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I put it like this, they may have been heroic during their military service, but if it doesn’t continue into their political service, it doesn’t give them a free pass to continue doing the wrong thing. I look at John Glenn, for example. He wanted to portray himself as a “moderate”, but in his failed quest for the Presidency, he overextended himself so financially that he was “up for sale.” By the time he was concluding his final Senate term, he was running interference for Clinton in covering up the ChinaGate mess and sale of nuclear secrets (and whatever else) for campaign contributions to the Democrat party. He went from heroism to covering up for treason in the span of 4 decades, and he got his ride into space again for his treachery.

McCain does indeed need to retire next year, but has arrogantly declared again to run. He does not have my support in the least. Even his predecessor Goldwater jumped the shark in running for his last term, barely concealing his hatred for Reagan, and reduced to lying to pro-lifers to support him in 1980, despite the fact his Dem opponent was more socially Conservative than he, and then Goldwater giving the middle finger to the people that narrowly pushed him over after he got his last term...

It really is no joke that going to DC often warps even the best people, and the longer they stay, the more warped and part of the problem they become. Glenn stayed 24 years, McCain will have been there 28 years as of Jan 2011, and Goldwater stayed 30 years (with a 4-year gap after his ‘64 Presidential run). All far too long. I’ve observed once they’ve been there longer than 6 years (and I’m talking about our people, not the Dems, who are already mostly corrupted before they even get there), they’ve already been compromised. Very few manage to stay clean and keep their vision to shrink the size of government.