I agree, it’s almost like he wants to lose.
I don’t think he ‘wants’ to lose, but he’s not being well served by his advisors.
Maybe he does. I have known a lot of people in my life who work real hard to get something and then once they get it they don’t care anymore. McCain wanted the nomination in 2000 and lost. He tried again this year and won the nomination. To him that is victory. He beat all the conservatives in his party, he beat the establishment candidate if there was one and beat the Rush Limbaughs and Hannitys of the world who were arrayed against him. What more could he ask for. He doesn’t care anymore he has his revenge. He is old and tired and lost. He doesn’t understand why his “friends” in the media, his “friends” in the Senate and his independent base are all supporting his opponent. He has no message to run on other than earmarks and Iraq, he can’t run as a change agent because he has been in DC for 25 years, he comes across to ordinary people as grumpy, petty and insincere, he doesn’t understand the economy so he can’t speak to it and he can’t offer free market solutions because he doesn’t understand a market he has never been part of. Since the day he was born he has been a ward of the state, first through the defense dept., and since 1983 the legislative branch has paid his bills. He is government, and all his ideas center around the government doing something because that is all he knows.
He was never a true maverick he was a media ordained maverick and he was only a maverick when he was fighting against W and the Pubbies. He was the poster boy for the media’s bi-partisan message, a Republican working with Democrats against other Republicans to advance the liberal agenda. Juan never got it, he was used by people who didn’t like him. They played him and now we are stuck with him. I have said since May, check the archives, that this was going to be a landslide year for OBama and the Dems and regretfully I am holding to my prediction.