McCain gave a nice concession speach. While I didn't vote for him there really isn't any joy in seeing him lose.
he's a class act. it really was overtly gracious, in the true "country first" notion he wanted to live up to.
The post mortems will be interesting and I fully expect the center-left media to claim that he lost it with Palin. In reality, however, he probably lost it when he tried to be a 'statesman' during the bailout and it failed.
I got to disagree, G-Man. What cost McCain the election was that he couldn't run from the shadow of Bush. He lost it when he said the fundamentals of the economy are strong within hours of banks collapsing. He lost for many reasons. His campaign was terrible for most of the time.
But, more than anything, he lost it when most of the top conservative commentators rallied against him early on and then really only gave him support in such a way that scream 'the only reason we are doing this is because he isn't Barack Obama.' More than anything, I think that is what cost him his campaign.
