“Then why do McCain and his fellow RINOs like Lindsey Grahamnesty have to keep trying?”
It’s our job to fix such things in the primaries, to keep the Republican party true to its conservative platform and our conservative ideal.
We f’d up in 2008, but I believe that it was in some ways ‘cleansing’ - we always got heat from RINOs that the cure for the GOP was to run
‘winnable’ moderates....
In the 2008 Presidential primary, they ‘won’ the argument.
We can now use 2008 and John McCain as a poster child for why that is wrong and false.
We don't have the advantage of a lamestream media promoting the DNC pick 24/7. We do, however, have the advantage of tapping into the sour mood of the country when "hope and change" and other empty slogans fail to deliver. We only need a candidate who can communicate that vision rather than McCaniac claptrap about reaching across the aisle.
Barry Goldwater lost big in 1964, but he left the country with a vision and contrast which was able to begin climbing out of the hole with the election of Ronald Reagan as Governor of California just two short years later. McCain lost a lot smaller in 2008 (thanks largely, IMHO, to Sarah on the ticket) and all he's seemed to learn is that he needs to do more of the same DemocRAT lite policies which made him so popular with the enemedia who sold his opponent to a gullible public who was tired of more of the same.