McCain doesn't suck up to everybody, really; his target market is the handful of people who are still delusional about the war, the religious fraction of wingnuts, and people who don't actually pay much attention to politics beyond soundbites.

How can you suck up to everybody and still be 'the maverick on the straight talk express'?

McCain is right. There is nothing wrong with sucking up to everybody, if by sucking up we mean saying whatever anybody wants to hear. After all, Americans have an unlimited appetite for false promises, slogans, lies, distortions...anything so long as there is a message that feels good at the moment. And eventually if reality or their actions don't match their message, so what? You can't hold our leaders accountable for anything anyway, except at election time. And at election time, we'll forget everything and vote for anyone who sucks up to us...
T.Rollie Fisher

But I thought John McCain was a maverick who marched to the beat of his own principled drum. Clearly, the MSM made him say it.

McCain was Arianna HuffandI'llPuff's ideal candidate in 2000, she endorsed him, and at the platform she gave him, in front of an audience of idealistic young dupes, she allowed him to endorse Bush. I remember watching this on tv, and the cries of dismayed shock from the audience. I wonder how many of them continued to allow themselves to be herded sheep-like after that? What does that say about them if they did? Of course, Huffington still openly trashes democrats, claiming to be interested in weeding out those on the corporate payroll.. but McCain was known to be a corporate tool all along. He helped Viacom evade being held liable when they violated FCC rules for owning more media outlets than the already gutted laws allowed.

 McCain assisted a friend's corporation steal the tribal lands of a Native American tribe so it could be strip miined... but that didn't seem to bother HuffPo, or her faux environmentalist blogger pals. They put him up on a pedastel for McCain/Feingold, the biggest joke of all. A truly ethical, activist left would have attacked that travesty for what it was, a sham. It was legislation that basically allowed the right wing to continue to get the maximum contributions while curtailing the unions, environmental, women's rights and other organizations ability to donate to the democratic party.

Yet the zombi-fied neo-left couldn't quite seem to figure out what was wrong with that picture. Or perhaps they didn't care, and their interest was in facilitating the republicans lock on power. Before you laugh, consider that this was the same tactic used in South and Central America by the far left there. To impose the pain of a right wing government in the hopes of revolution and a rising to power of a far left wing fascistic form of government.

She smeared Al Gore. Yet we now know that he was absolutely correct on every point. Not only on the environment, but his role on the commision that dealt with air safety after the Lockerbie incident. The Nader campaign, and Arianna's shadow government movement smeared Gore, ridiculed him. SNL brought him on and made a mockery of him. Now the left want to canonize him. Who can blame him for not taking them seriously.

Besides, who wants a candidate controlled by that kind of farcical group of fascists. Considering that they've exploited a grisley war that they helped bring on.. they truly have the same blood on their hands that Bush does.

Winning trumps honesty, integrity, and goodness anyday.

T.Rollie Fisher

McCain's "straight talk express" took a wrong turn onto the Highway to Hell. That's what happens when you let a man drive - he refuses to stop and ask for directions!