My friends, I come to praise Senator McCain, not to bury him. Despite lame speeches in front of green backgrounds, his ostrich-like insistence that the fundamentals of our economy were sound, and and bestowing the gift of Sarah Palin's VP nomination on thankful political satirists, I still think McCain was the strongest candidate the Republicans could have run in 2008. Yet running their strongest candidate was a bad strategic choice for the GOP.

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