GOP contest: "an increasingly bitter and personal struggle"

The latest Reuters/CSPAN/Zogby tracking poll of Florida Republicans shows a tie between McCain and Romney. No wonder those two are getting so nasty. Have at it:

Mitt Romney and John McCain are in an increasingly bitter and personal struggle to control the campaign conversation before Florida's primary on Tuesday - and the Republican presidential nomination itself may go to the one who succeeds.

So, basically, the Republicans will nominate whichever candidate can outdo the other on the bitterness scale. Okay.

McCain wants the GOP campaign to focus on Iraq. Romney wants the emphasis on the failing economy. Iraq and the economy are two of George Bush's worst failures -- but that's what the GOP's top two candidates want to run on. The 2008 campaign should focus on the failed legacy of George Bush and what he's done to the U.S. and the world. It's a testament to the pathetic state of the Republican party that their front runners are fighting over the mantle of that failed legacy. No wonder the GOP base is so disillusioned.