[MarkL]

If McCain couldn't beat a phony fraud like Obama he couldn't beat anybody

Actually, I disagree with this... McCain did unbelievably well, when you consider:

a) He wasn't the "natural" candidate of the party, and had pretty much alienated the base before the campaign even took off.

b) He decided to play by the rules, and use federal campaign contributions, limiting what he could raise on his own.

c) Blatant registration and I believe, voter fraud by the dems, through FEDERALLY FUNDED organizations like ACORN.

And finally,

d) Obama got what must have been the dollar equivalent of BILLIONS of dollars of propaganda from a fawning press that hid any bad things, while at the same time picking up every rumor against McCain or Palin.

Given all that, I'm surprised McCain did anywhere near as well as he did, getting nearly 50% of the popular vote.

Mark

[uncbob]

What has got to do with not beating Obama

I repeat if he couldn’t beat Obama he was going to beat any democrat

[muawiyah]

I've been arguing for two years that we should not lend our support to McCain unless he bellied up to the bar of justice and admitted the McCain/Feingold act had been an abysmal failure.

He had to then renounce and denounce McCain/Feingold, seek its repeal AND renounce all other uses of similarly fascistic methods that seek to control speech.

By now he should have figured out that McCain/Feingold is an abysmal failure.