One is McCain's age and history of cancer.

The other is our current officeholder who has exceeded the boundaries of the office and often has usurped power that ordinarily goes to Cabinet secretaries. Cheney was/is accountable to no one yet should get a great deal of the blame for the disasterous foreign policy decisions of Bush's first term, and the decision to use torture on enemy combatants, the poor relationship we have with other world powers and the Plame fiasco.

McCain is not a good candidate. His shortcomings are his own and his poor performances in the debates and the flailing direction of his campaign are his own responsibility.

The conservatives will be pumped up enough after 4 years under socialist rule to keep those support dollars flowing into the governor's campaign coffers.

It was a risky pick that fell flat, mostly because the rest of the country is tired of the same old, same old. The tried and true reliance on free markets, tax cuts, an aggressive foreign policy and endless oil drilling have not solved the nation's woes– only added to them. The voters are just not buying what they are selling this time– which is one reason that Obama has risen to the top so spectacularly and raised a fountain of campaign cash.