Four years ago Martin Gibson said this place would light up like Times square if Kerry got in. And he was right.

Maccain had this awful job - rather like when Margaret Thatcher was screwing up everything and HAD to be got rid of, and poor old John Major had the job of leading a party that thought maggie was a genius.

And when you think back. I remember talking to Republicans who were embarassed to find themselves required to vote for Reagan: downright pissed off to find themselves voting for the second Bush - wasn't John MacCain ten times a better candidate than either of them?


A pity he got stuffed with Sarah Palin, the moose taker. The republican pundit on tv, was saying how she had energised conservative votes - but in truth he was always always going to get those votes. I think people just looked at her and saw the same sort of cynical rightwing populist claptrap that Bush 2 and Reagan were so good at.

What do you think?