Game on!  The McCain/Palin ticket was off to Ohio right away to campaign.  Palin mostly stuck to the same speech as at the RNC.  It was fine at first but became frustrating.  I didn't know her and most people probably didn't either.  Conservatives, Moderates, etc, needed to know what this dynamic woman was about.  The McCain campaign went off the rails at this point.  I thought the idea behind Palin's selection was not only her Maverick credentials, but that McCain was finally going to reach out to Conservatives instead of only Democrats.  The McCain campaign sent Palin off to liberal news outlets instead for interviews with Katie Curic and Charlie Gibson.  It was a disaster.  Palin was confined to the McCain talking points and not allowed to speak her mind.  What in the heck is the point of having a Conservative woman on the ticket if you are going to make her push the Moderate agenda?  Duh...Steve Schmidt!  Palin was obviously frustrated although she made up ground in the VP debate against gaffe machine Senator Joe Biden.  Of course, McCain was no more effective in his debates with Obama.  The economic crisis was now at the front.  A crisis start by President Jimmy Carter via the Community Reinvestment Act, expanded by President Clinton, feebly opposed by President Bush, and protected by Senator Chris Dodd and Rep Barney Frank.  What ever hope was left in the McCain/Palin ticket was lost here.  President Bush and ignoramus/cronie protectionist Henry Paulson came up with the $700 billion TARP bill.  A bill meant to save American from immediate collapse.  Let me get this straight...  The country of the Greatest Generation that survived so much in its history was in trouble of falling apart?  Not likely, but the bill went forward.  McCain did something gutsy at this point.  McCain suspended his campaign and rushed back to Washington to help.  I understood McCain's strategy, but the execution was moronic.  McCain did very little and ended up voting for the bill even after the House rejected it once and a HUGE percentage of Americans were against it.  This was the end for McCain.  McCain should have voted against the bill and left President Bush, House Speaker Pelosi, Senator Leader Harry Reid, and all the other wishy washy politicians to defend their decision.  Instead, McCain's already dropping poll numbers went lower and he was eventually defeated in the election.  Not by the great margin predicted, but by enough.  Senator Barack Obama had become the 44th President of the United States of America.  Palin?  Palin was hung out to dry by the McCain campaign.  Her usefulness had obviously come to an end.  It was just despicable to see how the McCain camp treated her.  Palin went back to the business of Alaska with still high approval numbers and something to think about for 2012.  McCain?.  McCain was meeting with Obama and promising more Bipartisanship come the next year.  How lucky for all us Conservatives.  I understand my summarization of many blog entries into three postings has gaps, but we all know the end result.  No need to get into details of well thought out analysis.  What is done is done.  Time to move forward and work towards a resurgence of Conservatism and marginalization of Moderate Bipartisanship.