There were also many Dem crossovers in the primaries that helped McCain along.
And when he was nominated, he campaigned harder against Bush than he did against Obama. He countered Bush at every turn when he was in the Senate. He took credit for Bush's successful surge.
He was as much anti-Bush as Obama was, so blaming Bush for his loss, frankly, makes no sense.
btw, saying we need a "purging of the soul in the Republican ranks," followed by George W. Bush, is even worse than the way I worded it.
It was both a misleading and confusing statement, with no implication of bi-partisanship whatsoever. The implication was that George W. Bush damaged the soul of the Republican party. And he didn't.
That’s right. McCain was a travesty. And what was his greatest single travesty? Well, to each his own, I guess, but in my mind it was McCain-Feingold.
And what did Bush do? Signed it. And why? Because he thought the Supremes would gut it, which they did, almost a decade later. But what does that say about Bush? What would YOU have done if you had been president. I know what I would have done, or any decent conservative.
But Bush, for all his fine points — and he had many — was not deep down a conservative. He really wasn’t.
And it doesn’t matter that McCain spent the 2008 campaign campaigning against Bush. That only shows how stupid McCain was.
What matters is that Bush’s inherent RINOism set the stage for McCain.
And that’s what you can’t see.
And that’s what Beck can see.