[PerConPat]

Does our party really suck this much?

Only time will tell. But McCain has to go, the sooner the better. The picture should begin to clear as McCain's support moves to other candidates. As this point, McCain is just in the way. He is a war hero; but he has never had the insight necessary to balance the levers of presidential politics.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

Insight, temperament, loyalty, foresight... McCain doesn't have much of anything. He's been a professional Bush antagonist for the last six years, that's pretty much it. Now that the media doesn't need him anymore, they're not giving him the time of day, and his star is burning out.

Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.