John McCain: Poseur

I have reached my limit with all this McCain swooning. He is conservative Republican who has not become a complete lunatic. For this we give him a medal? Bull Moose hails his courage in resisting the efforts to destroy the filibuster. That's wonderful. I'm glad McCain is one conservative who hasn't entirely lost touch with conservatism. But where was all this political courage when George Bush was smearing McCain's friend John Kerry? Why did McCain run around the country telling everyone that Bush was the only man for the job when McCain knew better? Was it just so he could run for President in 2008? How courageous is that?

I will give McCain his due for his actions in Vietnam. But I have seen precious little of that vaunted heroism lately.

So enough with the McCain hagiography. He isn't evil. That doesn't make him a saint.