During the campaign, I shared that thought. But, having seen his Senate campaign close-up, I wasn't quite so sure. It is more than likely, IMHO, that he would have done no better than McCain. His vague and deliberately uncontroversial and unmemorable speaking style is a little like Obama's, but not as good, and he has, again IMHO, absolutely no instinct for the jugular. Perhaps more important, he is not a programmatic thinker. At least he hasn't shown it. In his campaign, like McCain's, there was no theme ... no platform ... no sense what you're supposed to get for your vote. Confusion.
Tellingly, IMHO, he looked very bad in his MD campaign ... didn't even get much of the African-American vote.
Free Republic has become the site in which we eat our own and it is very off-putting
"Family" arguments are brutal. But I don't think you need worry about where FR votes are going. This is more like a revolutionary site, because we are together attempting whether or not to kill (OK "abandon") or cure the Republican Party. It is ironic that the political party that began with a strongly religious crusade to free African-Americans from slavery and paid over 300,000 union lives to succeed, now cannot even get 3% of their descendants to vote for it.
Nowhere is it written on stainless steel that the GOP will ... or is even supposed to ... last forever.