Originally Posted by aceventura3

McCain should not have been the nominee of the party. In the primary Romney got the fiscally conservative vote and Huckabee got the religious vote - these two categories form the Republican base. McCain got everything else, including some Democrats who voted in the Republican primary. McCain is as close to being a Democrat as a Republican can get, given the choice between a real Democrat and a "Democrat light", moderates and independents picked the real Democrat. McCain also ran a character campaign, which was a mistake. I prefer to vote "for" someone or something, not against someone or something. McCain never made his case for why I should vote "for" him, he mostly made the case of why I should vote against Obama.