How refreshingly gratifying to see that logic, tolerance and compassion is found where you least expect it.

We loved Hillary because at heart she’s more like McCain, a real maverick. She’s worked closely with REpublicans for the good of the country. She understands Post-partisanship and she is not limited by her (ex)Democratic Party affiliation. She never was!

This primary has showed us that we can work together and the Pumas may provide that bridge between Real Democrats (not extremists) and Republicans. We can start building that bridge by taking down all the obstacles to Women’s equality. All this means is…RESPECT for women and we’ve seen proof that it’s likely to come from the OTHER SIDE….amazing what strange bedfellows we’ve found along the way to our shattered dreams, eh?

May you and family enjoy good health and prosperity. And I’ll never forget where Sen. Hillary Clinton got her respect from:

“I have no doubt that Sen. Hillary Clinton will make a good President” —Sen. John McCain, 2005,
in Bahgdad with HRC interviewed by Tim Russert!

Pumas for McCain/Palin ’08

Nobama

Thank you for a great column here outlining your ethical platform and limit of political tolerance!
It should be a “must” read for all candidates of either party!

Look, even though I cannot stand with this corrupt Dem Party and have now registered as an Independent after 30 years, I know in my heart I am a Democrat — just not one of these corrupt folks that seem to have taken over the Party.

No one will see this comment at ths point probably, but just for posterity, here it is…my work doing GOTV phone calls for many states really taught me a great deal. Red state, blue state is crap — we all need to find common ground and stop ripping each other apart — the only people who make money that way are politicans, lobbyists and corporate interests. The American people do not benefit.

I am hopeful that this travesty of an election year will awaken people on both sides of the aisle and encourage a realignment of the parties.

Extremists of either stripe don’t necessary help anyone. Whether or not you were a Hillary supporter, I think we can agree that a) she got the shaft and b) her hard work and grit and preparedness really earned him some respect she might not otherwise have gotten.

I think she opened quite a few people’s eyes to look at her, and all of us, in new ways.

I’d like to think that her courageous journey was not for naught if at least that much was achieved.

I am probably everything that most of the posters on this sight abhor; pro-life, pro-gun, smallest government possible, major tax reform, free market anarchist, slightly evangelical, etc. But, I have found myself for the longest time starting to sympathize with the Puma’s, Democrats who supported Hillary, and ironically the Feminist movement. This is probably as strange for you as it is me.

Here is the rub, you got hosed. But it was not that you got hosed it was the way you got hosed. The Conservatives and most Hillary supporters saw Obama for what he really is, a product of the media and Chicago Southside politics. Two very raunchy and despicable points of origin. Hillary, bless her Liberal soul, was a worthy adversary for Republicans, but most of us weren’t trying to destroy her. We wanted her around, because she made us evaluate our Conservative principles and reminded us what it is to be a Conservative. in some ways you could say we need her around as an adversary.

Obama, he is something different and very dangerous. He smacks of to much socialism and inner city solutions to suburban and rural America. Try running a socialist collective in the South, the West, or the Mid West and you will have your butt handed to you.

The point is for now we have common ground and a lot on our side do understand what happened to you and even sympathize for you. Yes, there are those in our midst that will use your vote as nothing more than a political advantage, we are not perfect. But at the end of the day Governor Palin’s candidacy and the attacks she is enduring in just 4 days has made me think about what all of you were saying all along.

For now, vote with us. We can resume our battle in 12′or maybe find more common ground in the future. I am open to either possibility. This country has a major identity crisis happening and our votes are the ones that are going to steer it in the correct direction, away from Obama.

C.T.

The trolls think that they are making posters here upset…but really the last laugh is on them.

They help bring up information other lurkers and posters may not yet know about or have forgotten.

It keeps those debate points from being buried in the archives.

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Welcome to the board Mamatx,

Please feel free to do more than lurk.

From the funny to the profound. No matter the political party. It is always interesting to read the impressions this election has inspired.

We need to demand more from these fools

Nominate Michael Nutter or Sheila Jackson Lee, why don’t you. I’ll vote for them in a heartbeat. Watch me.

Certainly the late, great Stephanie Tubbs Jones was a woman of great courage and I would have been happy to vote for her. I am devastated that she is gone.

I will not tolerate these kinds of accusations. There is absolutely no basis for them.

That is absolutely your right.

If he speaks to you — who knows why — great.

But don’t begrudge us the research we’ve done or the experiences we’ve had this year which lead us to our decision.

Hillary and Bill keep talking about what a great patriot McCain is and how much he loves this country so don’t act like he is the devil. He is not my first choice — he is simply the best of what is left to choose from.

That is your doing, and the DNC’s doing, not ours.