Richard A wrote:The thinking was that he was perceived as a liberal and that Palin would bring the conservatives in. As Heid says, not the best judgment call. But still all in all a good man.
I think that election was where it all started to go wrong for people who might have liked him before.
The Republican party has radicalised to a point where possibly Ronald Reagan, and definitely Richard Nixon, would be considered radical left-wing extremists today. In 2000, McCain ran for the presidency as a more moderate Republican, and lost to George W Bush. Come 2008, we have the new, much more right-wing, McCain. Obviously that's going to make some people like him better, and others like him less well.