Word: mccains
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Relaxed. There were some people who were sad, but there was kind of a party-like atmosphere. Phil Gramm says, 'You know what's interesting about McCain is that he has no malice.' He really doesn't. He will get mad at people in certain situations. But you know, he's served the people of this country for fifty years, he's not going to gainsay the results. He fought as hard as he could...
...kind of fell apart, when John Weaver left and Terry [Nelson] left. Emotions were raw. He was obviously not happy with the way things had gone. He went up to New Hampshire to keep it moving, to give a speech. It was the famous flight where he and Jimmy [McCain, his youngest son] and I were on Southwest Airlines, carrying our own bags. Some cable [channel] got it. Jimmy was three weeks out from shipping out overseas. We get through the speech, and you have pretty much the senior class of the Washington press corps all lined up. You know...
...really, really red states that everybody thought we might lose-except for Indiana, I guess-Montana, North Dakota, they all held. I think the [Republican] brand held up given the assault on it. This sort of Maureen Dowd nonsense, comic-book book theorizing about the Bushies who hijacked McCain--she can never write a serious column. It's just nonsense. It's just nonsense. Everybody, everybody felt a personal responsibility to protect McCain's reputation. The fact that we didn't do the back-of-the-bus stuff is only a function that you guys really wouldn...
...think anybody can. I think if we had gotten ten town halls out of Obama, it would have come close to that. McCain's ideal would have been flying around on an airplane with Barack Obama, debating in town halls and having dinner with him afterwards. That would have been his ideal for the general election, but we can't write the rules ourselves. This is the way they are. You guys enforce them. And Obama played by them masterfully, absolutely masterfully. A disciplined, focused campaign...
Absolutely. That's why I talk about the double-standard in coverage. In the beginning, McCain did not really come out swinging against Obama. Obama, from the North Carolina primary until yesterday, never gave a speech in this country in which it wasn't a full on assault on McCain's brand. We had spots making fun of McCain on computers, for owning seven houses, saying he had turned his back on Hispanics, saying that he opposed stem cell research, mischaracterizing his position on Social Security, on Medicare. Nobody got after him. There wasn't that collective gasp from...