re: #566 Joel

My side lost because George W. Bush (unfairly) had made the Republican tag toxic, because of the over whelming media bias that refused to investigate Obama’s background, because of Barney Frank and Chris Dodd’s fucking up Fannie and Freddie, because a lot of guilt ridden people wanted the novelty of voting for a Black man despite his skimpy back ground, and the GOP nominated a Democrat Lite, a guy who pretty much disdained Republicans. It is amazing he lost by only 6 -7 % points.

Did McCain disdain undeserving republicans (like pork kings Trent Lott and Thad Cochran) or did the pork king republicans disdain McCain?

Limbaugh has spent the last 9 years savaging McCain, and a whole lot of Limbaugh’s extremely skewed opinions of McCain have become somehow accepted as factual information.

It’s an important point, because if the GOP wants to win elections, the fantasies of a single blowhard can’t determine how republican voters perceive our candidate.