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I’m not buying it. McCain, like Dole, fought the good fight. If there is any FR tendency that I dislike, it’s that FReepers all too often turn on good men like Dole and McCain.

I don’t think Palin hurt McCain’s chances. I just disagree on the level to which some think she helped. I don’t think she helped much at all, other think she’s the second coming of Ronald Reagan. Time will tell who’s right.

I see two uncomplimentary trains of thought concerning post-election analysis that haven't quite yet met, so I'll join them.

Yes, McCain lost his chance for the coveted Oval Office, quite possibly because Democrats made him a symbol of the much-despised GW Bush, the monster who "stole" the 2000 election from Al Gore.

On the other hand, Dick Morris seems to be suggesting that no political party in their right minds should want to be in control of DC in the next few years. This because the predicted banking crisis tsunami (my words) is quite possibly going to make fools out of whichever party has "control" of DC in the next few years. Here's Morris's link if you haven't already seen it.

http://www.newsmax.com/morris/republicans_stronger/2008/11/06/148571.html

In other words, in contrast to the Hollywood-style campaigning that we saw in this election, if the political parties had been realistic about the predicted consequences of the banking crisis, then they should actually have decided the election in the following manner. They should have drawn toothpicks to see which party gets stuck with DC this time around, the party pulling the shorter toothpick getting the "honor" of having "control" of DC in the next few years.

In fact, based on what Morris has said, not only am I thankful that Sarah did not go to DC at this time, especially if she has goals for 2012, I am also questioning if G-d has possibly given Obama control of the Oval Office so that he has to reap the consequences of his shady contribution to the banking disaster.

Bush let the Democrats roll him for eight years. He lost the respect of almost everybody. Reagan could go over the heads of the media and speak directly to the people. Bush never had that skill or the fire in the belly to fight back.

Bush could have really put the hurt on the Democrats back when he knew about the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac train wreck coming and still might have made a difference. He failed.

McCain couldn't overcome the hole in which Bush put the Republicans.

If republicans had stood by President Bush, then his negatives wouldn't have been so low and he could have handed off to another republican. But no, the republicans slammed Bush as much as the looney left.

I have never seen a leader abandoned so completely by his own side. The only ones who stuck to him and still believe in him are the military.

Did he make mistakes? Yeah, they all do (Lebanon anyone?) but there were NONE who stood by President Bush.