If I was McCain, I would have done the same thing.
McCain, who already has the nick name McNasty, does not need to spend 1-4 days getting off message trying to defend petty comments by every talk show host in the nation.
How long is he going to be off message trying to defend his own hyper-sensitivity? If he had been private and gracious to Cunningham, this would be over. We are still talking about it because McCain was McCain, nasty to Republicans and a hyper-senstive coddler to liberals.
May I have the honor of presenting you with the Internet Grammar Award for numeric agreement of subject and predicate?
I want to scream every time I see or hear the cliche, “If I were . . .” :)