it’s hard to imagine loathing someone more than i loathe dubya bush, but i’m almost there with john mccain. i’ve written before about what a pandering, lying, self-serving pathetic shell of a man he is—and that was in a letter written directly to the man. mccain’s mendacity is really no secret to anyone who does even a modicum of digging into “the real mccain.” but his actions and words of late are enough to make you wonder: just who are the idiots out there who would consider electing this man our president?

a few recent mccain highlights:

• his inability to recall the past 15 years of eastern european history


• his siamese-twin relationships with lobbyists—who have made some pretty coin while screwing americans—and the extent of those relationships dictating his policy positions on the russia/georgia conflict and the home mortgage crisis


• his complete and utter failure to run an “honorable” campaign


• his laughable claim to any moral character (and his charming wife’s ‘family values’)

sometimes it feels as if we’re down the rabbit hole when it comes to mccain. what is so obvious to anyone with a brain just doesn’t seem to register with nearly 40 percent of americans. that’s partly due to the abdication of responsible reporting by the traditional media. but it’s also apparently due to the fact that we really are a nation of idiots.

andrew sullivan, who apparently has grown very very tired of trying to defend any of his fellow conservatives, wrote a brilliant piece in the atlantic yesterday. here’s an excerpt, but please read the whole post. his logic is infallible. his points are devastating. and his apparent loathing of mccain very nearly matches mine.

In all the discussion of John McCain’s recently recovered memory of a religious epiphany in Vietnam, one thing has been missing. The torture that was deployed against McCain emerges in all the various accounts. It involved sleep deprivation, the withholding of medical treatment, stress positions, long-time standing, and beating. Sound familiar?

According to the Bush administration’s definition of torture, McCain was therefore not tortured.

Cheney denies that McCain was tortured; as does Bush. So do John Yoo and David Addington and George Tenet.

so, since mccain agrees with bush/cheney on torture, can we please stop talking about mccain’s time as a POW? according to the man himself, what he endured wasn’t really torture after all. what is torturous, however, is watching mccain’s sorry excuse for a campaign. hell, at least one of his fellow POWs thinks he’d make a horrible president.