When the base of you party includes nimrods who think the earth is 6,000 years old...when your VP candidate apparently believes it is possible to speak in languages nobody but Gawd can understand...when you count on voters who continue to believe there is any debate at all between intelligent design and evolution (no such debate exists, except in the minds of IDers and creationists)...

...when intellectuals are repeatedly referred to as "pointy-headed elitists" and your candidates can't speak the mother tongue without making a hash of it...

...eventually, the majority of Americans who have a lick of common sense are going to wake up and realize that the Yosemite Sam Party may not be the best way to go.

And now, McCain is even trying to out-liberal Obama; his new bailout proposal is even more expensive than the Democratic candidates! Not only is McCain losing moderates, he's even giving conservatives a reason to sit this one out.

Republicans are imploding. The writing was on the wall the day we elected our current Redneck-in-Chief. And I say that as a proud Texan who has spent the last eight years wincing at the thought that the world thinks we're all fumbling idiots.

You're much to hard on yourself. Everyone knew there was nothing lower than a texan long, long before Bush.

notimeforbackup:

You're much to hard on yourself. Everyone knew there was nothing lower than a texan long, long before Bush.

And yet, the country still votes for Texans. Go figure. Besides, we're attracting too many Californians these days. I hear Austin has more sushi bars than barbecue joints now.

It's a damned shame.

Excuse me, Anse, isn't candidate Obama a member of an evangelical church, too? Or was he attending the church only to gain connections? Should we not take his attendance of his church at face value: he is a true believer in the Bible?

Is it okay to cling to religion for political gain? Is it more ethical or somehow better to be a self-serving social climber than to cling to religion because you believe in God? Yet, again, I'll take Obama at his word: he truly believes in the Bible and God.

Candidate Obama intends to bring God into the White House and this does not make him any different, in this particular regard, from Dubbya.

Anse, sir. I'm sorry for your loss.

Plenty of proud, civic minded, good people come from Texas. The south is not entirely populated with strictly literal Creationists, YFZ Mormons, and racist rednecks. Sadly, they are the only ones that shout in front of the microphone.

Good people may be out numbered 48% to 52% in the red states. Sadly, the electorate decides that your state will be counted as Red. Florida and New Mexico are McCain country. As long as you can get enough old people scared of that ( 44 year old ) "young black man", you can win in a retirement state.

Will Texas be forever red? Depends on how much more implosion John McCain and Ms. Palin decide to wreak upon the party of Abraham Lincon. Republicans are good people. Most have just forgotten alot about their true party beliefs and ethics as Americans.

This may be hard for many people to swallow, but it is possible to believe in God and still acknowledge that the overwhelming amount of evidence proves that the world is far more than 6000 years old.

Will Texas be forever red? Depends on how much more implosion John McCain and Ms. Palin decide to wreak upon the party of Abraham Lincon. Republicans are good people. Most have just forgotten alot about their true party beliefs and ethics as Americans.

Good question. Hispanics may be the majority here in another 10 or 20 years. We'll see how it works out.

Despite the tone of my post, this isn't really an attack on people of faith; plenty of religious folks have more sense than the crazy tongue-speaking Christers.

Anse, isn't candidate Obama a member of an evangelical church, too?

Evangelical racist America-hating church. (Obama grins his purple-toothed ugly smirk, reaches into his wallet, and flashes the free pass that the MSM gave him during the primary.)

We are fumbling idiots.

Americans cannot elect a guy who is smarter than them. Their ego will not allow it.

Americans feel good about electing a so called regular guy. It makes them feel that they can be President.

Intelligence is frowned upon by the masses.

Dear ctcadguy,

Bush was a proud C student at Yale, yet he was accepted at Harvard Business School.

McCain graduated 3rd from the bottom at the Navy Academy and was accepted by the US Navy.

Obama graduated was accepted to Columbia U. with an unknown and unreleased SAT and GPA and he was accepted at Harvard Law School.

Who is the smartest or dumbest of them all? While we know the records of the first two people, we are in the dark of the third one. Any illuminating numbers you may give us, ctcadguy?

To use an old expression, I'd say the proof is in the pudding.

I'm sure Barack Obama is a genuine Christian, but as long as you have to be a Christian to run for high office in this country, its absurdly hypocritical to claim anyone is pretending!

Pretense is what is guaranteed to happen in an INQUISITION atmosphere, you fools, which is exaclty what the Cons represent.

I also find it hilarious that these little fascists claim to "defend" God...as if the God of the Universe needed some petty little _#*($ on a power trip to defend him or her or it!

Isn't listening to nonsense 24/7 a brain rape? Doesn't that create mental illness -- when what you hear, the explanations of life, are NONSENSICAL and cannot be applied??

freepeoplearenotequal:

Dear ctcadguy,

Bush was a proud C student at Yale, yet he was accepted at Harvard Business School.

Pays to be a legacy.

freepeoplearenotequal:

McCain graduated 3rd from the bottom at the Navy Academy and was accepted by the US Navy.

Again, pays to be a legacy.

Also, graduation from the Naval Academy is guaranteed commission. Class rank doesn't affect whether or not you get accepted into the Navy. Only that you do manage to graduate.

freepeoplearenotequal:

Obama graduated was accepted to Columbia U. with an unknown and unreleased SAT and GPA and he was accepted at Harvard Law School.

He got accepted into two ivy league schools on a scholarship and w/o the benefit of being a legacy.

So which is the smartest guy? How about the one who got into two prestigious schools on his own merit rather than coasting in on his daddy's connections?

Just a thought.

No, Obama is not an evangelical. In fact, this is one reason some evangelicals question his Christianity, because they think that only evangelicals are true Christians. And you can be a true believer in the Bible without believing that it is word for word true. And hardly any evangelicals take the Bible so literally that they believe the world is only 6000 years old. I've never met anyone who believes dinosaurs coexisted with man.

Oh please. The only reason Bush even got into Yale, and subsequently Harvard is because he comes from a filthy-rich family, and his father didn't want him in the way. The only reason John McCain got into his prestigious naval academy that he nearly failed out of was because his father and grandfather were both four star admirals. Barack Obama got into Harvard, became the first ever african-american editor of the Harvard Law Review, and graduated in the top 10% of his class. McCain and Bush got free rides from nepotism (a sort of family-friendly form of "cronyism"), and still could barely hack it.