YET
Re: His Majesty’s Loyal Opposition
You wrote:

 “The Republicans lost this election. I disagree with Lisa. I think we
are near a point at which America joins the rest of the west as a
center-left society - that's to say, a society whose assumptions about
the role of government and the size of the state are far closer to
Continental social democracies than to the Founding Fathers.”

Like hell it is.  It is still the bastion of freedom that every
oppressed person in the world looks to, and the country that every
ambitious immigrant wants to move to.  "Yankee go home and take me with
you."

 I agree completely that we should not be sore losers and fall victim to
Obama Derangement Syndrome.  We should support our new President in the
many struggles he faces.  But neither should we give up our ideals of
limited, Constitutional government and free markets. 

 The Republicans did not lose the election - the Democrats won it fair
and square.  John McCain fought hard and well.  Forty-eight percent of
the vote is a lot of votes!  George Bush's unpopularity had me thinking
that a generic Republican candidate would be lucky to break 40%.  John
McCain, obviously, is far superior to a hypothetical generic candidate.
At any rate, the Democrats won the election by nominating someone with
exceptional political and personal gifts. 

The pendulum will continue to swing, about every 12 years, between
liberal and conservative fads in the electorate.  We should start our
work as members of the loyal opposition now.

Larry Siegel

A BIT OF DERANGEMENT IS GOOD
I have to respectfully disagree with your assessment that there's
no future success in Obama Derangement Syndrome.  The Loony Left has been at
it for eight years and proved last night that it works.  The Left's constant
criticisms (no matter how loony) of both the Administration and Republicans
in general have a way of sticking with a poorly educated/informed
electorate.  We both know that the Brits still stand by the "yellowcake"
story and that hundreds of thousands of American soldiers went to war in
Iraq wearing chemical weapon suits because of a real threat, but the
American people believe "Bush lied......."  I'm going to spend the next
couple days thinking up catchy slogans, it can be kind of fun.
 
Keep up the good work.  I loved America Alone (even if it scared the  heck
out of me) and the back page of National Review is always my first read.
 
Thanks for all your hard work.
 
Joe Morgan

NOT AS BAD AS GERMANY!
"I think we are near a point at which America joins the rest of the west as
a center-left society ..."
 
Don't be so pessimistic. The days of disenchantment are close. McCain did a
lot better than Bush 41 or Dole and look at the extremly hostile environment
he faced.
 
I am writing from Germany and let me ensure you: there is a huuuuge gap
mentalitywise between the grantees of redistributive change here and the
average american !
 
Here’s to McCain!

Joachim Nikolaus Steinhöfel
Hamburg, Germany

HIP REPLACEMENT
Wow, for the first time EVER, I'm going to disagree with you!  I don't think we have
gone left at all. We've gone "cool".  I think America has become a celebrity-driven
society.  TV comedians, People and US magazines, reality shows....this was an
American Idol presidential election with the added bonus: white people were absolved
of guilt.  It feels as if we are in The Truman Show now.  I knew when O secured the
nomination he would beat McCain, simply because of his Rasputin-like ability to
mesmerize, and the fact that he is charismatic and the media was behind him.  It was
a forgone conclusion. 

It has nothing whatever to do with ideology.....ask anyone who voted for him
(especially the youth vote) to explain the difference between capitalism and
socialism as it relates to our society and you will hear crickets.  These people
speak in sound bites they learn on TV. I have a young adult kids and they tell me
this constantly.  They say "you just don't get it mom, these people do not think,
they "feel", and they worship what their peers tell them to worship" (I somehow
raised conservatives!).  So I  am not worried about our becoming Euro-socialized, IF
someone on our side with a little charisma and "it" factor can educate the masses in
the next 2-4 years.  It can't be Sarah.  I agree with Geraldo that Tina Fey
singlehandedly lost it for McCain by ridiculing Sarah into the status of
caricature.  Just as Bush became ChimpHitlerBush on the blogs and latenight TV,
Sarah was finished off early.  She has to work to rehab herself, and she needs to
soften up her rightwingishness a bit.

Anyway, I agree with you completely in your worldview, but on this one, I think you
just don't get the "cool, hip factor"....most Americans are ignorant of the issues,
and do not think on these levels at all.

Donna Slocomb
Chicago area

IF IT CAN HAPPEN TO THATCHER…
"In a grim media-cultural environment, the temptation for American
conservatism is to be seduced into becoming one of those ever so mildly
right-of-left-of-right-of-left-of-center parties they have in Europe."

If it can happen to the party of Margaret Thatcher, it most certainly can
happen here.  You can detect it in the way David Brooks, Peggy Noonan,
Christopher Buckley, et al, treated Sarah Palin.

