A tough but nimble Republican campaign would have IMMEDIATELY lain the blame on Obama's door step. What McCain did, however, was to join the Democrats in blaming capitalism itself.
Opportunistic moron.
The media was not going to report on the housing mess truth.
Democrats raised millions more money starting in 2004; Republicans in the House and Senate stood by while the Iraq War became Bush’s war in the media. Bush allowed the press to descimate him AND his party. You say it was orchestrated from the beginning? Yup, but our side sure made it easy.
Yup.
McCain will always be McCain. He always has to be the prima donna, and the “maverick”
With only a few weeks to an election, and given a great opportunity to close the deal, he turns round instead, and blames capitalism itself, instead of laying the blame squarely where it belonged: on the doorstep of Obama and the Dims who forced banks to make mortgage loans to people who couldn't afford to pay back.
Well Obama doesn't have enough time on the job to be personally blamed. But not his party. McCain should have forcefully pointed out that the problems where caused by laws put in place during the Carter and Clinton administrations. Might not have worked, people have trouble tracing cause and effect back more than a few years. But it would have been better than voting for an even worse law that will bite us in the buttocks down the road. Maybe not all that far down the road either, as it put more power, lots more power, in most socialist administration and Congress at least since FDR, and arguably ever.