We may never know why things turned out the way they did. History will probably attribute the result of the presidential election of 2008 to a number of different factors. Republicans abandoned their conservative principles and nominated a RINO for the top of the ticket. Whether that was due to the fact that there just wasn't anyone else qualified to take on the Democrats may take years to determine. The GOP has been in shambles since 2006, and the liberal left was just poised to take advantage of that fact. It also didn't help that McCain sputtered during the last...