Fair Game
OK, here's the deal: If Sarah Palin ever again evinces the slightest interest in becoming a presidential candidate then she's fair game. Otherwise, let Alaskans take care of her. The press should leave her alone. Tying up loose ends of stories about what a pathetic hillbilly idiot she is is one thing, but constantly blaming her for Republican defeat is something else. It's not fair. The press should blame John McCain for picking her and ask whether he'd intended all along to make her the scapegoat. Whatever, he should have known better. Riffle through McCain's many faults instead, until it's clear exactly how and why he made such a monstrous mistake.
Posted by George Kenney on November 8, 2008 3:21 AM 
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McCain was the Democrats favourite Republican (McCain-Feingold, McCain-Kennedy, and frequent other instances of siding with the Democrats). This was so until he ran for president, of course.
Republicans knew all along that McCain has many deficiencies, not least the lack of loyalty to his own party and to their conservative base. This is why he could not muster excitement in his own party about his candidacy, and that doomed him in this election against a candidate who ran on the advantage of promising to bring social justice into the American project.
Obama has many flaws as well, not least his upbringing by the hard left. Whether he can transcend this, remains to be seen. He may yet be snookered, like Jimmy Carter, by a bad economy and other international circumstances outside his control.
The bad economy in Jimmy Carter's day, of course, was caused by the peaking of American oil in the lower 48 in 1971, forever shifting the energy balance away from the USA to her sworn enemies. OPEC exploited this, and Carter paid the price.
That world supplies of oil, and as rumors have it, also of natural gas, will probably peak during Obama's administration (this will definitely happen if he is re-elected), and this may yet bring Carter's nightmare to Obama as well.
Posted by: rensburg | November 8, 2008 10:32 AM