I was speaking to some members of the College Republicans here in TN and suggested that this would be McCain's best argument. They agreed, in theory, that it was. But they worried it would sell Congress out.

McCain is well-suited to make this case given his "maverick" brand. But it might be too late. He now just looks erratic. And when he starts to sell Congress out for the GOP, he loses surrogates. It's very hard to maintain any coherent message when Congressional surrogates are gone.

McCain now hates Palin's guts and tossed Congressional Republicans under the bus. A Republican in NEBRASKA is tying himself to Obama and Norm Coleman refused to appear with McCain Firday.

Ah, yes, more obscure reasons to elect McCain.  Because, hey, in an economic crisis rivaling the Great Depression, we want a divided government that doesn't operate efficiently.

Next, maybe he'll announce a program of giving free beer to people who visit the White House on Fridays.

It's a little late for republicans to be worried about this.  All the years they stuck with Bush and they voted with him, his lies, and the repug ideology way of thinking, paved the way for their demise, now.  The religious wacko, fundamentalist part of the party was digging their graves long ago.  I think Bush owes them all big time for their loyalty to him, and the only way he can repay them is to spend the next 3 weeks appearing with them all at campaign rallies, and political appearances and at least do SOMETHING to help them out in their moment of need.

he styme everything Congressional Democrats want to do leading to four more years of stalemate.

Yeah that's going to win plenty of crossover votes.

I do think that folks used to consider the pros/cons of divided government in the past.  I know I did.  But then again, while I voted for Clinton and Gore, I didn't register as a Democrat until Bush helped drive the alternative off a cliff.

In this election year I think it is different.  People want a government that works.  Even the more conservative folks I've talked to recently acknowledge how broken things are, and that at least we should have people running our government who believe it can help.

About the only convincing argument that I think is out there is one that the Republicans won't make because it is admitting too much political defeat.  I think they could argue in a few key races that it isn't a good thing to give the Democrats a filibuster proof majority in the Senate.  Personally that is what I'd like to see, but I could see many agreeing that is too much power in one party's hands.