Read the rest of my post, if the ticket had turned on itself then it would have shown the 2008 ticket as a sham, a fake out of the American people, it would have dominated the news, destroyed Palin, stopped our gains in 2010, made Obama look like the only sane choice in 2008, and McCain would still have kept his Senate seat.
That is a lot of guesswork there. There is no real way to see that happening. All these arguments are based on political strategery and not doing what is right for the country. I have a very low tolerance for the political moves anymore.