You Republicans responsible for picking John McCain to be our (yes, I'm a Republican too) candidate for president ought to be taken out and shot.  We needed a candidate who knows how to take prisoners, not one who knows how to be one.  And, that's just what McCain turned out to be in tonight's debate; Obama's prisoner.

I don't know how its possible for an educated, experienced man like McCain to miss every single opportunity to score points in a debate.  But, tonight he did it.  We Republicans, and especially we conservative Republicans, have strong arguments and points to make on every issue discussed in the debate.  We have strong positions, supported by confirmed facts which impugn Obama's ethical and moral qualifications to be president.  We have strong social and economic arguments, supported by historical precedent to discredit Obama's stated plans and goals.  And John McCain failed us utterly.

I don't know McCain personally.  However, I have gotten the impression that he is just too nice a guy.  He's so nice he can't get tough with Obama.  Either that, or he really agrees with everything about Obama, and is struggling just to stay in character as Obama's opponent.  I guess it would be tough to run effectively against someone you agree with on all the issues.

I knew this was going to turn out this way.  I was so disillusioned following our convention.  I couldn't understand how we Republicans could have made such a bad mistake.  Then, after Sarah Palin was chosen I experienced a brief resurgence of enthusiasm.  She certainly hasn't done anything to let me down.  But, McCain's lack luster performance, culminating in tonight's gawd-awful debate, has me throughly depressed.

It's just not possible that a radical left Marxist socialist will be elected President of the United States, is it?

I'm looking at our currency and other indices of national identification.  How does "USSA," the "United Socialist States of America" sound?  I think there's probably room for it if we just make the fonts a little smaller.

PS: Don't get me wrong, I'm voting for McCain.  But, believe me when I say my vote is not based on his performance as a candidate.