Frank Luntz, kicking off an RGA panel session looking back at '08, promised candor — and then delivered.



"I understand how Dr. Kevorkian feels at an AARP convention," Luntz proclaimed at the top of his presentation to a darkened and quiet ballroom of Republicans, drawing scattered laughs. The past two cycles, he said, have been the worst for the GOP since the Depression elections of 1930 and 1932.



And it gets worse from there.



Noting that Obama has an e-mail list of 10 million voters, Luntz said that coalition "makes him and his supporters the most powerful special interest group in all of America."



"He's got 10 million names and our candidate doesn’t know how to use this," Luntz continued, holding up his BlackBerry in the air. "There is a problem there."



He wasn't done.



Alluding to John McCain's well-chronicled struggles with prepared speeches, Luntz voiced more exasperation with the man who was until last week the GOP's standard-bearer.



"Stevie Wonder reads a teleprompter better than John McCain," Luntz cracked, drawing laughs.

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