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His downfall is that he was not true to himself. He's not a country cowboy and he's running on George Bush's country boy game plan and pitching to George Bush's constituency. He gambled on going with what worked last time and lost. Just like the web... just because you made money doing something 2 years ago, doesn't mean that you're going to be able to do that same thing now and succeed.
A lot has changed during GWBs second term. McCain ignored that and decided to go against his own grain and pretend to be a typical religious, extremely pro war (that he is), anti-science, anti-evolution, tax cuts for the wealthy, good ole boy candidate when that is just not who he is.
Then, in an attempt to pander to GWBs base(not McCains true base) and to make up for his insecurity about not being hardcore GWB republican enough to win, he goes out and gambles on a cowgirl VP. The gimmic worked for a minute but again was just not true to McCain. True to McCain was Leiberman.
Love it or loath it, Obama is what you see is what you get. Obama's out preaching Obama to the Obama choir while McCain is out trying to preach GWB to the GWB-ites. Now, everything he says and all his ads and his VP pick and his campaign all sounds like bullshit... because it is. Instead of gambling on being true to himself and running as himself along with selecting Leiberman, he gambled on selecting a GWB-ish VP nominee to shore up the base (ie trick the people) and pretend to be GWB's people's man of the hour.
Maybe it was his only chance and maybe he might have fared worse had he been true to himself but that's the choice he made, it was the wrong one and the consequences are at hand.
He should have put dignity first.
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