To your point about Dole and McCain, don’t forget about Romney and even the first George Bush with his Read My Lips, I think they all intended to lose. I am certain that Romney intended to lose. I am highly convinced that they all wanted to lose. Why I have no idea. For Romney it was obvious that he was taking a dive in the third round. McCain I never trusted. He was sketchy from the moment he dumped his first wife and hooked up with his second wife, Anheuser Busch.
“don’t forget about Romney and even the first George Bush with his Read My Lips, I think they all intended to lose..”
Actually, they did slip my mind. In my defense, I wasn’t aiming for a comprehensive list of crap people who would have been better remembered if they’d had the sense to step aside when they were no longer the players they had once been. I think it’s common that men hang on past their prime. The reason tomcats and old men die is the same. Every day a tomcat jumps across the chasm of death. As time goes on his margin gets less and less until one day, he doesn’t quite make it and is the most surprised that he’s falling to his death. On their final day, old men wake up and say, “Today I’ll cut down that oak and chop it up.”