the question posed deserves no answer, but I provided a couple.
please stick to relevant info. The disappointment from the R side is the fact that Bush has been a neocon in everything BUT spending and big government, which is THE place we most want a neocon. In all other matters, social and international, he has been a neocon. I'd forgive him all the other gaffes if he'd shown some fiscal restraint during the period when he had free reign due to the overly sympathetic congress.
McCain has been raising money and mending fences with the social conservatives. That is what he did in Nashville yesterday. He is not who they want but they are not stupid enough to think that an Obama presidency will be good for them. The Clintons represented centrist democrats, the old DLC people from the 1990s. Those are the types of Ds who have been doing well in the special congressional elections. Obama represents the leftist/socialist wing. I think a lot of Ds assume that things are so bad that the D will be elected no matter who he/she is, so they have decided to go for the big prize and run a tax and spend liberal. It'll be interesting to see how it all shakes out. Either we'll have four more years of essentially the same thing we've had since the late 1980s. Or we will take away guns and destroy the middle class with crushing taxes so everyone can go to a goverment physician and send their kids to publicly funded pre-K beginning at age 3.
