McCain sounded conservative at Saddleback. Then he picked Palin. Everybody, including me, got delusions of grandeur that McCain realized he needed to move to the right. I saw him on Face the Nation right after the convention when he was ahead. He was right back to that left wing populism garbage, and I knew his polls would start sinking.
Then go vote for Obama.
"The core case against Obama is pretty simple: hes too liberal. A few months ago I asked one of McCains aides what aspect of Obamas liberalism they thought they could most effectively exploit. He looked at me as if I were a simpleton, and patiently explained that talking about conservatism and liberalism was so old-fashioned."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/29/opinion/29kristol.html
If McCain's people really believe this nonsense, he's doomed.