Obama's campaign's treatment of McCain was, uh, completely unremarkable? Like they mostly ignored him and ran against Bush, pointed out that the economy was falling apart, and that the Iraq war was unpopular. And against Romney, it was basically "lol this guy is super rich and kind of out of touch."
Nick Fish
this is one of the weirdest things conservative elites tell themselves and it's become load bearing to their entire anti anti Trump ideology