No, we don't need Obama Derangement Syndrome (we had Clinton Derangement
Syndrome and it didn't accomplish anything).  But we do need to point out
loudly and plainly every instance in which the Obama Administration so much
as nods toward the redistributionist, pacifist, anti-libertarian and
anti-traditionalist expectations we have of him.

Stuart Creque

LET’S GET IT OVER WITH
I think you're right about this country moving to the center left model of Europe
But if there's an expert on unsustainability, it's you.  Even the entitlement
programs we have now are not so many decades from collapse under the weight of their
debt spending.  More programs will accelerate it.

We'll become center left, and then we'll have a worthless currency and a bankrupt
government.  And then we won't be center left any more.  Not the path I'd have
picked, but it what it is.

Matt Springer
Moraga, California

TIME TO MOBILIZE
To hell with the loyal opposition - time to mobilize the resistance.

WLC

AS LOYAL AS THE DEMS
I plan to be as loyal in opposition as were Democrats to President Bush,
perhaps more so.

David Govett
Davis, California

WHINING IS FOR LOSERS …
You seem to be the one conservative who understands that conservatives need to get
over all the media bias, Hollywood liberals, ACORN, et. al., whining. It doesn't
matter one damn bit if any of that stuff is in play.

What is operative is those are the arguments that losers make. They complain about
circumstances. They bitch about unfairness. They do everything but make a coherent
case for why people should vote for them beyond "we're-not-the-other-guy."

Conservatives need Alec Baldwin to give 'em the "third prize is you're fired"
speech, and post-haste. I chose to be a conservative because, philosophical
considerations notwithstanding, I was attracted to its winning philosophy. Now, all
I hear is the whining of f***ing losers. Buck up, mother****ers! (Pardon my French.)

For what it's worth, I love your writing.

Brian Moore
Covington, LA

… BUT LET’S KEEP FIGHTING
While I agree with your statement that "nobody wants to hear
[about ACORN] now," I think it would be a colossal mistake on the part of
conservatives to give up fighting these issues because they're unpopular or
would make us seem ungracious in defeat. Part of the reason the Democrats
are in control of 2 of 3 branches of our government (and, alas, will
probably control all 3 by the end of Obama's first term) is that they are
not concerned about looking gracious. They fight, legally and illegally,
fair and unfair, for what they believe in. Granted, that essentially means
that they're fighting solely for power, which is the only thing they truly
believe in, but it cannot be argued at this point that their fight has been
more effective.

I don't want to see conservatives cheat or partake in
illegal activities to win. If that's what it takes, it's too high a cost.
But I don't care if the media calls us crybabies or racist, or whatever
epithets they can come up with. I want us to FIGHT. That means NOT backing
down on ACORN. NOT backing down on fundraising fraud, and NOT giving Obama,
Pelosi, Reid, et. al. a pass on ANYTHING.

G. Andrew Duthie

THE PETE-AND-DUD ANGLE
You wrote, "In a grim media-cultural environment, the temptation for
American conservatism is to be seduced into becoming one of those ever
so mildly right-of-left-of-right-of-left-of-center parties they have in
Europe." This remark reminds me of a routine done by the late Dudley
Moore and the late Peter Cook in which they were discussing the
similarities between England and the United States, to wit,

Peter: They have their two party system.
Dudley: How does that work?
Peter: Well they have their Republican Party which is very much like our
Conservative Party.
Dudley: Yes?
Peter: And then they have their Democratic Party which is very much like
our Conservative Party.

Craig Allen

P.S. Belated congratulations on winning your case in Canada.

DOWN AND DIRTY
"We should have the fight about conservatism's future vigorously and 
openly — perhaps at Bud's Roadhouse out on Route 137 in lieu of All-
Girl Mud-Wrestling Night."

Can't we have both? I know I could use some cheering up after 
tonight, and how often does one get to spectate an All-Girl Mud-
Wrestling Night whilst having a heated debate over conservative 
ideology. One for the history books my friend. I hope all is as well 
as can be expected under the circumstances. Good luck in the travails 
ahead.

Dave Cole

YOU SOUND LIKE A MULLAH
"In democratic systems, the people are free to screw up their own societies.
An Obama victory would be a tragedy for this country and for the world. It
would be a flight to fantasy and delusion, and a repudiation of the
animating principles of America. It would also be profoundly unbecoming for
the citizenry of a mature republic to vote for therapeutic fatuities like
"hope" and "change". But that is the people's prerogative."

