You can critic, John McCain, he had many more faults then positives. He was loud of mouth. but weak, as he stood by and let Obama run over him like he was a squashed ant!!! Good riddance, John McCain!!!
In 2008 he was the designated loser, appointed to that position by the Deep State. When the selection of Palin (a miscalculation on the part of the Deep State) accidentally energized his campaign and made a win look possible, he had to sabotage the momentum by suspending his campaigning in order to “do important work in the Senate”. As if he single-handedly was going to save the USA by his one vote out of 100. And if I recall there were exactly ZERO votes that were even close. So either that was a lie or his political insight was nil. In addition he began to behave very erratically, doing as much damage to his campaign as possible.
Nope. He knew EXACTLY what he was doing. He had no intention of winning.