[dirtboy]

Pretending Abramoff and other scandals wasn’t a big deal is precisely what cost the GOP and Hayworth in 2006 - corruption polled ahead of the Iraq War as to concerns of anti-GOP voters in exit polling. I’d hope we could learn from mistakes instead of rushing headfirst to repeat them.

[Jim Robinson]

GTH.

[Tuxedo]

The Abramoff scandal won't be a big deal in the primary (think Keating), but in the general, that is a different story. While I doubt very much that JD will outpoll McCain, I am hopeful that he puts enough of a scare in McCain that he lurches back to the right. But that will only suffice until the day after election day. McCain (a true American hero many years ago) is all over the place politically.

I am more focused on taking away Dem seats with as Conservative a candidate as we can find. In some states, we know we can only get so far (CA, NY, VT, CT, WA, DE). McCain ought to just retire. Some of these guys need to go back to private life. How much value is WV getting out of Sheets these days?