Bush strategist: McCain knows he put country at risk by picking Palin

Sam Stein at Huff Post quoting Bush 2004 strategist Matthew Dowd:

"[McCain] knows, in his gut, that he put somebody unqualified on the ballot. He knows that in his gut, and when this race is over that is something he will have to live with... He put somebody unqualified on that ballot and he put the country at risk, he knows that."