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I’m so glad it’s over. I really and truly am. I’m beyond tired and I think I’m going down with a cold.

I have some stuff to say to a few people so here are my thoughts:

To John McCain: I had initially decided to be complimentary to you after the election. You can forget that now. After watching you do nothing for the last few days while aides in your campaign “anonymously” made false allegations about Governor Palin, I think you’re nothing more than the RINO worm that you’ve always been. While I can appreciate and respect your service to our country in the military, I think you utterly suck for not immediately going out in front of the press and defending Governor Palin.

Let me be very blunt here, John. Without Governor Sarah Palin you would have lost by 20 points. You’ve always been a RINO and very few people in the Republican party base were excited about your candidacy. In fact you only got in because Huckabee and Romney split the conservative/evangelical vote.

Governor Palin was the one who brought in the money and enthusiasm and that irritating fact is probably why you have not risen to her defense. It must gall you that it was she and not you who we were all really rooting for, John.

Yes, it took balls for you to pick Governor Palin. But if you hadn’t you would still have gone down in flames. Why? Because you never understood who you were running against. But Governor Palin understood Barack Obama and knew what it would take to beat him. You might have won if you’d listened to her.

At this point, John, I have no use for you. Go back and spend your last days in the senate. You will be forever remembered as the man who let his running mate take a beating in the press by his own aides AFTER the election.

What a disgusting spectacle, John, and what an ugly way to end your career.

To President-Elect Obama: Congratulations on your victory. I take my place as part of the loyal opposition but I wish you well in your duty to keep America safe in a hostile world.

And I wish you well trying to manage the expectations of your zombie army…oops…I mean your cultists…er…voters…well whatever the right word is for some of them. You see, Mr. President-Elect, you aren’t a politician to a bunch of these folks.

You’re a messiah to some of these people and sometimes loyal followers can quickly morph into hated foes when they don’t get what they want from their messiah figure. Good luck with managing their expectations, I hope they don’t turn on you when you can’t deliver everything they’re hoping for.

By now the initial glow of your election victory is already beginning to fade. People are coming at you left and right as you try to pick your cabinet and the partisan politics are nauseatingly vicious. Get used to it. This is what you signed on for and this is the easy part. It only gets more intense from this point on.

Take a good look in the mirror. Remember what Bill Clinton and George W. Bush looked like before they took office? And remember what they looked like when they left office? It’s all going to happen to you too. The hip, young looking 47 year old you see in the mirror is going to age 3-4 years for every year he spends in office. So say goodbye to what’s left of your youth, Mr. President-elect. It’s the price you pay for going into the history books.

And there’s even more fun stuff to look foward to…even as I type this you are being watched by America’s enemies in other parts of the world. They are sizing you up and looking for weakness and hesitation. After 8 years of a very strong president – who did whatever he thought necessary to protect the security of the United States – our enemies finally smell blood in the water.

They’ve seen videos of you and your silly “yes we can” and “hopenchange” slogans and they think you can be rolled. Watch what you say, Mr. President-elect, and be careful of the messages you send deliberately or inadvertantly. The enemies of the United States probably already have you pegged as a light-weight who is out of his depth.

You better move fast if you’re going to convince them otherwise. If you don’t then the United States might end up facing the gravest possible consequences because of your hesitation or mistakes. You have quite a lot riding on your shoulders, I hope you’re up for it for the next four to eight years.

Good luck and God bless, Mr. President-elect.

To Vice-President Elect Joe Biden: Joe, take a bow. You have to be the luckiest politician on the planet to be where you are right now and your luck may take you even further (albeit at the expense of somebody else). But don’t ever forget that you’re #2 and that the office you hold isn’t – as another VP once said – worth a bucket of warm piss.

You will not be a strong VP the way Dick Cheney has been. Barack Obama is an authoritarian at heart and will not share power with you. At best you’ll be relegated to the usual funerals and other tedious, miserable VP stuff.

Enjoy all of it. It’s far more than a plagiarizing hack like you deserves.

To Hillary Clinton: You’re screwed now. You’re only hope was a McCain win so you could have another go in 2012. But that’s not going to happen now.  You’re going to end up like Ted Kennedy – a could-have-been-but-never-was.

And you’re going to have to look at the face of the man who beat you on TV all the time and you’re going to have to live with the knowledge that he only defeated you through caucus fraud and other sleazy tactics.

