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[drewkitty]

drewkitty

McCain threw the election for reasons which remain to be seen.

alohawolf

If he threw it, its not obvious to me that he did it.

drewkitty

1). Sarah Palin

2). "Rushing back to D.C." For the bailout, then voting for it.

3). Vicious negative campaigning; he knows better.

4). Failure to move to the center to woo moderate voters, and reassure them on abortion rights and other single-vote social issues.

5). Grossly inadequate efforts at saying "I'm no Bush!"

McCain is Presidential caliber. He knows these things. Therefore he took a fall or was made to take one.

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[aerowolf.livejournal.com]

It was like he was this unlikeable prick for most of the campaign, after he got the presumptive Republican nomination. It was only before that, and only in his concession speech, that he was actually someone whose manner of speaking was one I respected.

He didn't need to fall on the "America must be protected" bandwagon, but that's what the Republican planks required.

He didn't need to say that he voted over 90% of the time with Bush, and the Republicans didn't realize just how much anger there is against Bush.

I don't think he really wanted the job, after being briefed on what it really entailed.