[sickoflibs]

RE “plan of running from the center,:

He went ‘right’ in summer on drilling and started beating BoB. But in September he tried that reformer not republican work with democrat crap and it was a disaster. So in October he went purely negative and claimed that he was against the bailout bill in september, which everyone knew was crap. Now going negative was great, it was key to next year for us. But by october he had already flipped all over the place and had no believable positive message required to win that last 4 %. I do thank him for going negative, key to opposition in 2009. Thank you (seriously)

[Tarpon]

It did seem that every once in a while, a screw came loose and he reverted to the same old reach across the aisle crap that McCain tried to sell in the Senate. Even Sarah was forced to eat that crap sandwich.

But never forget it was the McCain strategy that was fatally flawed from the get go. Running as Democrat lite is a 100% loser proposition.