I don’t know if it is so much about (R) and (D) as the fact we have a 2 party system. Always have had one. Each party puts forward a candidate and you vote. More often than not, you vote for the least/worse candidate.
The comment I made to an Eagle Scout who is now a CAPT in the Army back in 2004 was that I thought the Republicans ran an extremely weak candidate in Bush and I was shocked that the Democrats were able to find an even weaker candidate in Kerry.
Oh I agree pretty much. The Dems could walk away with it in ‘08 if they had a decent candidate. They don’t. (Thank God)