On a recent post from Media Matters regarding Mark Sanford, some wingnut troll had this to say:

Sanford is now 100% qualified to be the next democRAT [sic] presidential nominee. He may even win the election. Remember, only republicans kick adulterers out of the party.

Apparently, this genius forgot about David Vitter.

And Newt Gingrich.

And Rudy Giuliani.

And John McCain.

And…you get the idea.

And so…

I am not making this up. Today on my way to work I saw a pickup truck with a “Palin” sticker on the back window.

Let me clarify…it was a “McCain/Palin” sticker without the top half.

It appeared that the owner had deliberately trimmed McCain’s name, and not merely done half-assed job of scraping off the original sticker.

I also saw a dead-head sticker on a Cadillac, but that’s another story…

John McCain, recently, on Obama’s plans to close Guantanamo:

Where are you going to send [the detainees]? That decision I would have made before I’d announced the closure, because I don’t know of a state in America that wants them in their state. It’s going to — you think Yucca Mountain is a NIMBY problem? Wait till you see this one.

John McCain, in 2007:

Yes. I would close Guantanamo Bay. And I would move those prisoners to Fort Leavenworth.

Bob Cesca also has some interesting things to say about where we kept Nazi POWs during WWII.

The uber-conservative Human Events Magazine has named Sarah Palin its “Conservative of the Year,” and I couldn’t agree more. Palin exemplifies the vacuous philosophy of Republican politics. Her strident anti-intellectualism, blind faith, and personal corruption are the hallmarks of her Party and stand as testimony to her worthiness for this honor.

Human Events got Ann “The Man” Coulter to write this paean to Palin, and she starts out thusly:

Palin was chosen because McCain…needed a conservative on the ticket, but he had no idea that picking her would send the left into a tailspin of wanton despair.

Not really sure what Coulter is getting at here. Like most of “the left,” my immediate reaction to the Palin pick for VP was “…who?”

Despair? Hardly.

Sure, we were a little aghast at her abhorrent politics, strident ignorance, and arrogant behavior vis-a-vis the ethics investigations against her. But as we learned more and more about Miss Moose-olini, Half-baked Alaska, Governor Avon Lady, many of us nearly stood up and cheered McCain for his selection.

Now let me say for the record that I never really thought McCain had a chance against Obama. But choosing Palin as his running mate was, in my opinion, the final nail in the coffin for his campaign (one of many, if you wanna be a stickler.) There was NO WAY a majority of American voters were gonna let that idiot into the Vice Presidency.

If I wasn’t an atheist, I would be praying for Palin to run in 2012. Could you imagine You Betcha McWinker against an incumbent Obama? The debates alone would be comedy gold!

So please Republicans, by all means, shower her with honors. Hoist her up as your champion. Make her your candidate in 2012. And when she loses, run her again in 2016. I’ll get down on my knees and beg if it’ll help. Such a Palin-centric strategy is guaranteed to secure a Democratic White House for the next decade or more. Maybe even the coveted “filibuster-proof majority” in the Senate.

So, yes.

More Palin, please.

News Corpse » Sarah Palin: Conservative Of The Year

Two weeks after Election Day, Obama is still winning.

Since [Election Day], Barack Obama’s margin of victory has grown from 5% to 7% and his vote total has swelled by 12.6 million…

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Shepard Smith takes down a wingnut. And it’s beautiful.

The surprise? As you can probably see, Shepard Smith works for Fox News. Perhaps we’re seeing a crack in the conservo-facade there.

After eight years of having Republicans call me an un-American troop-hating fag-loving socialist, after months of John McCain embracing the hate to a level where his own supporters were calling out for Barack Obama to be assassinated, no one is going to be permitted to tell me with a straight face that “oh you know, both sides do it.”

Your side was abominable. Your side was hateful. Your side race-baited. Your side gay-baited. Your side lied like we’ve never seen in recent presidential campaign history. Your side used a tax-cheat who would do better under Obama’s tax proposal [Joe the plumber] to be your everyman on the issue of taxes. Your side, in a veiled effort at race-baiting, said Obama doesn’t put his country first. Your side had the audacity to call Obama a socialist. Your side suggested he was a Muslim. Your side suggested he was a terrorist. Your side suggested he was Osama bin Laden.

Spare me the crap about how both sides do it. You people are a disgrace, you’ve been a disgrace for eight long years, and all your hate and lying and venom and vitriol finally bit you in your collective fat ass.

Check out AmericaBlog for more.

Results for Guilford County, where Sarah Palin made her remarks about “real Americans” in “pro-America parts of the country”:

Obama/Biden 58.75%
McCain/Palin 40.44%

Remember, two years ago John McCain was probably the most popular Republican in politics, and maybe the nation’s most popular politician.

And he just got his ass handed to him by a black man with a funny name. How much of that would you bet is due to the absolutely shameful campaign McCain decided to run?