McCain Shoots Foot?

Looks to me like McCain has decided to take himself out of the 08 race early. Two months after the biggest political upset in decades, where a solid majority (which some might call a mandate) made their opinions on Iraq known, McCain is calling for a substantial and sustained surge in troops in Iraq. Maybe he thinks the country turned against his party just because we thought the Bush administration had failed in Iraq, but I think there's real reason to believe that a good portion of the group that helped to usher in the new age of democratic leadership at the midterms is also angry and disillusioned about the fact that the war is still going on, regardless of whether or not it's going well. Choosing now to come out in favor of a position more hawkish than Bush's appears to me to be political suicide.