[Colonel_Flagg]

"He was positioning himself with Palin at the expense of John McCain's campaign message," said one of the aides.

So what exactly was John McCain's campaign message, anyway?

[glock rocks]

Similar to Bob Dole’s, as far as I can tell.

[Vision]

So what exactly was John McCain's campaign message, anyway?

"My Friends."

[omega4179]

Change?
He agreed with Obummer on Amnesty,Wall St “greed” and global warming.

[Shermy]

“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.

[DemonDeac]

“So what exactly was John McCain’s campaign message, anyway?”

I don’t know. I don’t even know if John knows.

[Lancey Howard]

So what exactly was John McCain's campaign message, anyway?

"My frenj, I am not George Bush."

[RasterMaster]

“So what exactly was John McCain’s campaign message, anyway?”

The PATHWAY TO CONCESSION seems to be all he was running on. Payback for the GOP picking Bush in 2000 as his actions since have demonstrated.

[Canedawg]

So what exactly was John McCain's campaign message, anyway?

Country First. How quickly they forget. Perhaps you missed the part about keeping our national defense guard up, drilling for natural resources instead of being over the Arab Oil barrel, and cutting spending, which made planned tax cuts feasible.

[wardaddy]

Be senatorial and tell everyone how qualified you are over and over and refuse to get down and dirty with a socialist who knows no such boundries and hence lose.

did I miss anything?

[NonLinear]

So what exactly was John McCain's campaign message, anyway?

1. My friends, I don't expect to win, so I want to make sure I don't hurt any feelings of my friends across the aisle.

2. My friends, I don't want to win by exposing my democrat friends as the source of the financial bust.

3. My friends, I don't want to win by exposing my democrat opponent as the racist that he has shown himself to be.

4. My friends, I don't want to win by exposing my democrat opponent as the socialist that he has shown himself to be.

5. My friends, I don't want to win by exposing my democrat opponent as the anti-Semite that he has shown himself to be.

6. My friends, I don't want to win by exposing my democrat opponent as the anti-Amerikan yippie that he has shown himself to be.

7. My friends, I don't want to win by having a coherent conservative platform.

8. My friends, I don't want to win by having a coherent conservative plan for America.

9. My friends, I don't want to win by letting my VP choice convey the conservative messages that I am keeping under the basket.

10. My friends, I don't want to win. I want to go back to being the maverick of the Senate, sothe media will like me again.

[Arthur McGowan]

Citizen: “I’m mad! With those clowns Reid and Pelosi up there—we ought to have our head examined!!!”

Sad Grampa: “I hear your anger. That’s why I’m going to go back and reach across the aisle to Reid and Pelosi, as you have just asked me to do!”