I've suspected it for months. After all, the brand has been damaged by GWB, perhaps permanently. How can Republicans claim to be fiscally conservatives with the credit-card orgy of the past 8 years? With our financial institutions teetering on ruin? How can Republicans claim to be social conservatives, when the religious right is finally realizing how they've been used. How can Republicans claim to come together under John McCain, when he was eviscerated in by Rove in his last bid for the White House?
And now this pathetic attempt at pandering to disaffected Clinton supporters. Who presumably are hoping McCain will die soon so we'll have the first woman president. A woman president who's on the wrong side of most feminist positions.
They don't want to win. They want to distance themselves from the criminal misdoings of the last 8 years.
Yes, there are some die-hard wingnuts who figure any Republican, even a RINO, is preferable to any Democrat.