I wouldn't be surprised if his token candidacy was yet another of Soros' machinations.
Actually, I believe it was. And I believe that Soros threatened McCain (and GW Bush, and Dick Cheney, and Chief Justice Roberts, and Judge David Carter.... etc...), similar to the way he threatened Bill and Hillary Clinton. Except he killed Bill Gwatney to threaten the Clintons because he knew that love of self controls the Clintons, and he threatened to kill the USA to threaten McCain and the others because he knew they have some love of country.
According to Bettina Viviano and Linda Thompson (?), top dems told them that Soros met with both Hillary and Obama during the 2008 primary to see if they would support him in his plans to destroy the US economy. Hillary wouldn’t but Obama would, and thus began the need to get Obama elected rather than Hillary. I believe Soros leads a communist-Islamist alliance to destroy America. Hillary is fine with the communist part but too much of a feminist to do the Islamist thing. Soros needed the Islamists though, in order to have enough money to bribe all the people who needed to be bribed in the election, as well as to pull off the destruction of the US economy - the run on the bank with monetary amounts that were enough to shake the whole world’s economy.
I think McCain did want to win; that’s why he chose Palin in the first place. But something happened to him after a while. Specifically about a week after the run on the bank. McCain had taken the lead in the race because of his choice of Palin. That’s when Soros’ communist-Islamist cabal made the run on the bank.
They were sure that Congress would immediately agree to TARP (a way to pay back the allies who had helped make the run), but after about a week had passed and R’s were balking and President Bush was staying out of the issue, in a single day all of a sudden McCain announced he was suspending his campaign and wanted to cancel the debates.... AND President Bush suddenly announced that he would give a speech to the nation, in which he said the world as we know it would end if we didn’t pass TARP (a drop in the bucket that would have nothing but symbolic effect - as payback to Soros’ operatives).
I believe that was the day that the Soros people told both McCain and Bush that their communist-Islamist alliance had made the run on the bank and could do it again at any time, unless they - McCain and Bush - did whatever they were told to do.
Right around that time, Paulson and Bernanke started having seminars on Islamic finance. Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez started saying, “Since capitalism has failed, the world should try communism...”. Zawahiri and Ahmadinejad started saying, “Since capitalism has failed the world should try Islamic finance...” The IMF was meeting in Europe to decide what needed to happen next, now that capitalism had failed. GW Bush was saying Armageddon was upon us and the whole western world would fall if we didn’t pass TARP...
A lot of people were obviously running VERY scared. People who do love the country.
About a month later Soros made some kind of threat to Fox News and other media companies. The media heads told their on-air personalities that the threat was FCC and/or FTC annihilation after the election if anybody reported on Obama’s eligibility problem, but that doesn’t make sense because the media heads had only to report the threats to the Bush DOJ and Obama could have been kept from winning the election. The threat had to have been something bigger - something that could happen regardless of any reporting to law enforcement or any elections. I believe the threat was another run on the bank that would destroy the world economy forever.
And Soros has been calling the shots ever since. To SCOTUS, to the media including “conservatives”, to Bill and Hillary Clinton, to Joe Biden, to President Bush, to John Boehner, to the eligibility judges.... and on and on.
There’s a lot of stupidity, cowardice, and selfishness with a lot of these people. Politics is really a sick game; I hate politics. But I also believe there is much more going on below the surface than most of us even want to know about, and those truths are slowly bubbling to the surface where we can see them if we have our eyes open.