[supercat]

We had a candidate available with awesome private sector experience. His name is Mitt Romney. Now you’re trying to convince me that some lady who ran a little local fishing business with her husband is qualified because she has “private sector experience”. Maybe you can’t see what a pathetic joke that is, but most of the country can, and Obama is laughing all the way to the White House. Our nation could ill afford this sort of idiotic political blunder at this critical point in our history.

We might be better off with Mitt Romney than we are with John McCain, but given that--like it or not--John McCain is at the top of the ticket, the VP spot had to be someone who could attract both swing voters and the base. I can think of nobody would could do nearly as good a job at attracting both groups. Certainly Mitt Romney would not have.

Perhaps Mitt Romney would make a better President than would Sarah Palin, but what of it? Would it be better to lose with a McCain-Romney ticket than to win with a McCain-Palin ticket? I see no reason to believe so.

[GovernmentShrinker]

Barring some total disaster for the Obama campaign within the next couple of weeks, “winning with a McCain-Palin ticket” isn’t one of our options. Sure, I’d love it if that kooky API call “from Michelle Obama” actually turned out to be from her and could be proven so in the next few days, but that’s grasping at straws, which is what we’re reduced to at this point.

I can only hope this massive blunder and its terrible outcome teaches the GOP movers and shakers a lesson, so that they’ll start getting serious candidates lined up for 2012. Obama’s 4 year tenure is likely to be a miserable time for the country, regardless of what he does. But most of the voting public will blame him anyway, so we’ll very likely have a chance to retake the White House in 4 years.