Previously we reported on the petition allowing activists to salute Sarah Palin and her contribution to the 2008 US Election. Now it’s the turn of John McCain. Over on his official site there’s a petition allowing supporters to express their gratitude to Senator McCain.

The American conservative movement has some hard days ahead, and the post-mortem on this election is already well under way. Senator McCain, though, who produced so much uplifting oratory during the campaign as he urged us to “stand up and fight” and to “serve a cause greater than yourself”, offers these words from which we can take heart:

“I call on all Americans, as I have often in this campaign, to not despair of our present difficulties but to believe always in the promise and greatness of America, because nothing is inevitable here. Americans never quit. We never surrender. We never hide from history, we make history.”