[Don Myers]

Maybe, he had bad campaign advice. Maybe, he was trying to move the Repubs to the right, or get them to adopt a few of his ideas if he pulled enough votes. Anyway, "Taliban Pat" is a little strong. It smacks of moderates, or even leftists, trying to vilify the right.

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Don Myers wrote: Maybe, he had bad campaign advice. etc.

And maybe it's because he sucked as a candidate.

What kind of conservative would select a lesbian Stalinist as his running mate and then allow her to drag him to kiss Al Sharpton's ring?

I have to say that I don't think that I would want anybody who let his advisers saddle him with this kind of advice to be president of any country that I was living in.