Excellent point. But I hope it ends up more than that. I think JD was deliberately torpedoed with that Abramoff charge that suddenly appeard just before the election and miraculously disappeard shortly after the election. I fiercely detest injustice.
Believe me, I understand completely, and I have no doubt JD was set up. Like you, I'm one of those old timers whose loathing and disgust with McCain goes back much further than his more recent RINO antics, since say 2000.
When he teamed up with John Kerry in 1993 on the Senate Select Committee on POW's/MIA's and betrayed his fellow Vietnam servicemen by killing any chances of forcing the North Vietnamese to account for hundreds of our people, he revealed without question what a despicable, evil piece of work he truly is.
That said, I understand completely the political calculation whereby Palin believes it necessary to endorse McCain. I don't like it, but I do understand it. And, I wish all these drama queens who are whining and moaning on these threads would grow up... /g