For every son who is like his father, there is a father who wonders how his son could have shot up a shopping mall or slit the throats of a best friend's family during a midnight trespass.
McCain needs to mend more than fences. Would the Admiral have approved of his McCain-Feingold atrocity? His marital fiasco's?
I doubt it. Most servicemen I know have a certain level of dignity, honor and love of this country's ideals than McCain has shown me, thus far.
We have a difference of opinion, here. But, McCain is certainly not above reproach or criticism. That is not what he, and others, are supposed to have fought for.
Bottom line: the GOP is going to have to have a candidate that appeals to moderate Democrats and Independents across the country to win. Do you REALLY think that is someone like Mitt Romney?
Florida is a bellwether state and the 4th most populated in the U.S.--If Mitt couldn't win in a closed primary, how the heck do you think he could win against the Clinton slime machine?