[Steely Tom]

I forgot something else, something important.

The opposition candidate, McCain, was abominable. He couldn’t explain why he wanted to be President. He couldn’t explain why he was a better choice than Obama. In fact, he went out of his way to state that Obama was a good guy and would be a fine president.

He didn’t really want to be president. He would have been nearly as bad as Obama, in all probability.

So what my earlier explanation missed was this: you can’t beat something with nothing. McCain was nothing. He offered nothing except “I’m the Republican candidate, I don’t really think my party has anything better to offer, and the other guy would be a fine choice.”

[DuncanWaring]

He couldn’t explain why he wanted to be President.

That's because he didn't want to be President.

He was perfectly happy being a Senator.

He fought much harder against J.D. Hayworth than he fought against The Won.

[mountainfolk]

In addition to your observation that you cannot beat something with nothing, which I agree with, I wanted him out because of his age. I am old enough to relate to the necessity for us to put younger people in elective office to cut down on the corruption of long termers who just will not give up their status and perks. There is a downward curve as one ages and in a political office, that means that staff must logically be running the job, with the elected senator or congress person picking and choosing their public exposure for relection. Term limits must become an issue for citizens who want us to clean up our government and regain sanity in how this country is run.