[Repeat Offender]

I agree the collapse had a lot to do with it. However, once McCain't was the frontrunner and the nominee, he ran a spit warm campaign altogether. He failed to go after 0's connections to terrorists. he failed to go after the eligibility issue. He failed to effectively demonstrate 0 was inexperienced enough for the job.

His bogus suspense of the campaign until the 'crisis was resolved' was absolutely f'n stupid and was a major catalyst that allowed the dems to package the collapse as the fault of republicans.

He shut down his running mate so he wouldn't have to worry about being shown up.....I called that not long after the VP announcement and well before Palin ever wrote her book.

A good deal of romney's staff went to work for McCain't and when things didn't look like it was going there way, they looked for a scapegoat and blamed everyone but the leftists that put the economic policies in place. The side bennie was romney didn't have to worry about running against Palin in 2016.

Instead of picking viable candidates, the GOP looks to see whose turn it is too be the nominee. Well, it's my turn to tell the GOP to FO.

[muawiyah]

That fake suspended campaign deal ~ most likely a mini stroke or two.

He could have stepped down and let Sarah run.

[jonrick46]

You nailed it in every way my FRiend. We also have to include Steve Schmidt who was too inept and unqualified to run a presidential campaign. I have great contempt for Steve Schmidt. I am sure the failures of McCain’s campaign came from Schmidt’s direction.