esquire.com — From reporter w/ best access to McCain: "John McCain, the politician, seemed to be on the verge of outflanking John McCain, the man.... But for me, he lost the election when he picked Palin, because he lost the last vestige of his former self."
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Closed AccountNov 6, 2008
Sites like that make me almost regret us giving some morons free speech. There's free speech... then that s**t.
flumkinNov 6, 2008
I really liked the old Mccain.This article is depressing. He traded everything that made him a good man for a failed political campaign.
welldoitliveNov 6, 2008
*President elect, Bush is still in office.
Closed AccountNov 7, 2008
P.S. Obama gave a press conference today, outlining his economic plans. And the Dow closed up 258 points -- despite evastating jobs report and news that GM is running out of cash. Sucks to be as wrong as you were, doesn't it?
roguegeniusNov 8, 2008
I agree. McCain could have had a chance if he had just given the bird to the republican base. But once he decided he needed those losers to get elected, he alienated everyone else. Kind of tragic, because he will never be president now. He'll be dead long before anyone forgets this betrayal. Quite sad, actually. I really liked him when he was running against Bush. But he decided he wanted to win more than he wanted to be a man. Now he'll be remember for this stupid failure, rather than being the maverick he could have been.
redgirlrisingNov 10, 2008
What do you know about Pat Robertson and James Dobson. I laugh at Democrats and liberals who think they have any room to provide advice to the Republicans and conservatives. Shut the hell up and go mind your own business.
fromeaglesnestNov 10, 2008
It is hard to believe how shallow and insulated most of you people are. You must be the product of brainwashing by the far left loonies who took over are academia. You may not be conscious of it, but you have been victimized by the ‘hate America’ crowd. Those people live in a world of their own. A world of relativism and without God or any values and where winning a political contest for the sake of power is everything. It is a world without truth or falsehood, a world without honor, character or faith. Why would anyone want to be part of it?
zerocubedNov 11, 2008
I agree with you that the Republican party is better off returning to mostly their old ways, but adapted to the 21st century. The neocon racist stuff is dying out quickly. 40 years ago you wouldn't elect a black man as president of the PTA. In just 40 years (that's nearly half a lifetime!) we've gone from that to electing our first African American president. They keep it up, it won't even be another 40 before their numbers are cut down by half or more. The main problem of course, is their curious and bewildering generally anti-intellectualism. They don't want to be 'elitist', but somehow intelligence and high education has been grouped under the stereotype of being elitist - along with vegetarianism, being calm and composed, using big words, being eco-conscious and health conscious, city dwelling ect. Surveys and a study during this election season showed that the majority of people who received college degrees were leaning or full democrat. It made me wonder if Republicans where AFRAID of receiving higher education and somehow being converted to the Democratic party. If that's the case for any Republican, then my advice is that they should revisit their ideals and policies and make sure they fully support them. If education alone transforms them from Republican to Democrat then I doubt their positions were strong in the first place.
cmootooNov 16, 2008
david also predicted McCain would win the election. He's accustomed to being wrong. A good rule of thumb would be to see what david predicts and expect the opposite.