Looks to me like the Republicans simply want to stay away from W.
No......they are LAZY and STUPID and ELITE. They have brought themselves down, W hasn't brought them down.
"Looks to me like the Republicans simply want to stay away from W."
A dubious "friend" of conservatives. But what choice did we have in 2000, McCain? After all, they both had the magic "name-recognition", bestowed by the media. What choice did we have in the general election? We went from slim to none.