Your elitist condescension is absolutely staggering. You sound like a
mullah issuing a fatwah. When you look around at what Bush has wrought -
9/11, Katrina, Iraq, Afghanistan, Financial collapse, record breaking
inequality, poverty, and division - do you really think you're not the one
operating under a fantastic delusion when you claim that Obama would be
the one to bring tragedy to this country?

What a farce. But keep making predictions and pronouncements. That way I can
know that the opposite is true, because if there's one thing you and your
gang over at the Corner have gotten right, it's being fanatically,
unyieldingly wrong. The exception being, of course, about one thing -
America really is the greatest nation on Earth. (cf. tonight's election
results)

Jordan Weber-Flink

WHO KNOWS WHAT THEY WANT?
If Obama wins, can we admit that that’s what people want? Of course not. 
That would be stupid.  Obama has campaigned on "Change" but
has given almost zero definition to what "change" means.  For all we know,
"change" could mean forcing all the White House security guards to dress
like Space Marines from the movie "Aliens."  Beyond a vague proposal to tax
the rich, and possibly getting chatty with Chavez, what exactly has he
campaigned on?  I'll be damned if I know.

All it'll really mean is that people were already unhappy with Republicans,
and then the frigging financial crisis hit, and so they voted for the other
guy on the ballot.

Cliff Smith

HOW TO TALK LIKE A LIBERAL
The Democrats (and Liberals) are masters at this and Conservatives, are horrible,
(though it may be in large part because the Left has the advantage of the MSM).
Perhaps all Conservatives need to recognize that Ann Coulter, (for whose stridency,
if not her personage, many of my favorites at NRO do not care) was absolutely right
in "How to Talk to a Liberal..."  Never, ever concede the high ground to a Liberal.
Do not hamper your ability to argue the merits of your side stating that your
opponent is well meaning, just misguided.  They are not well meaning. They are
consummate warriors who will stop at nothing; neither vote fraud, ad hominem attacks
nor invasions of privacy which would make Nixon blush, to garner and keep power.
Perhaps McCain could never win, but he, just like Mr. Bush and his weak and tardy
response to the "war lies" and the "16 words", failed to articulate and defend his
positions and relentlessly point out the flaws of his opponents.  He let Obama get
away with his "95% of American's will get tax cuts" until the waning days of the
campaign, for God's sake.  As you have pointed out he is a personally brave and
honorable man, but at his core, McCain is a compromiser and ill suited to wage the
kind of bruising battle that was needed.  He needed to do nothing dishonorable, he
merely needed to tell the truth of who and what Barack Obama was.  All John McCain
had to do was use Obama's own words from his two books and numerous interviews to
tell America who Barack Obama was.  He did not, and America is the worse for it. 
 
Michael Hutter
Orlando, Florida

THE CORE OF CONSERVATISM
"We need to rediscover a coherent conservatism and find someone who can
pitch it to sufficient numbers of people."

I practically *begged* Jonah, Rich Lowry and Lopez to pursue that earlier
on in this election cycle.  My sense is Republicans shot themselves with
their irresponsible spending, and Conservatives shot themselves by allowing
the definition of "conservative" to morph into either a mean spirited
personna (the face of Tom Delay), or some lofty philosophical thing with no
bearing on reality.

You are correct ... the liberals control the language.  That's what happens
when they have the entire media apparatus beating the message drum day
after day.  That's why a coherent conservative message can't use the tired
words and phrases of the past.  No more talk of "rugged
self-reliance" (which now means "selfishly depriving people of lesser
means"), or "strict constructionist judges" (which means "bigoted and
hateful legal process"), and no more talk of "culture of life" (which is
taken to mean "puritanical domination by hateful religious-right bigots").

Like her or not, Sarah Palin tapped into what I suspect is near the core of
what American conservatism is all about.  She embodied the message by
living it, and she didn't have to use worn-out phrases to convey it.
Discover the essence of that and package it into a positive message, and
hammer that message day after day after day.

