[romanesq]

“He could have won with Wright and should have won.”

Nope, you can look at the calendar when McCain lost. When Lehman Bros. went down, so did McCain.

He never recovered and in fact his going to Wasington dance routine and then merely signing on board with the $700 corporate giveaway merely stamped it.

He has a chance to push an alternative that was being propsosed/worked on in Congress. He choose not to and paid for it.

For some reason folks keep running away from the obvious.

[tioga]

McCain was true to form in supporting the dem giveaway rather than a conservative approach. He never morphed into a conservative, we supported him because of Palin.

[GreatOne]

When Lehman Bros. went down, so did McCain. He never recovered and in fact his going to Wasington dance routine and then merely signing on board with the $700 corporate giveaway merely stamped it. He has a chance to push an alternative that was being propsosed/worked on in Congress. He choose not to and paid for it. For some reason folks keep running away from the obvious.

Agreed. I have had discussions with several Republicans who fail to undertand that voting for the bailout put the final nail in the coffin. If he had come to Washington and actually led the opposition to a bailout, then he could have survived. But the problem is that McCain is not an economic conservative; merely a (much) lighter version of where Obama wants to go. Voting against would have going against his own economic philosophy.

[hinckley buzzard]

He never recovered and in fact his going to Wasington dance routine and then merely signing on board with the $700 corporate giveaway merely stamped it. He had a chance to push an alternative that was being propsosed/worked on in Congress. He choose not to and paid for it.

Yes. I agree, that was a crucial pivot point. He drew attention to himself as if he was going to go to Washington and make a difference. Setting himself up that way he had to deliver the goods. Instead, he disappeared into the quagmire for a day or two. Harry Reid told the country that he was a nuisance and should just get out of the way. So he did.

When he surfaced at the debate he needed to announce a decisive response, a plan to get behind instead of the universally unpopular bailout. He muffed it badly, ended up looking like an indecisive go-along-get-along senator instead of a president.

[igoramus08]

Nope, you can look at the calendar when McCain lost. When Lehman Bros. went down, so did McCain.

He never recovered and in fact his going to Wasington dance routine and then merely signing on board with the $700 corporate giveaway merely stamped it.

He has a chance to push an alternative that was being propsosed/worked on in Congress. He choose not to and paid for it.

For some reason folks keep running away from the obvious.

While it is true that McCain showed no leadership in the Economic Crisis and failed to name names, he still could have won by making Obama unelectable using Wright/Black Liberation Theology. There were multiple options for McCain to win and that is why this campaign was incompetent.