That being said, McCain used to be one of the few Repugs I grudgingly admired. I served 8 years in the military, and have a great deal of respect for his military service and sacrifice. He used to seem pretty independent and moderate, for a Republican, and has on occasion stood up and refused to tow the party line. While imperfect, you have to give him credit for his efforts at real champaign finance reform.

But honestly, in the last couple of years, I have lost all respect I once had for the man. He publicly denounced Bush's abandonment of the Geneva Conventions, but later basically caved. He used to resist the worst of the right wing crazies, but now openly courts them. It seems obvious that he is now willing to sell his soul, and any credibility he once had, in a last attempt to run for president.

It is way too early to tell, but everyone seems to tout him as the presumed Republican front-runner at this point. He could very well win the R primary.

I'm gonna cry if this weasel ends up being our next president. I would not have said that in 2000. (I would of course still have preferred Gore over McCain in 2000. But if we had to have a R, McCain would have been better than Shrub.)

Right now it seems unlikely to me that he could win a general election. His support of the idea of sending yet more troops to Iraq will cost him a ton of votes, with the war being so unpopular, and getting less popular by the day. But the primaries are a long way off, so who knows?

That picture of him almost sucking at the teat of Bush II is sick, sick, sick, especially when you consider the despicable lies that Bush II and Karl Rove spread about him during the 2000 primaries. The manly simply has no principals or honor.

Sorry, but McCain is as regressive and backward as a Kentucky Klansman --he just has better PR.

He's Lindsay Lohan in Mean Girls.