John McCain's Coming 'Mea Culpa'

John McCain could have run a good campaign based on core Republican values. Instead, he ran against Obama's inexperience before choosing as a running mate someone who made those arguments look silly.

Obama's lack of executive experience would have been a strong talking point until the former mayor of Wassila entered the fray. Now, Obama need say nothing on the subject. Inexperience has dropped out of the Republican discourse this year.

With that much said, one has to wonder whether any Republican could win after the economy trumped all other topics. The middle class base of the Republican Party watched house values and investments shrink to nothing in the eighth year of Republican deregulation. This was one thing that the Republicans could not pin on the Democratic donkey.

Robert Davis of IL 7:00AM October 28, 2008