[OldDeckHand]

No one should forget that Todd S. Purdum is married to Dee Dee Meyers. So, everything he writes is crap to me.

Second, McCain's advisers also hold the distinction of running one of the worst presidential campaigns in the last 50 years, and certainly since Dukakis. They were beyond inept, incapable and horrible. None of them will work on a national campaign in a paid capacity again.(except perhaps for Democrats).

They know that they're toast. As they say, it's a poor craftsman that blames their tools. And to political operatives and hired guns like these buffoons, the candidate is their tool. Their mismanagement and under utilization of Palin, as well as McCain bailout break will be the stuff of political science books in the years to come - it will be the stuff of things to avoid repeating.

[dirtbiker]

Second, McCain's advisers also hold the distinction of running one of the worst presidential campaigns in the last 50 years, and certainly since Dukakis.

I agree totally!

I thought I was watching 1996 all over again, different cast but the same result....

[Little Ray]

Oh, c’mon. Surely Sen. Dole ran a worse campaign than McCain. I can hardly remember him running at all...