Want to know why McCain lost? Because he hired morons.

We are now four days out from the election of CHANGE (brought to you by the media) and John McCain remains a smoking political ruin, as well he should. But that hasn't stopped some of his former minders from coming out and insulting Sarah Palin, claiming she's the reason he lost the election.

You've probably heard it by now--the $150,000 clothing budget, that Palin didn't know Africa was a continent, that she didn't know who was in NAFTA, that she was "rogue," yadda yadda yadda.

Palin has labeled the people who have spread this stuff "jerks," which is an understatement. They're also complete morons. Why? Because 1) they can't admit they (and their candidate) are the reason they lost and 2) they have committed career suicide.

Let's get this out there: Sarah Plain is NOT why John McCain lost on Tuesday. In fact, now that we see the numbers and know that they were almost identical, in terms of turnout, we know that McCain didn't lose in a groundswell of new voters, either. In other words, had he kept the Bush '04 voters, he wins. He didn't, because a large portion of those voters did not like John McCain.

John McCain lost because he and his people ran a campaign that would look longingly at those of Bush 41 in 1992 and Bob Dole in 1996. It was incompetent, naive, inconsistent and brought nothing new or insipring to the table. The only thing exciting and fresh McCain did offer was Sarah Palin. And, if you'll remember, her arrival on the scene gave McCain a lead for a couple of weeks.

Then the market crashed, McCain dithered, was going to skip the debate and then didn't, screwed up his involvement in the bailout and blew the election -- all by himself. Sarah Palin had nothing to do with it.

But that's not stopping his idiot minders from blasting her. Which, in a way, I'm quite happy about.

John McCain, politically, is dead. He should have been kaput after the 2000 election, when he tried to win the Republican nomination by fellating the media, and CERTAINLY should have been toast after flirting with John Kerry about taking his VP slot in 2004. He brings nothing to the table that's valid or worthwhile, and his panderings about a bi-partisan approach will help the Democrats get near their blessed supermajority in the Senate.

Thanks for nothing, John-boy.

Palin, on the other hand, has a future. She energized the Republican base and brought out more regular GOP voters to the polls than McCain would have gotten otherwise. In other words, the rout would have been worse had it not been for Palin. Republicans like her; liberals loathe her. The last three successful GOP presidential candidates (Reagan and two Bushes, one more so than the other) share those characteristics.

It is highly unlikely that the largest slanders Palin's suffering are true. They're likely the bitter spewings of a bunch of morons who were simply outclassed when it came time to show what they were made of. They're showing their stupidity agian by attacking Palin, because she has a future -- McCain does not. They've basically spit on someone whose star is on the rise while basking in the glow of a supernova they helped create.

Dumb.

Whoever said all this stuff about Palin has damned all the McCain campaign people. Try going into a Republican campaign with a prominent role in this debacle, followed with the amatuerish insults on a running mate, on your resume.

Good luck finding a job, gang. You'll never have the chance to screw up another campaign again--which, incidentally, is what I'm quite happy about.