I don’t blame the McCain campaign for neutralizing Sarah’s impact on the election. On the contrary I think Sarah impacted the election by holding SRO rallies and not allowing Obama’s victory to get out of hand. If her credibility was diminished it was the fault of the MSM who have had Sarah in their sights everyday for the last two months. Remember most of this infighting hogwash was not known to the public until after the election. If anybody is to blame for the defeat it would be McCain and not Sarah but I will not go there either. Not that I am an apologist, but George Bush and the financial meltdown doomed any chances that the McCain campaign could have won the election. McCain was either tied with or slightly ahead of Obama before the meltdown; after the meltdown McCain’s poll numbers plummeted; John could never recover; again Sarah kept the spread between he and Obama respectable by energizing the base. It was a Democrat year and thus Obama became the benefactor of it.
While you may be correct about the economy hurting McCain, what is unforgivable to me is that McCain ALLOWED the Fannie Mae meltdown to be assigned to Republicans. He weakly spouted off a few names but never forcefully pushed it. He flinched on the bailout and looked confused. He maligned capitalism in a cynical wash of finger-pointing. It was disgusting. No principle. I don’t think Palin would have allowed that to happen.