My memory is good too. So you're a "Keyester" and it would seem, I struck a nerve. Good.
Your remarks are precisely what Ford backers said in 1976, when they attacked Reagan for daring to run against Ford.
I was around, campaigning for Governor Reagan at the time and it wasn't the same. Ford and Reagan had a good realtionship with each other. Reagan highlighted his differences with President Ford, but he never viciously attacked Ford in a personal manner, as Keyes did, time and again with Bush. Reagan was always the gentleman and so was Bush. Ford invited Reagan to speak at the Republican National Convention and Reagan gave a strong speech favoring Ford's candidacy. Reagan even considered Ford for his VP running mate in 1980.
How it must grate on the Keyesters, to look so foolish, in support of someone like Keyes, who was clearly outmaneuvered and outclassed by George W.Bush, at every turn during the 2000 campaign.
McCain is a nut job, but I have to give him credit for bowing out with some appearence of grace. OTOH, Keyes was mean spirited, arrogant and belligerent until the very end. Sad, very sad.
Talk about your poor winners!! How strange it would seem to a normal person to see that a fringe supporter of the candidate who won an overwhelming victory still obsessing over the defeated candidate. What deep twisted pathology this demonstrates would be for an expert in abnormal psychology to diagnose, and not for me.
Any normal backer of the President would recognize that both political wisdom, and moral duty require them to make the sort of effort to reach out to the defeated candidate and his supporters that President Ford made in 1976 (not that it was all that much of an effort). On the other hand, a democrat disruptor, attempting to sow disharmony in Republican and conservative ranks, would be doing exactly what you are doing.
But whether you are a disruptor, a fool, or a psycho is a matter of complete indifference to me.