The whole put-down of the Christian gun crowd will definitely come back to bite him. Unlike the Democrats, whose backbone has become the kook fringe, the Republican base is by and large moral and practical and hard-working. Add to that the Regan Democrats and the PUMAs behind Hillary, and BHO looks more and more like the joke that he is.
While I agree, should McCain appear as just an extension of the Bush Regime and ignore domestic policy over foreign, he will have lost well before November. Outside of FreeRepublic, Americans blame Bush for every wrong of American society - from the war in Iraq brought on by "faulty intelligence" to high energy prices for his and Cheney being oilmen to the housing market slump because lender regulations became more relaxed under a Bush inspired, Republican controlled Congress.
Many I speak to eagerly anticipate November when the current administration is over. We might not LIKE the attitude, but it is what it is.