Don Bagwell

START THINKING LIKE A JEW
"A narrow McCain victory...would be bad for our already diseased
politics and seems likely to unhinge even further the Democratic Party
base, which isn't good for civilized political discourse."
Well, not exactly (although I appreciate that you are pointing out
something important). Granting liberals victory won't alleviate their
unhinged condition one iota. The liberals will be just as miserable a
week from now after an Obama victory as they were a week ago. What makes
a liberal a liberal is not a set of positive principles that can be
acted upon (otherwise Obama would take care of his starving family
members), but hatred of conservatives. In this respect, the liberals and
Palestinians and Black Liberationists share the same misery: just as
liberals think crushing conservatives will bring them nirvana,
Palestinians think annihilating the Jews will bring Morning in Acco, and
a lot of blacks believe that a big reparations check will somehow
alleviate their misery. But of course it won't. If America became the
Soviet Union II tomorrow, the Leftists would do what they did in Soviet
Union I: they would turn on each other. The morning after all the Jews
in Israel were murdered, G-d forbid, every Islamic fanatic who yearned
and prayed for that outcome would wake up as miserable as yesterday, and
turn his eyes toward Brooklyn as the place where the people reside who
deny him any peace of mind. The blacks who lived dysfunctionally
yesterday would live just as dysfunctionally tomorrow. And the Hollywood
types who can't sleep tonight won't be able to sleep tomorrow night. All
that an Obama victory will achieve is to make everyone more miserable.
Lord forgive them, for they know not what ails them.
So don't fret over civilized political discourse: that's gone forever.
Since you're fond of making comparisons of different groups of people to
Jews, maybe it's time to start thinking like a Jew. Principle Number
One: In every generation, someone rises up to destroy you. Or, as Ronald
Reagan put it,  Freedom is never more than one generation away from
extinction. That's the gig, and you just have to deal with it.

Ezra Marsh
Baltimore

COMING UP!
Theme for rebuilding: supporting  practical democracy, the people's right to choose.

Attack the cluster of anti-democratic issues on the Dem's agenda:

1.  Card Check - assault on the secret ballot
2.  Attack on DOMA -  attempt to thwart State level democratic limits on gay marriage
3.  Proposed federal roll back of state legislated limits on abortion
4.  Fairness Doctrine - attempt to stifle political speech
Judicial activists - further assaults on popular will.

The common theme of all these liberal initiatives is the erosion of the people's
right to choose, either through their elected representatives or through initiative
and referenda.

Combine the struggle over "values" issues with the over-arching opposition to
anti-democratic liberal elitism.

Ray Gagner
Laupahoehoe, Hawaii

AISLE CROSSERS
How long before tasty treats of chairmanships are offered in exchange 
for a walk across the aisle??

Kenton McCarthy
Phoenix, Arizona

YOU ARE SCARY
"In democratic systems, the people are free to screw up their own societies. An
Obama victory would be a tragedy for this country and for the world. It would be a
flight to fantasy and delusion, and a repudiation of the animating principles of
America. It would also be profoundly unbecoming for the citizenry of a mature
republic to vote for therapeutic fatuities like "hope" and "change". But that is the
people's prerogative."

Holy buzz. And you think Obama's scary? I think you are.

Are you saying that Americans are stupid? Are you saying that Americans are unable
to make an informed decision? Do you think Americans are like sheep, led to the
ballot box by the insidious liberal press? Does that make you an elitist?

"A repudiation of the animating principles of America"? Don't you think that's just
a wee bit over-the-top? Maybe just a little?

Nick Muson

THEY’LL LIKE US! THEY’LL REALLY LIKE US!
The [British] Telegraph's editorial for 5 November concludes:

". [Obama] could transform America's view of itself and the world's view of America,
which has rarely been more reviled. Restoring his country's reputation as a force
for good in the world: that is the most powerful change that Barack Obama, 44th
president of the United States of America, can bring about."

Naive dreaming.

America's reputation has been in the rubbish heap since the 1960s.  Hollywood, the
music industry, the news media and university professors have been unrelenting in
condemning the U.S. as the primary source of evil in the world.  Young Americans,
and all of Europe take their cues from the entertainment,news and education empires.
 Having Democrats, Carter and Clinton in the White House and having Democrats
control Congress has not halted the drumbeat of anti-Americanism coming from the
holy trinity of Leftist America.  Indeed, when the Democrats are in power, they only
amplify the "America is awful" chants.

The left-wing trinity has a psychological loathing of American success, tradition
and even identity that runs far deeper than their leftist ideology - They are like
the spoiled grandchild who resents the hard-won success of Granddad and just want to
burn down Granddad's farmhouse. 

Obama's election changes only the president, not those who beg the world to hate
America.

Your biggest fan in France

J Gildard

LET’S ROLL!
To state that we must focus on what went wrong is looking backward. 
 
I think for all of us true conservatives (not neo-cons or rino's) we know
that the Republican party became a party of big government.  That part of
the Republican establishment chose McCain.  There is nothing to examine
here.
 
We don't need to pitch conservative values to just a sufficient number of
people, but rather begin a new conservative revolution.  Its going to take
some time but let us get going now, today; enthusiastically, committed, and
inspired. 
 
I'm ready!  Let's roll!

