'Time to Jump'? Yes; jump the shark; perhaps.
FWIW: Bush did not hand the election to Obama; McCain did. More; our 'third rail' of politics; now more Dem, 'shadow Party'; made it all possible for Obama, by their failure as Media to inquire/investigate and to 'challenge' this candidate. They carried Obama's water; ignored all else and so earned their 'useful idiot' badges and hats. They are still wearing them.
As for 'backing up' and looking for 'real' blame; try Fannie and Freddie and the Demrats forcing mortgages/banks into loans they neither 'legitimately'- nor morally - should have made. That was the 'crux'. . But why even go here?
No question, Bush had his faults (and unlike Obama; paid dearly); but had McCain stepped up to the plate; and had found some serious Conservatism; we might have had a different ending to that election; but not likely. 'Change' so resonated; despite the lies. But enough of 'then' and 'Bush's fault'; it is lame and tiresome. Time is NOW and 'NO way] do I fear Mitt the Terrible - versus Obama. . .
Good news; in the meantime! While you were snoozing perhaps; O's hot water'; unlike Obama; Romney and Ryan; it is reported; are NOT interested in accommodating Shariah Law in America!
FWIW: Bush did not hand the election to Obama;
***I disagree. I posted in 2006 that he should have asked Cheney to step down and install a VP (my hope was Duncan Hunter, or whomever he chose) who would be seen as the obvious golden boy. If he would have done that, he could have had far more impact on the next election with a strong candidate. Instead, he handed it over to the GOP-E and the press, so we ended up with Mccainiack, one of the weakest candidates possible.