re: #232 darthstar

Ways McCain could have won (all of these together *might* have helped him win):
1. Lieberman/Romney/Pawlenty/Crist as VP instead of Palin
2. Running on a campaign of bipartisanship and change.(i.e abandoning the GOP base, but doing it honestly)
3. Hillary as his opponent.
4. A strong stand against continuing the Iraqi occupation.

Instead, McCain sucked up to Bush, pretended everything was peachy (“The fundamentals of the economy are strong” ring a bell? This was said while hundreds of thousands of people were losing their jobs every month and foreclosures were on the rise)

oh, and 5. Not “suspending” his campaign when he was forced to admit the fundamentals of the economy weren’t strong in some lame effort to make it look like he actually DID put “Country First”…even Republicans I know were like, “What the fuck? Is he for real?”

1, 3, and 5 work. 2 could not have worked. Had McCain abandoned his base, he would have lost anyway. 4 would not have happened period, for the simple reason that John McCain believed in the mission is Iraq and was not going to propose anything other than victory. Just my 2 cents.