Agreed. But there were so many failures without a conservative defense, that the only option for the GOP was to try to pass off McCain as something new. They couldn’t and didn’t run on ‘lets keep this great conservative estabishment going’ . Even if a conservative started using ‘the failed obama administration’ he would have people on the other side falling all over themselves to point to ‘successes’. As a president you can either succeed or stick to party principals. (The great ones do both). If you fail your party, and fail the country you have no where else to go. Id take Sr. and Bill over another bout of W. Maybe I’m still angry and the wound is still too fresh to see this clearly, and I can believe that with time my prospective may change.
Foisting McCain on us was an even bigger mistake than Romney, at least Romney was a successful business man.
I would GLADLY take Bill Clionton over Obam or for that matter W.
At least clinton got us to a balanced budget and actual welfare reform (to a degree) - Although it was only thanks to Newt.
The Media learned from that- if they had pushed and pushed harder those evil republicans would not have had to make poor clinton balance that budget.