Well, this was just a matter of time. After 18 months of incompetence and a total lack of leadership, voters are beginning to have buyer’s remorse, thinking that maybe things would have been better off if McCain had won.

Democrats will be gulping this morning at the Quinnipiac Poll’s latest results. For the first time in the survey’s history, Americans believe by a 48% to 40% margin that President Obama doesn’t deserve re-election. Almost as stinging, a plurality believe the country would have been better off if John McCain had beaten Mr. Obama in 2008.

… Mr. Obama’s approval rating continues to slide, and is dragging his party down. While last July Mr. Obama had a 57% positive rating, Quinnipiac now pegs him at just 44% approval — a number below President Bill Clinton’s approval rating just before his party lost control of Congress in 1994. When asked which party they plan to vote for this November, likely voters in the Quinnipiac survey picked Republicans by 43% to 38%. This was despite an expressed lack of confidence in the ability of Republican leaders in Congress to tackle the nation’s problems.

Smitty wonders if we’d still have the tea parties, or if voters would be so energized to take the country back had McCain won instead of Obama. He’s probably right in that we wouldn’t. Only Obama’s brand of sheer destruction and incompetence could have done that. I still would just love to know where these people were in 2008 when they saddled us with the clown.

Better late than never, I guess.