you know how horrible of a candidate you have to be when for the past 200 years there has been white male presidents, and you lose to black a guy?
i'm not sold that people believed in barack obama as much as john mccain was a wrinkly stiff. barack won by default.
Not just McCain. He was the least of your problems. The whole party stinks.
It is filled to the brim with liars, holy-rollers, racist, trust fund babies and just a host people who think that it is their Divine destiny to rule.
the last 10 months were kinda tough on us. The best speech the geezer gave was his fucking concession speech.
The man won the nomination by winning a mere 30%+ of the Republican vote in two primary states. He never resonated with his base on a widespread basis.
Under the present circumstances, relatively no news from Iraq or on terrorism and the credit crunch tsunami, the media circle jerk for Obama and an enormous financial disadvantage, any Republican nominee would have had uphill fight.
Without the credit crunch crisis, he may have even won against all odds, we'll never know. I still think a more dynamic personality would have served us better.
Thank you for your service John, and thank you for your effort, but just go away, in a political leadership sense of course.
The better question is who will be. You guys have a real void. Mittens Romney? Ugh. Rudolf Ghouliani? Yikes. Sarah Palin? No Betcha.
GWB......doomed any pug candidate.....you could've had your own messiah dems were winning last nightNo way of proving it but I think had Romney been the Repub candidate he would have beat Obama by the same margins that Obama beat McCain.
These are serious economic times. The Federal money spending is out of control just as Joe Q P's spending is way beyond his means. Mix in the Wall St fiasco and it's ramifications for anyone with any wealth at all and this country was ripe and ready for a fiscal conservative they could believe in. John "I don't know anything about the economy" McCain was clearly not the guy for the times.
Romney was the most economically credentialed candidate to come down the pike in a long, long, time. Maybe the strongest ever in that regard.
I think those who harbor bias against Mormons would have overlooked his religous heritage in favor of his ability to captain this economically listing ship.