Well... Lookee Here: Alive! The John McCain Story - Time

Looks like they had this narative all ready to roll.



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John McCain took home a modest fourth place finish in the Iowa caucuses, garnering 12 percent of the Republican vote. But he may be as big a winner as Mike Huckabee. Huckabee's knockout of Mitt Romney in the caucuses was exactly what the McCain campaign, which spent little time or money in Iowa, needed from the state. McCain decided several months ago to stake his entire campaign on New Hampshire, where he is ahead of Romney (who governed next door in Massachusetts) in the most recent polls. Now that Romney has been severely wounded in Iowa, and with New Hampshire's Republicans historically cool towards Christian conservatives, McCain is suddenly poised to win big on Jan. 8 — and, perhaps, beyond.

That McCain is even in the race — let alone in a position to compete for the GOP nomination — hardly seemed possible just a few months ago, when his once front-running campaign nearly collapsed in debt and chaos. "The people who mishandled his campaign did him an enormous favor — they blew up a campaign that couldn't win," says an unaffiliated Republican consultant. "They destroyed his bases and mangled his supply lines. They left him only the option of falling back on himself and his instincts to fight a guerrilla-style campaign. And that's the only way he can win."

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Link: http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1700116,00.html

Wonder if this will be on the cover.

:shrug:

will "will" him to victory.