There is one simple fact. If Folded Bones McCain was to simply say look, we are throwing all we have at those pissant terroristes and we will not repeat we will not come home until the job is done GET”R DUN, and that may take a thousand years or ten million, so suck it peacenicks!
He would thereby win the election.
But he will win it anyway, and that is what must be faced. American will not vote for a Socialist no matter what color. Red, whatever.