[paltz]

McCain going into the oval office makes him ripe for being slaughtered by the media and Democrats ala watergate style. Like Nixon, he’ll have very little support from the base, because he burned too many bridges in the party. Who will care to support him if a scandal hits a McCain Administration?

[Richard Kimball]

Sometimes I write essays just for the heck of it. I've been thinking about doing one on Nixon and Watergate. In one sense it wasn't about Nixon at all. Newspapers were in a desperate situation at the time and the business was shrinking dramatically. The culprit was television. Newspapers argued that TV was shallow and THEY did the real investigative reporting. Watergate was important because the newspapers desperately needed something to prove they were still relevant. What could make them more relevant than taking down a President?

Sorry for the digression, but I agree with your assessment. McCain is a useful idiot for the Dems right now, but as President, he's just another R and they'll do everything they can to destroy him. The Pubbies pee themselves if a congressman gets caught taking three ketchups when he only needs two anyway. What are they going to when it's McCain and they don't even like him?