I was wrong and Rush was right about turn out. I was looking at over all turn out when I said that Romney would pass McCain. I did not recognize, in my first analysis, that Romney did considerably better among Independents. I guess Romney did fail to convince enough Conservatives to vote for him, or at least some portion of what is nominally the Right.
I believe Romney brought a cap pistol to a gunfight. You don’t play nice, when you are running against thugs.
No one thought that so many Conservatives, purists, Evangelicals etc would sit this one out, considering what was at stake with the future of America. To say that’s merely disappointing, is the frigging understatement of the decade.
Romney wasn’t in my original top 5 choices, but ***HE WAS WHAT’S FOR DINNER***, dammit.