Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I whakarewahia te kaupapa perehitini 2008 a John McCain, te kaumatua o te US Senate mai i Arizona, me te panui kore i te Hui-tanguru 28, 2007, i te wa e tuhi ora ana i te "Late Show with David Letterman", a ka whakarewahia i tetahi huihuinga i te Paenga-whawha 25, 2007. Ko tana tuarua o nga kaitono mo te Perehitini o te United States, i rere ia i mua mo te whakaingoatanga o tana roopu i nga pooti tuatahi o te tau 2000 a i whakaarohia hei hoa rere pea mo te kaitono a tana roopu, ko te Kawana a George W. Bush o Texas. I muri i te wikitoria i te nuinga o nga kaitono i nga pooti tuatahi a te Republican o te 2008, i te Akuhata 29, i mua i te huihuinga, i tohua e McCain te Kawana a Sarah Palin o Alaska hei hoa whakahaere mo te Perehitini Tuarua. E rima rā i muri mai, i te
2008 Republican National Convention, i tohua a McCain hei kaitono perehitini o te Rōpū Reipa i te pooti perehitini 2008.