"On February 28 in Virginia, the home state of Moral Majority founder Jerry Falwell and Christian Coalition founder Pat Robertson, McCain launched a vicious attack on these "self-appointed leaders" of the Christian right. He called them "agents of intolerance" and described the two men as the right-wing equivalent to Louis Farrakhan and Al Sharpton.""The next day McCain suffered major losses in Republican presidential contests in the states of Washington, Virginia and North Dakota. Exit polling showed that conservative Christians played a major role in McCain's defeat. Less than two weeks later he suspended his campaign."
Do you know why he talks that way, through clenched teeth? It's because he has the jawbone of an ass.
He hasn't learned either. He still thinks he can win by appealing to a coalition of Christian-bashing Democrats and socially liberal Republicans.
McCain has always appealed most strongly to progressive secular Republicans who wish socially conservative Republicans would emigrate en masse to another country.