John McCain is a great American. Thank you for everything you have done.

"John McCain is a great American."

Yes he is.

"Thank you for everything you have done."

You make it sound like he is finished. He is still a vital player in our government.

I think McCain's concession was full of tact and grace.

I wish I could say the same about some of his supporters.

Well done, Sen. McCain.

I think McCain's concession was full of tact and grace.

I wish I could say the same about some of his supporters.

#3 | Posted by Redneckville

Absolutely. He showed the world what a true stateman is. I'm gonna go out on a limb here and suggest that he will play more than a small role in the new government.

There were a few times when i actually like Mccain and obama actually liked each other. that can go a long way in washington. knowing who you can trust and who you like.

were it not for a few incidences (#1 being picking palin) he may be the president-elect.

Today, I am very proud of him and the rest of the country. I am especially proud of obama, who ran a brilliant campaign.

I can't give McCain a complete pass regarding the anger of his supporters. Talk radio here in Jacksonville was running 100 percent against Obama, and they were saying a lot of hateful crap dredged up by McCain/Palin.

But his speech last night was a terrific attempt to move beyond it and heal the nation after a difficult and divisive campaign. I hope that his voters come to feel the same way.

mccain is a genuine honorable man

and is definately not done doing his service for the country.

Now that McCain isn't running against a Democrat anymore, it's amazing how the left has suddenly rediscovered that he's an honorable man.

McCain has learned how temporal and opaque friendships are. He thought he had them in the media, and in the Dem ranks in Congress. He didn't. He earned his moniker "maverick" by going against conservatives for his entire career. It got him nowhere.

"it's amazing how the left has suddenly rediscovered that he's an honorable man."

McCain has a lot of work to do to rehabilitate himself.

This is just the first step.

"it's amazing how the left has suddenly rediscovered that he's an honorable man."

I think is is, essentially, an honorable man. However, many of those advising him, and definitely Sarah Palin and those around her were less than honorable.

Unfortunately McCain allowed those people to turn his campaign too negative, and America had had enough of that.

Those factors do not negate the man's service to his country and he still deserves our respect for that.

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and suggest that he will play more than a small role in the new government.

I was thinking something to do with the VA.

He was clearly a heartbroken man who may have started to regret what his campaign had done to his legacy.

Big deal. At least negative campaigns are honest ones. I note that few of you were concerned about the negative reporting of Sarah Palin; you just took that to mean the Obama campaign and the media were doing their jobs. But when it came to the same about Biden or Obama, you cry foul.

Politics isn't for sissies. Obama realizes that. Why can't you? BTW: what was it with all the tear-jerking in Chicago last night? Am I the only one in America with a heart of stone? Or do others think the wailin' and the weepin' during his big speech were a little silly?

John McCain is the last of the true Statesman, I put Colin Powell in that category. I was disappointed in his endorsement, but Colin Powell has earned the right to support anyone he wants without questioning his motives. I also really like Joe Biden, He is wrong on everything, but so is my mom and I love her, I always tell her if I run for office my slogan will be "vote for me , because my mom won't". I didn't vote for Obama not because of him, but people who support him. I can't tell you how many Hammer and Sickle flags I saw lat night at the Obama rallies...What is that all about? How much money did we spend to defeat communism.

Anyway, As a right-wing nut, I know that Pelosi and Reid and all her left wing lunatics will try to ram every far left policy through thinking they have a free ride now. I don't think Obama is a Nut, I just hope he is as pragmatic as everyone is gving him credit for.

If you want to know why they are weeping..here ya go and can I ask do all Obama supporters think this way?

"At least negative campaigns are honest ones."

Tell that to John McCain's black baby.

"do others think the wailin' and the weepin' during his big speech were a little silly?"

There could be others besides you. Myself, I thought it highly appropriate and completely understandable.

"I can't tell you how many Hammer and Sickle flags I saw lat night at the Obama rallies...What is that all about?"

I sure hope you got some pictures of that. Otherwise some people might not believe you.

I will say it - this was a gracious speech. If THIS McCain had shown up for this election, things might have turned out very differently. Senator McCain had my respect and admiration last night. It is just too bad that the crowd he was speaking to did not show his class.

Puhlease He had to be this way last night. I just hate it when Politicians behave Very badly before being defeated and then when they try and paint themselves with this Nice and contrite behavior after the defeat they somehow deserve praise and accolades. If You acted badly before and now try and sweet talk after You lose You are being a fraud and fake. Had John McCain ran a clean campaign before and lost and came out with the same speech I would applaud Him. He didn't so therefore He won't.

Larry

My wife and I spent last eve at our local Dem headquarters. There was a groundswell of relief and happiness when our guy was projected the winner.

And there was not a whisper nor a disrespectful comment during McCain's speech.

With the given convergence of national concerns McCain probably could not have won with a positive campaign.

