RAP
2008-11-04 22:46:32
McCain was the wrong candidate. I believe his defeat marks the end of the Republican party as we have known it. Since 1950 the Republicans have been the party of National Security. But no amount of frenzied effort on the part of right-wing media can convince the American people that Iran(with or without the bomb), Venezuela, N. Korea, even Al-Queda are the kind of threat that the Soviet Union was. In the future(actually the present)Republicans will have to run on domestic issues. That will mean having a clear economic plan which McCain did not. They must also face up to the truth that Reagan won because of his strong anti-Soviet stance not his neo-liberal economic ideas.
