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I still believe that McCain would have won the election had he opposed TARP rather than suspend his campaign so help push it through.

But then again, a McCain who opposed TARP wouldn’t be McCain.

I agree with you. McCain could have won if he was a smart politician and had a campaign worthy of supporting him. To this day, I have wondered how well he would have done, if he had voted against TARP and had rhetoric worthy of a presidential candidate.

Without Palin, I think it would have been a blowout. His most infamous line in the campaign was that we had nothing to fear about Obama getting elected. That, I believe, was only 2 or 3 weeks before the election. The Obama campaign should have paid him a consultant's fee after that line.

I hope Romney makes a sharp distinction between the two. The ads released this weekend are really very disappointing. I think you can sharply criticize Obama (smash mouth in other words) without stepping over the line to where the ad appears cheap and cheesy.

I hope Romney has better ads in the queue.