I'd like to think that we've seen the end of slash-and-burn, blood-sport, political campaigns. Probably just wishful thinking, we'll see.

For the most part thank you for your comments.

RIR

don't get ahead of yourself

McCain is an honorable man

but
those pulling his strings durring the campaign and advising on what to say and how to choose his views and who to pick as the vp and the GOP party is still a lost lost crew and needs to spend the next 4-8 years realizing what THEY did to disenfrancize so many americans.

"but so is my mom and I love her"

there is the proof of you being lost in the wilderness

dismissing your own mother's wisdom

wow

i think you are the one who is wrong
on EVERYTHING

people like you are the BIGGEST reason McCain lost
cause you think you know more then everyone else
but you know nothing.

those pulling his strings durring the campaign and advising on what to say and how to choose his views and who to pick as the vp and the GOP party is still a lost lost crew and needs to spend the next 4-8 years realizing what THEY did to disenfrancize so many americans.

#20 | Posted by klifferd
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Wow. Are you a retard. Look, you can't have it both ways--you can't say that McCain is a puppet whose moves are orchestrated by advisors beyond his control, then say he's an honorable guy--obviously, he isn't in that case, he's just a dupe.

And please spare me another disenfranchisement post. How many millions of votes did you need to win by, so you don't have to pretend that Repubs are out disenfranchising everyone of color?

Get a life.

Dear John:

Bye.

Sincerely,
America

I think McCain's concession was full of tact and grace.

What a tactful and graceful thing for you to say. Well done.

I wish I could say the same about some of his supporters.

Oops. Nevermind.

McCain gave a boring, derivative speech. He is certainly no orator. And he had no control over the "mob" in the audience. He should be ashamed for not having more control over them.

Has anyone heard a better concession speech, ever?

It was reminiscent of 2000 John McCain, the kind of guy I could have voted for. But unfortnately, in order to win the primaries John had to change who he was. That gave him the ability to run for the party, but in Shakespearean irony it killed his chance of winning.

2000 McCain would have stood a chance to win the show, only he never would have got the party nomination, and 2008 McCain gets the party nomination and would never win the general election.

from above, near the top...

"I think McCain's concession was full of tact and grace. I wish I could say the same about some of his supporters.

-Redneckville

I totally agree with that. I was headed home late
from a O'bama Rally in WV., cuz I had to get up at
like 4 a.m. to catch the train into D.C. to work,
and it was already about 12:30 a.m., and I was listening to NPR which was playing it live.

I couldn't help but notice the extreme difference in poise and tact between McCain, and his most
rabid Republican followers. Every time he mentioned
either O'Bama or Biden's name the booing went on and on, and several times he had to hush them up,
so he could get to the meat of his speech.

Perhaps it was magnified more because I wasn't watching the television, and only had the voices to listen to, but the rabid Republicans could learn a thing or two about his graciousness in the face of defeat.

my 2 cents.

Has anyone heard a better concession speech, ever?

It was reminiscent of 2000 John McCain, the kind of guy I could have voted for. But unfortnately, in order to win the primaries John had to change who he was. That gave him the ability to run for the party, but in Shakespearean irony it killed his chance of winning.

2000 McCain would have stood a chance to win the show, only he never would have got the party nomination, and 2008 McCain gets the party nomination and would never win the general election.

#26 | Posted by bigjohn_1972

ain't that the truth. i was both sad and glad that McCain lost track of himself this election. if he hadn't, he would've been electable and would've been a leader i might've been okay about supporting even, however he did and now we have Obama. THANK GOODNESS FOR THAT.

"Has anyone heard a better concession speech, ever?"

Given what happened in the 2000 election, I thought Al Gore's was better.

Reading the comments here and elsewhere on the Drudge Retort I have to say you lefties are suffering from severe selective short-term memory loss. Throughout the last few months by far the worst mudslinging, malicious innuendo and outright lying I've seen this year has come from the 0bamanites here. Maybe you people should get out of your little cocoon here and on other leftie havens and see how McCain is being congratulated for running one of the cleanest Presidential campaigns in recent memory.

BTW in case it slips your petty little partisan minds I didn't support McCain for President this year I only tried to correct the myths you wanted to spread, called you out for your naivety and was repulsed by your slanderous lying.

Yeh right Gimmie

Osama for Obama
Hussein linking it to Saddam
Terrorist lover
Anti American
Traitor
N word
Not a Natural US Citizen.
Unpatriotic for not wearing a flag pin
etc etc etc

Larry

Maybe you people should get out of your little cocoon here and on other leftie havens and see how McCain is being congratulated for running one of the cleanest Presidential campaigns in recent memory.

~Cutthisguy-offatthebar

The people who are saying that are insane.

The McCain campaign has been one of the dirtiest, ugliest, most divisive, lie-filled, race-baiting, xenophobia inducing, pieces of shit in American political history.

