Dogpile on McCain!

It wasn't supposed to be like this. John McCain was supposed to be the "good" republican, the one even Democrats liked, the one who could shoot straight through all the bullshit. And now he's a joke.

He's a joke and his campaign is broke ("broke" being a relative term here as in all things).

How did this happen? How did a respected war hero let himself get beat by a dirty tricks playing draft dodger? And then learn so little from the experience that he actually cozied up to him?

In ten years or so, someone's going to write a book that will tell the whole, sad story--or at least a lot more of it than we can know right now. Because I'm really curious. McCain can be a smart guy, but he just seems to sublimate that (along with one or two other things having to do with manhood).

Do you think he still sees himself as the maverick even though nobody-right or left-believes it anymore (except maybe for the odd bubble-living pundit)? Doesn't he realize that he's killed all his credibility, that he's pushing a boulder uphill every time he supports making the war in Iraq bigger?

This isn't the way it was supposed to be. But that's what you get.