How can George HW Bush's term of 4 years after Reagan's be worse than 8 years of Dubya with possibly, in the view of many, the biggest foreign policy mistake ever?
Because those four years of George HW *CREATED* the 8 years of Bill Clinton.
Still, I think McCain could have been elected if the economy had not turned south,
Nope. It was just the media hyperventilating about the "economy turning south." They wanted to portray the party in power as a failure, and this is how they did it. They also ignored the fact that the reason the economy went south is because of Bill Clinton.
If you haven't seen this video, you *NEED* to see this video. It explains how Bill Clinton (and others) *CAUSED* the housing crises, which caused the financial crises of 2008.
http://youtu.be/1RZVw3no2A4The media was going to hammer the economy to damage Republicans, just as they did in 2006.
also, I don't hold the view but I do know folks who think it was a big mistake to choose Palin.
Because the media said so. Because the media pulled out all the stops to attack and savage her. They were all "Woman Power" until John McCain pulled one of their own plays out of their own book and made the election about gender.
Suddenly they *HATED* "Woman Power" because this woman represented a political ideology they hated, and so therefore they had to attack her and destroy her despite her accomplishments which would be the envy of any of their liberal woman @$$wipes they would have supported.
"Palin is not one of us." Was their attitude. She did not go to fancy schools and she did not toe the liberal party line. She represented a threat to their gender identity politics because everything she did and everything she was was anathema to what they claimed was good for women and society.
She was the "Clarence Thomas" of Gender politics. Someone who was very successful and competent, but whom the media could not allow to be seen as a hero or even respectable.
Your friends hated Palin, not because she was actually bad, but because the media brainwashed them with their tricks and propaganda to believe Palin was bad.
Had Palin been Elizabeth Warren, the media would have convinced everyone she was the Greatest Woman on the face of the planet! (Like they are currently trying to do with that Psychotic Hate-Witch Hillary.)