As I think about this, I find it less likely.
I know that McCain is a pansy, but a street-fighting politician would receive this gift and do the following:
1) October surprise -- Look everybody! Look at my opponent Obama! Do you want to vote for such a guy??
2) Enjoy the destruction of the Democrat candidate.
3) December surprise -- By the way everyone, do you know who really torpedoed Obama? It was Hillary! Yeah, she gave me the tape! Looked like the Democrats were going to capture the White House there. Looked like a black man was really going to be president. But Hillary killed that. Yeah, she gave me the tape, and made sure that the country got 4 more years of Republican rule, all because she didn't want the black guy to win!
4) Enjoy the destruction of the primary threat for 2012.
They didn't even have the Jeremiah Wright issue out front in time to knock him out by Super Tuesday. Because that's what would have happened.
The MSM are the King's horses and men...and they can't put Humpty Dumpty back together again.
The man toughed out more than five years as a P.O.W. in a North Vietnamese hellhole. He's a lot of things, but pansy sure as heck ain't one 'em.