And you’re going to have to live with the knowledge that you only lost by a tiny bit and that your party helped screw you. If it had been you who had been nominated you would probably be the president-elect of the United States.

Wow. Sucks to be you Hillary. For sure.

To Bill Clinton: You’re done too, Bill. You were what the Democrats had to look to when they wanted to remember what it was like to be in power. But now Obama is king and you’re just the left-over from the 90s who couldn’t keep his pants zipped up. Who cares about an ailing former president when there’s a cool, hip, younger guy who actually IS president? Nobody, Bill. Not even Jesse Jackson will be returning your calls after Obama is inaugurated.

To the Pumas: Thank you for your valiant efforts. Your loyalty to Hillary is commendable but she’s over and done with now. It’s time for you to move on.

If you swing to the conservative side I’d say sit tight and see what Governor Palin does over the next few years.

If not then good luck to you guys if you try to stay with the Democratic party. With Obama in as president there will be no welcome mat for you ever again and if you thought he didn’t tolerate dissent as a candidate wait until you see what he’s probably going to be like after the office goes to his head for a few years.

To the Obama Kool Aid Drinkers: You are in for such an amazing world of disappointment. You drank the koolaid and bought into the hype. But are you aware of what it is you were buying into? Do you even have the first idea of what the repercussions of your koolaid drinking might be for our country and the world?

What will you do when your messiah doesn’t live up to your expectations? How will you go on when you find that the words “hope” and “change” were never really about you but were only a vehicle for an ambitious man to obtain power? What will happen when your expectations finally crash into the unavoidable reality of the real world?

It’s going to be ugly for you and you’ll never be the same once it happens. I’d pity you if you weren’t already so pathetic and if your foolishness didn’t have such potentially deadly consequences for our nation.

To Black Voters: Congratulations! One of your own race (well actually he’s half-black but that’s close enough) was elected to the most powerful office in the world. I’m sure it had to have been an amazing moment for you when you finally realized what had happened. I hope you savored it and that you’ll remember it for the rest of your lives. It truly was a historic moment in that sense.

But even amazing moments pass and then you have to face the sad truth that – white or black – politicians are just politicians and most of them are essentially the same. They do what is required to obtain power and then to maintain it. And that might include President Obama throwing you under the bus the way he has thrown others in the past when it suited him politically.

Yup, you’re expendable to him. Don’t be surprised if the man you’re so proud of right now ultimately doesn’t live up to your hopes and your dreams.

It’s not a racial thing. It’s a human thing.

To the White Guilt Voters: You really ought to be ashamed of yourselves. Whatever America’s past racial sins might have been the harsh fact of the matter is that you engaged in your own form of racism. You voted for a man because of his race and because you felt guilty about who you are and what you think America did or didn’t do in the past.

You should have picked the most qualified candidate and done so in a color-blind way. That’s what it really means to be “post-racial.” Instead you voted for an unqualified half-black man who – if he was white (as Geraldine Ferraro pointed out) – would have been laughed off the stage at the first Democrat debate.

Barack Obama might have eventually still gotten to the office of the presidency later on after he gained more experience in the senate. But at least partly because of white guilt suffering losers like yourselves he got there way, way too soon. Nothing in his background, education or life experience has prepared him for the office he is assuming and the problems he will face.

But he’s going to be our president nonetheless and you will bear a large part of the blame for the potentially disastrous mistakes he makes. Shame on all of you and your own innate racist white guilt.

To Colin Powell: Your guy won so maybe your endorsement meant something. But you didn’t fool anybody when you tried to say that race didn’t matter. It did and you’ll always be remembered for that (and for lying at the UN but that’s a different matter). But now – like Bill Clinton – you will be forever eclipsed by President Obama. You’re basically a footnote in history now, Colin, and a bit of a racialist footnote to boot.

To the Israelis: You guys are so screwed right now. If you’re going to go after Iran, do it fast. You have about two months…

To the Iraqis: You guys might be screwed too. Start hauling ass getting your country fixed up because in 2 months we might not be there for you any more. After that you might be on your own.

To “Reverend” Wright: You’re still a racist scumbag who hates America. Go screw yourself, slime bag.

To the “Mainstream Media”: I’m ashamed and embarrassed for you because you don’t have the class, integrity or professionalism to be ashamed of yourselves and embarrassed for the bias you demonstrated throughout this campaign. You’re a joke. I take solace in that fact that what little bit of “objectivity” you tried to hide behind is permanently gone and I look forward to watching your circulation numbers and viewership sink even lower than your bad reporting.

