“The Palin rally where the the guy yelled kill him, preceded McCain’s rally. I’m sure the blowback from that had already been felt.”
I’m sorry, but a true leader does not allow himself to be manipulated and intimidated like that. A true leader would never adjust his answers and speeches to some perceived “blowback” from what some stupid person yelled out at a rally. People yell out stupid things at rallies all the time. If he can’t stand up to the pressure of that, then he sure can’t stand up to the kind of pressure Pres. Bush has had to endure for the last 8 years. Different people are good at holding up under certain kinds of pressures and not at others. Obviously, McCain was able to endure being a POW in Vietnam. That does not mean he has the character to stand up to political scrutiny and pressure from the left and he cares way too much what his detractors say and think of him.