Bottom line, in a nutshell, here’s what I think.

McCain, I believe, may have actually been duped a bit into believing some of the BDS stuff.  If he did, then he was harboring false illusions about his liberal brothers, i.e., they were all nice and Bush was a true bully-bad-guy.  The alternative media was feeding McCain’s campaign more truth than he would have needed, in my opinion, to win.  But he may have been further fooled into believing that we were nothing but a right wing conspiracy and should not be heeded.

In other words, John McCain may still trust the mainstream media and believe they are bi-partisan and non-biased.  This says a great deal about the state of his mind.  And it’s not good.

McCain seems to have set the goal from the beginning of being the anti-Bush, the anti-Rove, the lovely face of the Republican Party, the true American statesman rather than the street-fighter one needs to be now even as a candidate.

Now that I’ve thought about it more, I think this may have been one of the reasons he chose Palin.  She was beautiful, sweet, motherly, nearly downright saintly…a perfect picture of a nice, nice Republican.  He may have been somewhat shocked to see her take on General Patton-mode at her rallies…and I think he came close to showing disgust for her on the stage at his concession speech.
I imagine that losing one’s last chance at the Office for which he did seem destined, is the bitterest of pills to swallow.  But blaming anyone but himself for this loss seems far beneath the man I thought John McCain was.

Admittedly, this is all a very female, intuitive and boiled-down version.  Take it for what it’s worth, perhaps nothing.

My humility is gaining more muscle by the moment due to my heavy ingestion of CROW.