Reply #13: Nice theory, but who the hell would they come up with? [View All]

Romney? Absolutely NO traction during the primaries, the corporate repugs like him, but the rank and file party activists completely rejected him. The evangelicals are as likely to vote for a mormon, as the KKK are to vote for a black man.

Huckabee? The rank and file like him, but the corporatists will close off the purse strings and let him wither and die. For the corporatists and globalists, Obama would be more to their liking. Plus Huckabee, while likable, is a fundy whose views are way outside the mainstream, and he holds some batshit crazy ideas. He'd be an easier target for the Dems than McCain.

...and none of the other candidates made so much as a dent in the proceedings. As far as other republicans with a national folowing...well, they got none. At least none that are electable in todays political enviroment. No, the republicans have no one, especially with Bush's approval ratings having sunk lower than whaleshit. McCain, a repug with a national reputation for being an "independent" and a "maverick" was their best hope, and the wheels are coming off that cart. At this point all they can do is run with what they got, try to minimize the damage, and limit the blue wave, and then hope the Dems self destruct, if not before November, then during the next four years.