"Say It Ain't So", John McCain, an excerpt from Salon's Joe Conason...

[flpoljunkie]

http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2004/07/08/mccain/print.html

"They know no depths," McCain would complain wearily to reporters on his "straight talk" bus. "They know no depths." Bush should hardly have been surprised when his battered opponent rebuffed his peacemaking gestures. "Don't give me that shit," barked McCain when Bush took his hands and suggested that their rivalry was becoming too personal. "And get your hands off me."

Now hands have been laid on again, and perhaps all has been forgiven. McCain is a figure of character and charm, but he cannot leave the Republican Party, as his idol Teddy Roosevelt once did, and strike out against the big-business lobbyists and theocratic demagogues who now dominate the GOP. He won't be making history or remaking politics. He will stand up dutifully, like Colin Powell, in the service of inferior men who would gladly ruin him -- and leave us to wonder why.

This year he has seen already what certain ruthless Republicans are willing to do to his friend John Kerry, and he must know that this campaign will descend still further before November. The day may yet come when he feels ashamed of his alliance with his old enemies. He won't be able to say that he didn't know how low they would stoop to win.

[OneBlueSky]

1. seems obvious to me . . .

McCain has been offered the VP slot on the Republican ticket . . . and he believes he can become president either when Bush is taken down or, if that doesn't happen, when Bush completes his second term . . .

[flpoljunkie]

2. Don't know, but it seems like a case of severely misguided loyalty to GOP

The question is, is there a point where McCain can no longer support those who have destroyed the party of Teddy Roosevelt, his idol.