I disagree.
We didn’t turn our back on Bush. He turned HIS back on us - time and again.
He was also a very poor communicator. And although he DID win two elections, the margins were needlessly close. Kerry and Al Gore aren;t especially bright men. Gore in particular is a scientific idiot.
The election was lost because the Economy tanked, McCain was ineffective in communicating to the American public the deep complicity of the Democrats - particularly the President-Elect, in creating the problem, and McCain himself was simply the wrong candidate. McCain was too old, not photogenic, not well spoken and hjardly charismatic. His opponent was all those things.
The Republican Party continues to amble, an ineffective anachronism which is increasingly unable to effectuate its own objectives or those of the people who support it.
America still IS a center - right country, but will not remain so for much longer unless the issues of the leftist major media monopoly, the propagandization of school and college students by the leftist NEA, and the inability to erach out to the gropwing Hispanic and Asian American populations are not bridged.
Either there has to be a major shake-up of the Republican Party leadership or it should be shoved aside by a new political party, as effective as the Democrats and liberals are in the political arena, but wedded to a conservative, traditional and more populaist political philosophy.
Just my take on this - it is really sort of subjective.
Well said. You can take that to the bank.