I think the democrats purposely may have tanked the economy to help ensure a democrat would be elected after Bush, since they knew the liberal judges on the Supreme Court couldn’t hold on much longer. You see liberals can never allow abortion to be made illegal, because if it is then they will be portrayed by history as the ones who butchered over 100 million babies, which would make them 10 times more disgusting than the Nazi’s which only killed 8 million jews.
And they arranged, through their friends in the MSM, to have both major candidates to be different versions of idiot liberal - the self-identified Marxist in Obama, and the Center-pretending RINO McCain, who would (in my opinion) have appointed at least semi-liberal judges )all in the name of reaching across the isle).