[raybbr]

Not to minimize Bush's failings, he is not alone in the recent damage done to the party. He also gave us Roberts and Alito. McCain has also done significant damage to the GOP but, in a perverse way, he also gave us Roberts and Alito.

There is some truth to that. However. Imagine if Bush, at the outset of his first administration, had turned hard line conservative? He had a GOP Congress to use at will. What did he do? He equivocated and starting proposing moderate to liberal policies right off the bat. Some say it was because he felt guilty about the election.

In any case he had a Congress chomping at the bit to go to the right. With Bush's vacillations he created a schizophrenic Congress. After a few months of Bush they didn't know which way to go. So, they started to follow him because isn't that what you're supposed to do when the leader of the party turns left.

That gave us CFR, Medicaid drugs, NCLB, massive spending both military and discretionary.

Bush has always been for amnesty and even believes the U.S. and mexico are destined to be one.

I am so done with Bush. McCain, Hillary and Obama are all of the same cloth. I will not vote for any of them.

[AndrewC]

You provide a compelling argument, but I still must vote for McCain. I will, however, wear a gas mask at the polls.