Plans for him to lose. He nearly won the thing because of her. It totally caught them off guard. McCain wanted Obama to win. He never thought he would win. Sarah raised up a base and they had to take her out.
He never came close to winning.
Spot On.
The universal handlers never cared who won the American presidency, UNTIL Trump, who as it turned out, forced them to touch the lightening and lit their hair on Fire.
Why else the silliness of the Republican nominees and the R presidents, who then followed after the presidency of Reagan?
Many of us sensed a Party set up, a WOKE moment, when Dole got the nomination, but soon and literally Fell off the stage, to the Clinton universal institution.
McCain seemed to know from the beginning that he was the designated loser to the first black American prez.
It was probably of great help to the universal handlers (globalists, all) that McCain selected an unprepared Palin, with a new Downes baby, to use as red meat for the rubes, while the outcome was already known, and the cabal could play the Republicans with hope, blame conservatives like Palin, for the loss, while they installed Obama for the Collapsing of America.