McCain deserves to lose.

Every decision his campaign has made after the primaries have gotten him exactly where he is: poised to lose the presidential campaign in a possible landslide.

McCain decided not to use Obama's long association with the racist Rev. Wright and opted instead to use his less clear association with William Ayer's which backfired in the hands of the hamfisted Sarah Palin.

After the Democratic primary was finally over and Obama declared the winner, McCain wasted valuable time to begin attacks on a weakened Obama.

McCain pledged with Obama to take public money and stupidly stuck to the pledge even after Obama broke it and then raised record amounts of money in a presidential election.

McCain blew the biggest decision he had to make during the summer in choosing Sarah Palin as a

running mate thereby undoing his own argument that Obama not experienced enough to be president. After delivering a riveting convention speech, Sarah Palin proved to be woefully green politician. Like a moose in the headlights.

McCain stupidly tried to run on traditional Democrat domestic issues like health care which Obama had stronger arguments for and abandoned running on foreign policy and Iraq. In interviews, he hardly talked about Iraq and when prompted would return to issues that were not his strong suit.

He tried to run on Obama's theme of change.

He disastrously ran as a "maverick" and gave Obama ammo to call him "erratic" after his disingenuous move to suspend his campaign and rush to Washington to solve the economic crisis earlier in October. He balked about it as being dirty politics in the last debate but the word stuck because there seemed to be truth to it.

The McCain campaign screwed up just about everything they did. McCain kept his "honor" intact but lost the office he has coveted since his bitter primary loss to George W. Bush in 2000.

There were some good Republican candidates in the primary that deserved a shot at what McCain wouldn't do: run a winning campaign.

It's too bad the dirt wasn't thrown on the grave of his candidacy last year.