“While I appreciate his military service and time as a POW...”
I've always believed McCain's time as a POW is exactly what someone has on him. The skeletons in his closet are skeletons of American prisoners who never came home. There has to be a good reason that he fought so hard not to go back and look for left-behinds. His treatment of Sen. Bob Smith over the POW issue was disgusting. I have no respect for him whatsoever.
Well, I didn't want to make it sound like I had any respect for him either. But he did serve in the Navy, albeit poorly, and I wasn't privy to his life as a POW, so you apparently know more about it than I do. But I think that is the only arrow he has left in his quiver as far as his reputation goes. His actions as a senator being called a "maverick" and "bipartisan" are lousy. He's an opportunist, plain and simple. When I lived in Arizona and he was my senator, I did not vote for him in the last three election cycles before I moved to Florida.
