In 1976, the democrat party could have put a poodle up as the candidate for president and gotten it elected. The American people were tired of Viet Nam, tired of Nixon and unimpressed with Gerry Ford and generally pissed off much like they're going to be in 2012!
Had I known that Reagan was going to win in 1980, I'd have made the military a career, since the nuclear peanut farmer was my CINC, I decided to hand in my papers!
Lets hope that the GOP can find something resembling a candidate and not another lame duck like McCain. Is Palin that person? I doubt it but she's at least talking the talk and getting her lovely mug out there and making people think!