Libsmasher
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Just a personnal opinion:
A democratic victory in this election was virtually inevitable. The only way the republicans stood a chance was to steer the nomination to Obama(hence away from Hillary). When Obama was nominated, I personnally thought that the republicans were going to win. I never thought that this country would elect a black man. I admit that I'm still extremely skeptical that Obama can win, but if he does, the republicans have only themselves to blame. They put so much resources into making sure the dem they were running against wasn't Hillary, they ended up with a poor nominie themselves.
The notion that the republicans wanted Hillary as the dem candidate, I've always considered to be just blowing smoke up everyone's butt.
I agree that the republicans are to blame. Certainly, Obama isn't getting in on his merit - he doesn't have any. Note that other than the iraq war, which Bush fought in the internationalist tradition of former republicans, Bush is a RINO. He presided over huge spending - the congressional republicans forgot what it means to be a conservative. He did nothing to stop the illegal alien invasion. He did nothing for the conservative social agenda. He allowed the return of the "affirmative action" frankenstein. He's thrown billions of dollars down the africa AIDS rat hole. He caved on ecofascism. When republicans act like republicans, they win. When they act like crypto-democrats, they lose.