It’s sure starting to look that way. We don’t yet know who the Democrats will put forward, but McCain is going to be hard to stop, and so many conservatives will now be bent on trashing him that Republicans will stay away from the polls in droves and the Democrats will win, regardless. That’s right, conservatives will probably do as much or more as progressives to win this election for Democrats. Gomer Pyle could get elected as a Democrat this time. I think the tough question for Republicans is the one that hasn’t yet been asked: how is it that conservatives put forward such a stunningly mediocre slate of candidates for this election?
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“How is it that conservatives put forward such a stunningly mediocre slate of candidates for this election?”
I think many prospective Republican candidates realized that this election would be almost impossible for them to win with the current public feelings about the Bush presidency, so potentially promising people (though as a Canadian, I don’t know who they might have been) simply stayed away from the candidacy race.
Better, strategically, to wait until whoever wins for the Democrats has a record to run against, rather than trying either to justify the Bush legacy or to deflect attention away from it.