“I honestly don’t believe he would have made it through the primaries, and frankly, if he didn’t have enough gumption to get past Macaca with Webb they would have eaten him alive in a general election.”
Possibly you are right. But that wasn’t the main point of my post.
If Kerry had won (and Bush was RINO and did nothing good in his second term other than the court, and Rehnquist could have resigned right after Bush lost and O’Conner would have done the same or stayed) 2006 would have been a good year instead of an awful one and with his hapless idiocy and the financial crisis Kerry probably would’ve lost in 2008 and if we didn’t have the depressed Republican party we had in 2008 someone better than McCain might have won the nomination (Allen being an example of a possibly).
That is an example of a rat victory possibly being better in the long run.
Someone better...like Allen or Sanford.