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McCain revisited

John McCain MUST be reviled as someone who should have known he could not win the Presidency. He should be reviled for not stepping aside in favor of a candidate who had a chance. This campaign could have been won...even by McCain...but he didn't have the will. He didn't have any political smarts and he refused to hire those who do to advise him. A candidate may not succeed in his quest but he must, at the outset, know what must be done in order to prevail. I saw none of that in McCain. Sarah Palin? I can only ask who else? She was the shovel whose insurmountable task was to dig McCain out of the pit. She was tapped very late in the game. Odds are she will be much better prepared the next time. At least, she understands Conservatism in a way that McCain never did. The office is such that it must be pursued with the idea that only one term is available. It is, then, imperative that the candidate sell his ideas to the public in terms that are frank, even frightening, so long as they are identified as fighting words. We fear the unknown because we don't know how to anticipate it. Ergo, the candidate must lay out the facts as well as his solutions, and defend his recitation in the face of objections by the Democrats. Conservatism is not dead. It is not even weakened! What it lacks is a spokesman skilled in hammering it home to the public at every opportunity and a coterie of supporters in the Congress who are equally talented and who will speak with one voice. This is essential! We bumpkins from the hinterlands understand this. How is it that the sophisticated talking heads in the Party don't have a clue!