Republicans don’t fight back. Why shouldn’t they lose? And why don’t we question Republicans’ willingness to lose? 2.5M McCain voters stayed home this year — six times the size of Obama’s win in the vote. The big question, aside from the modeling screw-up, is why we all believed a Romney support by R’s that wasn’t there. I believe the most distressing view: R’s believe a crash is coming and want it hung around Obama’s neck.
Not judging the accuracy of the theme about GOPsters abandoning their man to let Obama hang -- I kinda don't think so, given the Supreme Court and Obamacare stakes, not even mentioning the threat that Obozo will now ram through the sovereignty-alienating U.N. treaties the Senate has refused to ratify, or even consider, ever since the Clinton administration -- I just wanted to mention that the idea of a crash impending and Republicans wanting a Democrat to be in charge when it arrives (reverse Hoover) was also current in 2007, as a way of explaining meagre Republican early-money giving.
The theory was that Hillary's presidency was a foregone conclusion, which was fine with the Republican masters of the universe, who wanted her standing there when the financial avalanche arrived at the bottom of the hill.
Then Hank the Shank and Helicopter Ben knifed Lehman Brothers, and the avalanche arrived before Mr. Bush could get out of the way, and we've had to listen to that "it's all Bush's fault" crap ever since. How embarrassing.