I hope he quits his position on the senate.I don't feel sorry for him he attacked Obama to the point that it started to bring division in this country, and then he put our lives in jeopardy buy putting Sarah palin in a position that she is not quailfyed.Country first uhuh I believe election first.We as americans have to unite to over come these terrible times

McCain's concession speech reminded me of Tolkien's Saruman, trying to sweet-talk the coalition of his victims among the ruins of Isengard: "Thus would the trapped wolf speak to the hounds, if he could." There stood the pathetic remnant of what was once a mildly charming Republican hack, having betrayed his honorable military history by selling out to the forces and methods of Darkness, now left with nothing of his former powers except his voice. Listening to his dulcet tones and sweet message, you could almost forget his wholehearted conversion to the methods of Bush and Rove, the pandering to the religious extremists, the scurrilous, far-fetched character assassinations, the rabble-rousing vicious henchwoman, and the army of loathsome creatures they launched to attack and defame Obama, and degrade the political process. Unfortunately for McCain, his last effort to recreate his old illusion was shattered when his desperate attempts at graciousness were drowned out by the snarls and odium pouring from the loathsome mob he nourished and encouraged. As long as the gross coalition of twisted creatures that McCain aroused and misinformed continues to threaten the political process, there can be no easy forgiveness for his dishonoring of the debate, and of himself. He is still capapable of mischief, in a small way, even though his power has been broken. And if you were casting Wormtongue, could you do better than Lieberman?

the Palin/Palin2012 campaign. A gift that will keep on giving for 8 years. Thank you John McCain.

Redemption? Redemption? Is that what you call that 'performance'?

1 the action of saving or being saved from sin, error, or evil : God's plans for the redemption of his world.

• [in sing. ] figurative a thing that saves someone from error or evil : his marginalization from the Hollywood jungle proved to be his redemption.

2 the action of regaining or gaining possession of something in exchange for payment, or clearing a debt.

• archaic the action of buying one's freedom.

Catch that 'archaic' definition: "the action of buying one's freedom".

McCain wanted to disassociate himself from the evil that his campaign unleashed on this society. I don't think that you should be able to walk away from it that easy...

All throughout this campaign, John McCain has sought and been labeled a 'Maverick', and all the time slinging as much mud and bone breaking anger and hostility.

Now, in his concession speech, he hopes to just walk out of the sewer his campaign created and leave the wild animals and monsters that both he and Sarah Palin created.

I;m deathly afraid that it doesn't work that way. You see, in the 'real world', there are sick people who believe your anti-social lies and machinations. There are people who only get their 'news' from Fox News and Rush Limbaugh. Just like people that graze through their local McDonalds and Burger King (Dunkin Donuts?) for four and five meals a day, they end up being ignorant and their mind rots. They honestly believe everything that comes across the TeeVee because, well, everyone knows that they can't say it on the TeeVee if it isn't true. Same for the radio...

When they see cute and photogenic Sarah Palin clutching her prop son and saying things like 'Well yah know that Obama just isn't one of us' and that he's 'scary' and a 'terrorist' and a 'Muslim', they eat that stuff up and believe it as gospel.

You just can't walk back into the darkness after that kind of mean and filthy campaign, especially this one which probably set records for the depth that a political party will mine to in order to potentially keep their opponent from winning. You can't instigate bedlam and near riots at your political engagements and have people wishing your opponent dead and then when you lose, just walk away.

Something is very wrong with our political process that would permit, nae demand this kind of underhanded cowardice from a political party.

To think that you can walk away to Arizona and the nuthouse of Alaska and ignore the severe damage that you and your vicious little attack dogs have done is unconscionable and foolhardy.

But I guess a court of law, especially one with a judge appointed by George Walker Bush (Karl Rove?) and cleared by Monica Goodling would be hard pressed to find anyone guilty for acting on the McCain campaign programming... Look at the Colorado assassination plot for an example: A Rove appointed and Goodling cleared US Attorney soft peddled that threat.

Something is very wrong with this country, profoundly wrong and it's not going to help that the GOP practically handed the election to a black man.

McCain and his lobbyist minions should be held criminally responsible for anything that their followers do in the next two years at least!

McCain and that wastrel Palin should have to go on Fox News and Rush Limbaugh and have to undo the evil that they have created. Political campaigns should have to live by stiff libel and slander laws that insure that anything that the campaign slings at the opposition is real and truthful, with documentation.

Any group that creates any advertisement will have to live by those same standards: If it isn't true and documented beyond a shadow of a doubt, don't run it.

Getting money out of politics is a tall order, getting the nastiness out could be a whole lot more achievable, even in my lifetime...

I fully expect Mr./Mrs. Palin to go home, meet with their religious/political advisors (in other words, go to church for emotional support, then talk to each other across the kitchen table in good old Wasilla), then start pushing in earnest for Alaska to seceded from the union. That'll show Barack Obama and the rest of America that they can't push the Palin's around!