Sarah Palin is just the gift that keeps on giving. McCain must really be getting senile in his old age if he was dumb enough to pick her. Throughout the post-primary season, he seemed like he was trying to appease the conservative base, which is NOT what you should try to do to get elected, especially when your party is incredibly unpopular.
If you would have asked me before the main election cycle started, I would have told you McCain would have tried to run as moderate of a campaign as possible, but in actuality he has been running as conservative a campaign as possible.
He really doomed himself for failure from Day 1 by running a non-substantive, tax-cutting, fearmongering, traditional Republican campaign rather than a substantive one that sought to incorporate moderates and Democrats.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
