You mean the great campaign where he muzzled the biggest boost he got (Palin), and then “suspended” his campaign to go to Washington to pass a stimulus/bailout? You know, so that everyone would “once again see that McCain puts country first.” The campaign with that stupid stunt that everyone who was not on the “Straight Talk Express” saw for the desperate stunt it was, from which he ultimately never recovered? That campaign?
Yeah, that was pretty bad.
ROFL! Exactly that campaign.
Now that you summarize, it may have been worse than Dole.
At that point, his campaign ended. That cost him the election.
McC's nowhere campaign looked more and more like loser Dole's muddled bid. He was his own worst enemy. McC's problem was that he was not prepared to run on anything other than "war hero."
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The economy sprung a leak while McC went out to sea----and his campaign strategy sunk. That stupid move of McC "suspending his 2008 campaign," as the bailout bill surfaced. Expectations were that he would have a plan at the presidential debate a few days later--something to convince voters he was up on the problem. He succeeded only in tying himself to the sinking economy.
McC embraced conservative-haters like loser Giuliani and amnesty-whore Juan Hernandez (Mc's hand-picjed Hispanic Outreach man). That made McC lose needed traction with the stalwart conservative base----the party's most energetic activists.
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McC disasters unlimited.
I kept waiting for candidate McC to trip and fall during his disastrous "town hall" debate------ballyhooed as showing McC "at his best." Watching McC mincing around the forum----he looked like an over-the-hill Home Depot guy working to supplement his SocSec. I kept wondering when he was going to start stirring the paint. His poll numbers dived the day after the debate.
McC screwed up bigtime---hooking up with RINO creeps like Giuliani. And (gag) Lieberman (who sucked up to McC then wrote a $100,000 check to the Dems to protect his creds).
McC sucked up to amnesty-whore Hernandez (as Americans woke up to 5 million toxic mortgages fraudulently doled out to illegals that poisoned our economy forever).
The parasitic pukeneos leashed-up McC like a pet dog. War hero McC was supposed to lay out the pukes case for Endless Global War using US treasure and rivers of US soldiers' blood. The very same pukes duped Bush with fake documents, and lead the US over the cliff into the costly, bloody Iraq abyss. The pukes also goaded McC to pump for amnesty. With friends like these...........