That and the people of his campaign, dumb is an understatement. They never were going to vote for him, it was BS spread by trash the likes of Carl Rove and Frank Barnes.
Karl Rove is another incredibly overrated person. What an idiot. He sold his party and America down the river by squandering the huge political capital President Bush was sitting on after 9-11. They had the entire country just begging for closed borders and they had a one-year window when they could have gotten that done. But they sold out.