funny... the American Idol contestant put McCain to shame on the economy when it came down to it.
or maybe mccain shouldn't have picked sarah "I love the pro-America parts of the country" Palin.
silly...
the Republican party should not have picked McCain....period....[/QUOTE]
Agreed - but he was more the choice of the leftist media. He was a weaker, older, uncertain candidate who they pushed forward as a great comeback story - only to tear him down once he secured the nomination. All the while Obama was vaulted as the great new "Change"...with little to no investigative reporting of just what that meant.
That being said, the Bush fatigue was pronounced -any Republican candidate would have had difficulty winning this time around.
The real threat to the Obama coronation was Palin, and the media did everything to diminish her as a candidate, governor, mother, wife, and woman. She struck a chord with millions in America, and that shook the media to the core. Regardless of your personal feelings toward her, the media attacks against her were deplorable. The media invested far more time and resources investigating every aspect of her life than all of the things lying in Obama's political and personal closet. At no time in our history has the media become an extension of the Democrat Party as it did then - and continues to be now.
There will be a backlash to this...it is fomenting right now. Whether or not it will manifest in a credible campaign in 2012 remains to be seen. But the pendulum will swing against Obama and these leftist Democrats.