David Frum says it is over but for the shouting - some of this

[MISSDem]

will annoy you but still worth a read.
There are many ways to lose a presidential election. John McCain is losing in a way that threatens to take the entire Republican Party down with him.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/23/AR2008102302081.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

[dennysp]

1. Great article. I was hoping to see more conservatives repeat

this meme today. All I saw was the MSM working for the McCain campaign. That's alright. Our ground game is running the show.

[Strawman]

2. Its so much bigger than McCain. It's a complete intellectual bankruptcy

of the Republican party as we have come to know it since 1980.

It's a corrupt brand of crony capitalism that uncritically embraced deregulation until it bit them in their own rich asses along with the rest of us.

It's an arrogant and nationalistic neoconservative foreign policy that cloaks the interests of Big Oil and defense contractors in a WWE like spectacle of warped patriotism and militarism.

It's an ignorant rejection of science, empiricism, reason and tolerance that plays to the worst strains of anti-intellectualism, bigotry and resentment based identity-politics found in American political culture.

John McCain is just the guy who sold his soul to the devil to navigate his way to the top of the presidential ticket of this bankrupt party and is left holding the bag.

[Demeter]

3. This GOP Is Going Down Because of BushCo, Reagan, Rove and Poppy

It was doomed when Shrub stole the first election, but it was pretty wobbly before that. Oh, I forgot Gingrich, and his successors in HOuse and SEnate leadership positions, the convicted, as we call them....

[bermudat]

4. David Frum is scum.

For a speechwriter, he is so totally unaware of his words.

''The government now owns a big stake in the nation's banking system. Trillions of dollars are now under direct government control. It's not wise to put that money under one-party control. It's just too tempting. You need a second set of eyes on that cash. You need oversight and accountability. Otherwise, you're going to wake up two years from now and find out that a Democratic president, a Democratic Senate and a Democratic House have been funneling a ton of that money to their friends and allies. It'll be a big scandal -- but it will be too late. The money will be gone. Divided government is the best precaution you can have."

The repugs have had the presidency and both houses and have been 'funneling' no contract bids to

their friends. Now that Dems may be in power, oh noooo, there can't be one party system.

Repugs obviously aren't aware of Dems propensity of stabbing each other in the back. Nancy Pelosi

will put impeachment back on the table now.