Senator McCain,
While over your career you have served our country well, you are now irrelevant. Americans of all political stripes have little or no enthusiasm for, and diminishing interest in, what you think about matters political.
You lost in a landslide to a candidate of questionable history and reputation. You ran a feeble, feckless campaign apart from the party that nominated you. Bad as that was, it would have been likely far worse had you not chosen Gov. Palin for your running mate.
Since (actually before) your electoral defeat, you stood by while high-level campaign staffers threw Gov. Palin under the bus. You have, on more than one occasion, said and done things that promoted the initiatives and proposals of the President at the expense of your country as well as your party.
It is Gov. Palin, not you, that speaks on behalf of Americans and the GOP on the issue of health care. That is a reality which you need to accept.
Senator, please spend the rest of your term in silent obscurity from the back-bench position to which your defeat has consigned you. And then, please step away from public life entirely, while you still have some favorable reputation left.
Excellent!