You mean like the trillions of dollars in 401K wealth that has evaporated in the past few months during what the average American voters believes to be a "conservative" Republican Presidency?
All the average American voter knows is that his nest egg has exploded and they blame "conservatives" and "Republicans" for that. You still are clueless about the fact that, in America, THE POLITICAL PUBLIC OPINION PENDULUM SWINGS BACK AND FORTH and the rest of America is not the Free Republic echo chamber where we conservatives always win our own popularity contests by a landslide.
Outside of our own conservative choir, in 2008, both of the political brand names of "conservative" and "Republican" were lower in popularity among the average American voter than whale sh*t at the bottom of the ocean.
Your boy (McCain) and your floptastic electoral "strategy" -- i.e., sniveling and bellycrawling after phantom "moderates" and independents, while simultaneously excorciating the actual conservative voting base -- l-o-s-t LOST. You, he and it: all well and truly discredited. Make certain to wave at me from your front row seat at the McCain Inauguration ceremony.
The only two things that have been discredited are:
1) "Do it my way or we conservatives will boycott the election and allow a Marxist to win the White House.
2) Pandering to Identity Politics. ("Let's choose an inexperienced female to get the female vote!")
Look at the numbers:
Republicans constitute 27% of all voters and Conservative Republicans constitute 60% of all Republicans.
That means that "Conservative Republicans" constitute less than 17% of American voters. Yet, to the "More Conservative Than Thou Crowd", if the top of the national ticket was not conservative, you were going to pout and stay home on Election Day.
Well, McCain DID pick a conservative and you were ecstatic about his conservative choice and you still are. He pandered to your political threat to choose a conservative VP so you would not boycott the election, EVEN IN THE FACE OF A MARXIST.
Where McCain really messed up is that he pandered TOO much by the Identity Politics choice of a woman when there were NO female conservative choices for the VP slot that had the experience needed to be a heartbeat away from the Presidency.
If McCain had picked Fred Thompson or Mitt Romney or anybody else that a serious person could at least claim was experienced on the national stage without lying, things might have turned out differently although, with trillions of 401K money being lost in the stock market over the past two months, even Ronald Reagan in his prime would have had a hard time selling "conservative" to the average American voter in 2008.
As it was, there were two candidates on the tickets that that had no experience to be truly qualified in regards to the Presidency: Barack Obama and Sarah Palin.
The voters chose the one that at least could hold his own against Katie Couric.