To Some of My Leftist Friends: Wow. Talk about not having any class. Between the nasty remarks on Facebook and the phone calls, your true colors are showing and they aren’t pretty at all. If you win an election it is incumbent upon you to behave graciously and magnanimously. Spewing partisan venom AFTER the election does not make you look good and demeans your victory.

To Mitt Romney: I know what you’re thinking you self-promoting, ambitious bastard. Forget it! You had your chance and you came off like a used car salesman. Every time you opened your mouth you made people feel like they’d been slimed. You’re too slick for your own good, Mitt. Go back to business as you don’t have a future in politics.

To Mike Huckabee: You are the worst of all possible worlds, Mike. You’re a holy roller and a socialist all rolled into one snake-oil selling package. You try to come across as folksy but all comes off as incredibly manipulative and fake. Ugh.

And thanks to you and the used car salesman (Romney) splitting the conservative vote, we got stuck with RINO McCain who can’t even keep control over his staffers and stop them from attacking the one bright light in the entire election: Governor Sarah Palin.

Good riddance to you Mike.

To Carl Cameron: I never had a beef with you Carl until you started spewing the lies from “anonymous” sources about Governor Palin. You acted like a school girl gossiping about one of her friends to another friend. Whatever journalistic credentials and credibility you had are gone.

I’ve turned off Fox News and I won’t turn it on again until you are reprimanded publicly and/or fired. Your “reporting” was unprofessional and quite unbecoming. Shame on you and on Fox News for airing your inane yapping.

To the Gun Owners of America: Grab your credit cards and start buying what you want because you know another ban of some kind is probably on the way. Stock up on ammo too because that might be banned and if it’s not banned outright then you’ll be paying 5,000% tax on it. If you haven’t joined the NRA then now is the time to do so. The NRA is going to have its hands full with this congress and this president.

To Governor Sarah Palin: Governor…well can I call you Sarah just this once?…okay, I will. Sarah, if there’s a silver lining in what happened today then you’re it. Thank you so much for making the run with Senator McCain.

The McCain campaign let you down by not giving you time to get up to speed on certain issues right after you were picked and it screwed up royally by putting you into interviews with partisan leftist journalists who were looking to hurt you politically as much as possible. The media didn’t just question your position on issues they actively tried to destroy you and your family. Thank you for remaining so strong and not letting them get what they wanted.

How infuriating that they tried to muzzle you when you were the one that saw what needed to be done. You knew who Barack Obama really is and you knew how to beat him. If the McCain campaign had listened to you and changed its strategy it might have won. Instead it gave Senator Obama a free pass on Reverend Wright and other character related issues. And now he is the president-elect instead of John McCain.

The RNC’s stupid attempt to dress you up (when you were a bright, shining star all on your own) was laughable but their stupidity cost you politically and it all hurt your credibility. If there’s a lesson to be learned from this it’s that you should be in control next time. Don’t let anybody else try to make you fit their idea of what you should be or appear to be.

Thanks again, Sarah. Take some time to rest up and enjoy your beautiful state and family. Get back into your routine and continue doing the terrific work you’ve been doing for Alaska’s citizens.

Don’t ever forget that there are millions of good and decent Americans who support you and who were honored to have you as the Republican Vice Presidential nominee.

You have a bright future and if you should decide to make a run at the brass ring yourself, we’ll be here waiting to help you. God bless you and your family, Sarah.

But What About the State and Local Races?
I don’t know what the story is with the local races yet nor do I really care too much as I’m too tired. But I was relieved to find out that my state senator (a republican) got reelected. So there was one small shred of comfort as far as that goes. But I don’t think the pubbies will take the state senate back and I have heard nothing about the house either.

I guess there will be more info tomorrow. I also want to know where the executive council is right now, I’ve seen no numbers for that either. I would like to see some political balance come back to New Hampshire.

Sorry to see Sununu go down in flames. He really was a good senator and it’s a loss to the state for him to be gone. Thanks for your service Senator Sununu.

All in all it was a far, far, far too long of a campaign. I’m so sick of it I could puke. But it’s over now and I’m going to bed.

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1. McCain Hits Back About Obama and Palin’s Experience
2. Tomorrow is Election Day
3. No Bounce for Obama
4. Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart Suck
5. Obamabots: Sarah Palin is Racist

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