Ok, McCain is dead wrong on this. McCain is a neocon, Rino, whatever. Above all he is a politician and a good one. However, I stand by my assessment that he is, unlike the new boss, at least a patriot and his base instinct would be to not drive America straight into the ditch if given a chance. But the best part? He's old news. Like Bob Dole, he had his shot, too old to go again. So all the screeching about McCain is just fun noise.
In our perfect world the perfect candidate would come along and rescue us in '12. Well, I'll bet on the Mayans first.
The next schlub will have faults just like McCain and Bush. It will be tempting to have a 3rd party candidate. It will be tempting to throw a screeching fit about all the new guy's RINO like faults.(Especially if Romney gets there). Trash the guy, just own up to it when you put Obama back in office for 4 years when he doesn't have to get elected.
The Left has no monopoly on hysteria. The lunatic fringe right will screw us over just as fast. I haven't heard one R name I like for 2012 except for unelectable Bobby Jindal but surely anyone will be better than Obama Episode II.
I know that I will get drawn and quartered for this, the well trodden argument against 3rd parties. We need them since we will never abolish parties all together. We need them at state and local, we need them in Congress, we may need them in the white house, I'm just not seeing 2012 as the time.
And now, the moment you've all been waiting for.....yeah, that's right.......
...........GODWIN!!!!!
I am again reminded how the NSDAP never came close to winning a majority in the Reichstag. But they got their man installed anyway. Lie to the working class about sweeping social reform, then they cozied up to the right just long enough to make themselves politically unassailable. Divide and conquer. If I'm David Axelrod right now I'm having every bit of non-sourceable campaign cash shovelled at any right wing 3rd party agitators. Lots of it.