Surfing the intertubes I ran across an article from Andrew Sullivan that nails how I feel about the McCain Campaign and the behaviour of the "Original Maverick"
While he may have been an man of integrity at some point, that has long since passed away and been replaced by an overarching desire to be President, whatever the cost in human lives, personal integrity and respect.
Andrew Sullivan: McCain's Integrity
A few snippets from Mr. Sullivan that I find especially well written, the emphasis is mine;
For me, this surreal moment - like the entire surrealism of the past ten days - is not really about Sarah Palin or Barack Obama or pigs or fish or lipstick. It's about John McCain. The one thing I always thought I knew about him is that he is a decent and honest person. When he knows, as every sane person must, that Obama did not in any conceivable sense mean that Sarah Palin is a pig, what did he do? Did he come out and say so and end this charade? Or did he acquiesce in and thereby enable the mindless Rovianism that is now the core feature of his campaign?
The questions for me are, "Is the media going to come to its senses? More importantly, will Independents see this for what it is, a blatant distraction from what really matters?"
More from Mr. Sullivan;
And when the Senate and House voted overwhelmingly to condemn and end the torture regime of Bush and Cheney in 2006, McCain again had a clear choice between good and evil, and chose evil.
He capitulated and enshrined torture as the policy of the United States, by allowing the CIA to use techniques as bad as and worse than the torture inflicted on him in Vietnam. He gave the war criminals in the White House retroactive immunity against the prosecution they so richly deserve. The enormity of this moral betrayal, this betrayal of his country's honor, has yet to sink in. But for my part, it now makes much more sense. He is not the man I thought he was.
Is that the way a "maverick" rolls? I think not.
Sullivan continues,
McCain has demonstrated in the last two months that he does not have the character to be president of the United States. And that is why it is more important than ever to ensure that Barack Obama is the next president. The alternative is now unthinkable. And McCain - no one else - has proved it.
Take the time to read the entire article, it is well worth it.