... John McCain learned something from that experience, or thought he did. Unfortunately, the lesson he seems to have taken away from it was this: If you want to be president, you need to forget about integrity and sell your soul.
This year, he has appealed to the ignorant, the repellent, the incompetent and the racist. He picked a vice presidential candidate who virtually every thinking conservative from George Will to David Brooks now says has no business being on any national ticket.
He has engaged in character assassination, put forward a dishonest and badly distorted economic plan that has no relation to reality, and lies cheerfully about his opponent and the issues. He has failed to repudiate creatures like Liz Trotta, a right-wing journalist who appeared to call for the Democratic candidate's assassination on Fox "news" in May, and then laughed about it ...
Yet the delicious irony of it all is that it isn't working. McCain has lost every shred of who he once was and what he stood for, and as a result, the American people increasingly dislike him. Polls after the presidential debates showed that the public now sees him not as a witty and ironic gutsy maverick. They no longer like him. He comes across today as Grumpy McNasty, a crabby old man whose main pleasure in life is telling little kids to get off his lawn ...
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