Let’s ban that “P” word here!
I agree. When the PUMAs went into the voting booth, there was no way 99% of them were going to vote for McCain. They would rather have a real liberal not liberal-lite.
Don’t complain about the PUMAs. The problem was that the PUMA phenomenon was confined to the most politically active segment of the Democrat party’s rank-and-file. There weren’t enough of them because they didn’t bring the somnabulent Hillary supporters along with them to the polls to vote McCain/Palin.
We FReepers and our allies off the board here weren’t enough of an influence on the GOP to get a good candidate nominated.
The PUMAs are to the center-left what we are to the right. There weren’t enough of us combined to swing the election in the face of the dishonest media environment once the topic shifted to vague economic distress instead of energy policy.
If we regain power, I want an investigation of Soros, Buffet and any hedge-fund manage who gave the max to Obama’s campaign. I think the crisis would have happened eventually, but I think under natural market conditions the subprime collapse would have happened in half a year to a year’s time rather than as an October Surprise.