The main point I was making in my first post is still there; something is wrong, deeply wrong, with a system that has put Nixon, both Bushes, Clinton and Carter into power in the last 50 years. What is it?

What’s mostly wrong is a deeply partisan media. They coverup for and favorably spin Democrats, so you get feckless jackasses (Carter) or disreputable cretins (Clinton). On the Republican side, anyone of any value is attacked mercilessly, so you tend to get blander types like the Bushes surviving the primary process. It takes people of huge stature like Reagan (let’s not forget how they demonized him as well) to break through. Or it takes the Democrats to choose someone as hopeless as Kerry to lose after they had beaten Bush to a pulp.

Also, the level of partisanship continues to increase, to the point now where there isn’t even a pretense of objectivity. Obama, with all his skeletons, gets zero vetting from the press for months on end. With Palin, every tiny little imperfection in her life is broadcast 24 hours a day. I’ve never seen anything like it. How far will it go? Will they tell us that once in fourth grade she got caught passing notes in class?

Had Obama been given that scrutiny he’d probably be in jail by now.