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J. SIMMONS ASKED: Are you actually suggesting that either of those individuals would have come closer to beating Obama than McCain? (referring to Duncan Hunter or Tom Tancredo)

Yes, that is the whole point. First, elections involve a thousand events that take place over a period of a year or more BEFORE election day. Conservative volunteers just don't give two hoots about John McCain. So a Duncant Hunter or Tom Tancredo would have commanded the enthusiasm and the loyalty of those who actually make elections work in the Republican Party. A hundred thousand things would have happened across the nation that did not happen because the conservative base felt (correctly) that McCain was their enemy. They did not lift a finger for McCain.

Second, a Duncan Hunter or Tom Tancredo would have articulated a convincing argument, rather than the rambling, meaningless pablum that we got from McCain. The voters would have heard a persuasive appeal pointing out what Obama's EMPTY "platform" was a farce and "The Emperor had no clothes." McCain spent most of his firepower shooting at other Republicans urging the GOP not to disagree with Obama. (Now, if we are playing "what if?" we have to consider that Hunter and Tancredo DID NOT run good primary campaigns. So if we are imagining that they won the nomination, we have to pretend that they did a much better job in the primary than in fact they did.)

As a result, a Hunter or Tancredo would have shredded Obama's meaningless nonsense and burst his balloon. What happened with the seemingly "invincible" Obama is what happens when 1 football team stays seated on the bleachers and lets the other team run around unopposed, running up the score. A Hunter or Tancredo would have exposed Obama's non-platform and non-agenda as the frauds that they were. Obama would not have had a free hand to run up and down the field unopposed.

Third, a Hunter or Tancredo would have offered the voters a genuine choice. If you want liberalism, your man is Obama. Why the bleep would you ever consider voting for McCain? So if anyone is inclined to vote liberal, they were never going to vote for McCain. But the GOP did not give the voters a real choice. You cannot win an election by offering the voters a cheap imitation of the Democrat. Those who want to vote left will vote for the authentic liberal, the Democrat. The Left won't trust the Republican, and the Right will despise him as a traitor.