[MahatmaGandu]

McCain’s treasonous staffers ran the Palin-Couric interview. Frankly, those sunzabitches probably set it up in collusion with Couric to sabotage their own campaign.

[Happy Rain]

You know,some would think such conspiracies belong in the tinfoil hat brigade but empirical evidence,especially over the years since Reagan,indicates that government employees or government employee wannabees in general have less and less loyalty to American interests than they do to personal job security.
Big government,whether they work for Republicans or Democrats,is their agenda—and thus they tend to favor those who worship BG—i.e,the Democrats.
McCain had a lot of inside the beltway hacks who cared that only Big Government win either with McCain or Obama but not with a true conservative—the enemy of BG—Sarah.

The friend of my government or future government salary is my friend,in other words.
It's pure logic why it is hard for conservatives to win at government as they detest it's unbridled growth.

Kind of like running for Union Boss on a platform of trimming waste and reducing inefficiency in the workforce. Knowing the workers are the voters.