It wouldn't have mattered. John McCain made Bob Dole look like Ronald Reagan as a candidate. He could have made one of “Reverend” Wright's speeches about hating all cracker ass white people on national television and he still would have got elected.
John McCain made Bob Dole look like Ronald Reagan as a candidate. Nonsense. McCain's loss wasn't doctrinal--in fact, he had pulled even or ahead of Obama by last September. He lost becuase the bottom fell out of the economy, which the voters associated with Republicans. Combine that with his failure to show up at the debates, and you've got a recipe for a loss.