Mike Nadolski
Arlington Heights, Illinois

MEDIA’S VESTED INTEREST
Re: Unreadability in defense of liberalism is no vice
You've wondered why journalists are sympathetic to the nanny state?
You've got to be kidding.  Consider: if the Constitution were followed
to the letter, most of the power in this country would belong to the
people, the cities, and the states.  I would be reading my local paper
for news that mattered, and only listen to national news occasionally.
Now, because the Federal government has its tentacles in so many areas,
I have watch cable news and read national magazines and papers, in order
to find out what stupid thing is comings next, and how to protect myself
from it.  Journalist in those news rooms are now national figures, and
the bigger the Federal government becomes, the bigger they are.  What,
you thought that some of them long for the days when they'd be
collecting news from the Podunkville County Courthouse?
 
Beyond that, of course, are personal biases and ignorance.  To be
generous, some journalists are a bit like ER nurses - all they see are
the extreme, nasty cases.  Unlike a good nurse, however, they cannot do
anything about them... except, perhaps, opine.  "Here's this problem -
why doesn't someone do something about it?  I don't know what to do, I
don't know how things work -- let's just call for the Feds to handle
it!"
 
Finally, and most cynically, consider this?  Where does the campaign
money end up being spent?  Forget about designer clothes and faux greek
columns.  The vast majority goes into advertising.  I believe that that
media outlets have a real interest in a polarized and energized
electorate -- that's what generates big donations.  That puts more money
in the media outlet's pocket.  I know, I know -- there's supposed to be
a "Chinese Wall" between management and the news room.  Well, if
reporters don't know when their whole industry is in decline, their even
denser than they appear to be
 
Harold Norris

PALIN IS A DISGRACE
Please spare us all any more talk about Sarah Palin.  She cost McCain a ton of votes
of moderates and indies across the nation. The woman is a national disgrace and
should be banished to the Arctic circle...

Charlie Delano

DEMS FOR PALIN
Amen! My small democratic county in rural SW Indiana went around + 2000 votes out of
slightly over 5000 cast for Mccain-Palin. We're conservative democrats who voted for
McCain-Palin. Mostly for Palin. BEWARE LAKE COUNTY INDIANA . They run a very crooked
operation up there near Gary Indiana of course close to Chicago. We voted for
Regan, Bush 1, Clinton, and Clinton again so we're not partisans although registered
Democrats. We would vote for Palin again. I hope she has a future nationally in the
republican party. The media will be in full swoon now if that's even more possible.
This camapign starting with the primarys has shown the DEATH OF JOURNALISM BY THE
NATIONAL MEDIA. They started with the Clintons in the primarys and moved onto
McCain-Palin.

Phillip Norrish

DINGBAT
Your still pushing the snowbilly dingbat after this debacle!
 
Get a brain guy and give it up.

John Ternes

QUAYLED
Writing from the slightly more conservative Massachusetts - just wanted to thank you
for your writing on this campaign.  You along with Rush accurately reflect the mood
of all of us.  I love Sarah Palin but I don't think she is fit to lead the
movement.  The media has sufficiently Quayled her.  I think it's Jindal.  We begin
the fight today. 

Aaron Smith
Massachusetts

FREE TO SOAR
Look on the bright side. She will now be untethered to an anchor and is now free to soar, Lord 
knows we'll need her.

Kenton McCarthy

LIVE FREE, OR MAYBE NOT
I guess Dixville Notch chose "Die".

Fanci Coyle
Aledo, Texas

DEATH VALLEY
The explanation for Shaheen is simple: New England, and much of the Northeast, has
become Death Valley for the GOP.
All kinds of candidates lose here--conservatives or moderates. The only ones who
seem to hold on are the two Maine libs and Judd Gregg of NH--and he should look over
his shoulder when he's up again.

Steve
Cape Cod

MESSING UP NH
Once again, thanks for keeping the ex-NH resident corner readers abreast of
the political climate up there. New Hampshire would still be the bright spot
in the north east were it not for all the liberal MA residents who moved up
there BECAUSE THE DEMS KEEP MISSING UP MASSACHUSETTS. Forgive me.
A little election night angst.

Jared Watson

MESSING UP UTAH
I live in Utah and can tell you this much from personal experience watching
upstart Californian's moving in and attempting to blend into the local
populace.  They should stop trying, they stick out.  Same applies to
holograms.  We would see through them in seconds, pun intended.

Jonathan Sabin

LAST WORD
Thanks for all  levity and entertainment you provided through election season.  It
was always going to to be a tough haul and while I think McCain could have run a
much better campaign, he did run a pretty honorable campaign, all things considered.
 But he only gets to take his honor back to the Senate.

Your contributions to the Corner continue to stand out.  And I really loved America
Alone. 

Keep up the good work.  We begin the run for 2012 tomorrow!

Jason Corrigan