[GOP Poet]

he is right it is all biege farce. Now Sarah Palin—that is sponteniety and John McCain deserves credit for bringing her on board and sending all the liberal power brokers in NY, LA, and Washington into disarray :-).

[RobinOfKingston]

It may already be too late.

I can't tell you how many times I have said to all and sundry, "We have lived through the last of the best."

[ApplegateRanch]

But those ‘smokey back rooms’ are so..UNDEMOCRATIC!

I miss those floor fights, too. I watched Kennedy/Johnson.

I even got to see & hear a bit of the ‘56 Dem convention, between newscasts & radio coverage.

I miss it; it embodied the brokering & horse trading of politics for all to see, rather than this modern primary vote pandering.

[TexasNative2000]

Gone is the American promise typified in the Frank Capra movie Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, of the young, unschooled but zealous young man turning the tide and changing the apparent outcome

No, it's not gone. Her name is Sarah Palin and she's being ridiculed as an inexperienced light-weight by people who SAY they are for 'the people' - but when someone rises to prominence outside their ranks, they are smeared and torn down.