I stopped right there.
I voted McCain in the CA primary, too.
I was for Thompson but years ago had done a lot of research on POWs. I was busy looking at Thompson at one of the debates, but I can honestly say that when I looked at John McCain, and remembered that man was tortured by some of the worst commie scum the N Vietnamese could import from USSR, China and Cuba who specialized in torture treatments, I burst out crying.
Yeah, I know McCain deviated after his divorce. Loan scandals etc. But still I watched the body language of the other GOP candidates that night and even Thompson (who knows him well) were deferring to him. And it takes a very strong man with cajones to pick such a confident gal as Palin appears to be.