Quote Originally Posted by loueedacat View Post
The republican party has to stop fighting the "last war". We don't need our own Obama, we need a candidate for what the nation will be facing in 2012 or 2016. Same problem of fighting the "last war" sunk Romney - he reinvented himself (in a phony way) as Bush, just in time for an election where the litmus test was how far you could distance yourself from Bush. If he'd been himself, Romney was what we needed in 2008. Oh well.
No sarah palin and McCain would have had a fighting chance.