“So what exactly was John McCain’s campaign message, anyway?”
He didn’t have one. It’s his aides fault.
But they want to be hired again in the future. So they want to be able to say “Palin’s fault,” not their own.
You got that right! They should be tarred, feathered, and run out of the Party. It's bad enough they tried to pull a Dole/Kemp in the face of a socialist takeover, but now they're trashing the freshest, brightest face to surface in a long time. They're despicable.