[piasa]

That's such a load of roadapples. McCain got savaged by the Dems who tried to pin it on the 'Bush machine' in order further coopt McCain. The tactic was a classic Chicago-Democrat one, and was used again by the DNC for Al Gore in election 2000 when the DNC had their foggy little telemarketing company make the early AM calls hinting to Democrat voters that they 'might have voted for Buchanan by mistake.'

[joesbucks]

I don't know whether it was Bush approved or sanctioned, but they didn't distance themselves of it. I believe it was one of the Christian groups who made some very unsubstantiated statements about McCain and his daughter and inferred that McCain was mentally unstable due to his POW status during Vietnam. Even what should have been a friend Limbaugh was very rough on him.