Two-thirds of the Republicans voted "no" to a bill he approved. How does McCain explain his leadership?
"To a certain extent, I think John [McCain]gets hurt by this," said Ed Rollins, a CNN contributor who worked on former Gov. Mike Huckabee's primary campaign earlier this cycle. "He obviously, at the end of the day, said he was for it. But more important than that, he said he was the one who would bring them to the table and to a certain extent he will be viewed now as not being able to do that."
Rollins added, "McCain is our nominee and [congressional Republicans] will do everything they can to help him, but they are not going to go over the cliff for him. They did that for Bush, and they thought that this measure was just too dramatic for their constituencies."
UPDATE: On MSNBC, Chris Matthews faulted McCain's leadership, arguing that McCain called "charge" while the Republicans "retreated." CNN's Ed Henry commented, that the McCain campaign is going to try to "run away" from the fact that this failed.
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