Good point. But there was also Chuck Baldwin. Anyway, my point is that the GOP should cut the blame game stuff. For the past 40 years the Federal government has grown just as much, if not more, under Republican presidents than Democrat presidents. That’s a disgrace. Sarah Palin was a good move, but apparently too late in the game. Next time, let’s hope we have a conservative at the top of the ticket (Mark Sanford, for example, being one of my favorites).
Ah, but in the states we're talking about in this thread, the Baldwin factor doesn't apply because he wasn't on the ballot. You could make a legitimate case that Baldwin was to the right of McCain. However, in North Carolina, only McCain, Obama, and Barr were on the ballot. 25,000 people voted for Barr. How many of those were self-described "conservatives"? Enough that could have tilted the state to Palin if they had actually voted for a conservative?
If they want to vote for a "more conservative" candidate, that's their choice, but I'm not going to let these Boob Barf voters (and they FAR outnumbered Baldwin voters even in states where BOTH were on the ballot) get away with claiming a vote for Boob Barf was a vote for conservativism. The half a million+ numbskulls that voted for Barf said they did so to "send a message", so I'm making sure everyone knows they voted for gay marriage, amnesty for illegals, surrendering the WOT, the cult of gorebull warming, etc. Their hero Ron Paul even specifically told them NOT to vote for Barr and they did so ANYWAY. They sent a message that they wanted liberalism and they're going to get it.
You could make a good case that the Bob Barr of 1998 was "more conservative" than McCain, but the Barr-Root ticket of 2008 was to LEFT of McCain-Palin. If that's the "direction" they want the GOP to go in, I don't want them in the GOP. Go join the RATs.