Why Republicans Can't Govern

Want to know why Republicans are so inept at actually governing, once they get elected?

It's because for them, it's ONLY about being elected:

McCain seems to have made a choice that many politicians succumb to but that he had always promised to avoid — he appears ready to do whatever it takes to win, even it if soils his reputation.

“We recognize it’s not going to be 2000 again,” McCain spokesman Brian Rogers said, alluding to the media’s swooning coverage of McCain’s ill-fated crusade against then-Gov. George W. Bush and the GOP establishment. “But he lost then. We’re running a campaign to win. And we’re not too concerned about what the media filter tries to say about it.”

Translation: We will lie, we will smear, we will do whatever we have to do in order to win, no matter how sleazy or underhand. As for what we're going to do afterwards, well, that's not the point. The point is to WIN. Because power is its own reward.