The old man didn't do too bad

Considering the millstones he was carrying.

McCain had insurmountable odds...

He had the terrible legacy of Bush, branded and labeled with his mistakes just because he was of the same party. But of anyone in the Republican party, McCain was the least likely to toe the party line, it is so ironic that he was branded, white washed with the same broad brush of those in his party that he often disagreed with. This is the downside of party politics.

No one would have taken office without introducing major change. But McCain was branded as sam ole sam ole Bush. McCain was not a dim witted drug abusing draft dodger, why would anyone think he'd act like one? His opponent slung that shit at him and it stuck. Partly due to McCain's big mistake of not distancing himself from the leader of his party who isn't anything like him.

One thing won't change, we'll have an old man tripping over his words and saying dumb things, only it will be the VP instead of the President.

It is said that bad things come in three's. The first for McCain was the terrible Bush legacy. The second was a total economic meltdown at a critical point in the campaign, unprecedented in American politics. And even though this meltdown was a product of both parties, the shit stuck on McCain and slid off Obama. But still McCain pushed on.

And last, but not least, just as McCain was making progress, in the eleventh hour, VP Cheny, in the ultimate campaign sabotage endorses McCain. WTF was he thinking? Is Cheny so vain as to think there would be some benefit in a war monger lending his tarnished name to the untarnished war hero? Was this some type of campaign euthanasia?

Or was this a twisted plot to sacrifice McCain for the benefit of the future of the Republican party. There are those who say things are so fucked up that no one can fix them and who ever tries, which ever party wins this dubious honor, is doomed to failure and loss in the next election. Was Cheny trying to protect the Republican party from its demise by throwing McCain under the bus and allowing Obama to walk into its path? As Denis Miller said of one of the losers of the Republican primary, "the man should drop to his knees and thank God he was passed over for this challenging situation".

And despite all this adversity, and the 2 to 1 loss in electoral votes, McCain only lost in the popular vote by 52 to 47.

Say what you will about McCain, but he is no Bush, he is a trooper, and he deserved better. Hopefully these positive traits will be recognized, respected, and sought out by the new administration. To ignore a man of such tenacity, simply because of his party affiliation, would be a disservice to the country that needs all the help it can get.