I reached my limit with him in 2005 when he first jumped on the “torture” bandwagon and spent weeks peacock-preening in interviews and magazine covers.
I doubt the MSM really believed they could be so lucky as to get this clown the republican nomination so they could then take him down—but they spent the better part of a decade building him up and it worked like a charm.
A bloated ego and no underlying principles. You do not want to bet on a man whom you have no idea what position he might take on any given issue.
The 2004 elections did it for me.
McStain, a.k.a. Captain Queeg, spent the whole campaign pissing and moaning about electoral spending by special interests, AS THOUGH IT WAS ALL SOMEONE ELSE'S FREAKIN' FAULT!!!!!
In fact it was the direct, predictable (and widely predicted) result of HIS OWN IDIOTIC LEGISLATION.
I mean, DUH!, Senator McStupid: If you deny "soft" money to the political parties -- for all their faults, the most accountable and broadly representative agents in the process -- then that same money (and even more money, due to the reduction in accountability) will instead be controlled by less accountable and less broadly representative agents, i.e. SPECIAL INTERESTS.
He did that. And then he complains about it. How stupid can you be? Dozens of commentators tried to explain to McStupid that this was exactly what would happen when McStain-Feigngold was under consideration. Even an idiot like me was able to grasp this at the time. But not McStupid. And what's more, he couldn't even connect the dots AFTER the fact!!!!!!!
WHAT AN IDIOT!
McCain's labeling Bush and the those in the CIA protecting the nation as torturers only added disgust to disdain for McStain.