Unless you mean the kind of bad luck one has in a rigged game.
Well we may disagree, but I don't see ANY of the other candidates as doing even so well as did McCain. They were ALL losers of a worse sort. Several of them would have immediately alienated some of the states we needed the most. Fred Thompson was the only one that had the right combination of stage presence and conservative credo that would have appealed to a wider audience. After him, John McCain was the only one that even had any sort of chance.
If it’s the application and meaning of the term bad luck we disagree about maybe a revisit to http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2374991/posts will help you see my point more clearly.
Posts 3 and 31 specifically.
In Fred Thompson’s case you might defend the tactics used against him as politics as usual and on the surface that’s a fair argument.
But Fred was running pretty strong and gaining a following as I recall and doing it on a low budget, too. I suggest he was connecting to Americans as an American. In modern presidential cycles, that is not only frowned upon, it is discouraged.
And bad luck follows. That’s what I’m talking about.