Obama has run one of the cleanest, most honest, most positive campaign in American political history.

Yer totally back-asswards with yer Rovian ill-logic.

Typical rethug.

Try to turn yer opponent into the opposite of wot he is and then do the same thing to the piece of shit you put up.

Spud would say "Nice try" but you know it wasn't.

Be Well.

McCain is being congratulated for running one of the cleanest Presidential campaigns in recent memory.

The memory of whom? An Alhzeimers patient?

All that sed above the concession speech that McCain gave really was a nice touch of class albeit too little too late.

/Spud bases that on wot Spud could hear of John's speech above the ravenous, angry, BOO shouting, classless mob he was speaking to.

//Gimme's "bringing a plastic spoon to a spork fight", yet agin.

Be Well.

SPUD

We should be used to the fact that up is down, right is wrong, left is right in Conservadonia.

McCain ran a dirty campaign.

The analogy I used a few weeks ago was that the right started throwing the roof shingles, then the beams, then the drywall, electrical fixtures, and so on.

Finally left with only the kitchen sink to throw.

Little did they realize in their haste that it was their own house they tore down.

Little did they realize in their haste that it was their own house they tore down.

That was some goooood analogy.

Spud luffs a good analogy and that one especially rawked.

"A house divided cannot stand"

~Abraham Lincoln

"He who troubleth his own house will inherit the wind"

~Proverbs 11:29

The GOPhers have brought much trouble to their own house and now they gotta suck wind.

/Much easier fer Palin that rest, imagines Spud, due to all her Beauty pageant flute lessons.
//Also, in a pinch she can take blocks of Wassilla ice and build a new house pretty quick.
///Is not good to sit on blocks of ice fer too long cos you can get POLAROIDS!
////Spud did mention the giddyness factor, yes?

^_^

Be Well.

Spud I'm not a rethug having voting for one only Republican but two Dems in 10 Presidential elections (the rest were 3rd party or independents).

Anything that the Republicans threw at 0bama pales in comparison to the Lefts throwing groundless malicious gossip around that the true maternity of Sarah Palin's baby was questionable and the "retard" jokes about the baby weren't funny by any standard of decency. There's other things but to those of you who partook in that type of despicable and shameless behavior (anonymously on the internet to boot) it's a wonder how you can look at yourself in the mirror.

SPUD

I forgot to add a huge WOO HOO!! in your honor LOL

YES, WE DID !! and YES, WE CAN !!

Obama is VERY pro-potato BTW

If we get the mccain back from 2000 I think he will be a valuable asset to the senate. I think some things can really get done.

Fuck McSame. He ran the filthiest campaign yet and one little contrite speech does NOT make up for all the damage he's done to the country. All the divisive BS that he tolerated and encouraged as his campaign started to get desperate will resonate for years, for the all of President Obama's term(s) in office, and that will be McScum's real legacy.

He's a piece of shit who should be run out of town on a rail. Him and his newfound hillbilly friends.

Lefts throwing groundless malicious gossip around that the true maternity of Sarah Palin's baby was questionable and the "retard" jokes about the baby weren't funny by any standard of decency

when people on the "Left" make those kinds of comments, you can be sure that what they're really pointing out is the hypocricy of the "Right". Same as all the queer jokes that surrounded the recent events in the Congressional Toilet Facilities.

I've been quite against McCain for this whole election, but that was kind of an odd thing for me. Had he run as the same McCain as he was in 2000, that is where he wasn't afraid to call the religious right hate mongers and seemed a little more liberal socially, and conservative fiscally (true conservative, not insane huge Dubya style deficit spending conservative), he probably would still have had my vote. This whole campaign though, it seemed he catered to the neocons and then the fundies with Palin, which was an intersting move politically, but a slap in the face to anyone with a brain in their head and a third grade education on up.

I actually felt sorry for him and impressed at his concession speech. I really wish he had won the republican ticket back then instead of Bush. It just wasn't McCain's time anymore, though. As for the way he ran his campaign, deplorable, but, meh, it's politics. Obama seems to be able to take a punch and show himself as the better guy by taking it and shrugging it off, and it's not unexpected in some ways - McCain had to endear himself to his base, since the left had someone whom their base loved, and McCain needed to get out those votes. Unfortunately for him, those voters are wack jobs and religious nutters, and the independant voters, like I said, well, it was just past McCain's time.

I feel he does still deserve recognition for his grace in concession, as well as his half century of service to this nation. He was and is a great man, just not the one we needed right now.

Palin on the other hand - that bitch needs to know she's not welcome back in 2012 or any other time either though. How a right-wing headcase like that can make it as far as she has in modern politics just boggles the mind.

McCain's concession speech was very good.

Anyone notice the coldness with which he shook Palin's hand? I'm willing to bet they weren't the best of friends at all during this campaign.