Sorry, Elliot, I'm going to have to go with August on this:

There is going to be a lot of talk about why McCain lost, and I think that's really stupid, because just like the media spending ten hours going over a five-minute revelation, they are likewise going to spend weeks debating an answer that anyone with half a brain cell could tell you- because he pissed away everything he pretended he stood for to have a mentally imbalanced and intellectually defunct pseudo-Christian fundamentalist with a passion for petty grudges and murdering large mammals as his running mate as part of an escalating campaign of fear and racism.

I guarantee you, there will be a painfully large amount of opinions now that this is over using the phrase "I feel sorry for McCain." I don't. He deserves this and he knows it. The last few months of his campaign were evil, and tonight, by an overwhelming margin, we defeated it. We bashed evil in its skull and left it for dead. The only thing evil can do now is blog about it.

He had a chance to run as the John McCain of 2000, the one who refused (however briefly) to kiss Jerry Falwell's ring, the one the writers of Aberrant based Bob Schroer on. He began frittering that chance away in 2004 when he supported the Outgoing Occupant's (re)election campaign, and finalized it when he picked Caribou Barbie as his running mate to keep the Real True Christians™ in his corner. To paraphrase a Vulcan T-shirt I swear I once saw one of the Illogics wearing*, mate vigorously with that noise.

* Google was no help, though I did learn from it that UF now has its own page on the Ruiner of Lives.