Your hypothesis about McCain/Romney is so reasonable. Yuck, what have they done to us?
It isn't so much what they have done to us...it's there's not enough of us fighting back Salvation....and the churches have far to much liberalism within them. So the "truth" is rarely visible or heard.
We are at the very least in the beginning of the last days....He said this would come...and that from and by our very own....