re: #34 HappyWarrior

I think you could call it a mistake given the tone of the 2008 campaign but he wasn’t wrong for his approach. That’s all on McConnell and Boehner.

It’s not that his approach was wrong — it was his belief that the outcome would be different from how it turned out. He was too optimistic that he could persuade the GOP to work in the best interests of the country. Maybe it was too much time spent in Illinois where the GOP party was much more moderate because it had to work with a Democratic legislature. Also recall that Senator Peter Fitzgerald was ostracized by the Republican party because he and Hillary got along. He was a model of the old school Republicans, as was Governor George Ryan (criminal that he was).