Lobbyists for the telecommunications industry and a variety of nasty foreign governments are the brains of the McCain campaign.
McCain's Lobbyist Problem: Fifth Person To Leave Campaign Over Lobbying Ties - Politics on The Huffington Post
McCain's Mr. Straight Talk Maverick routine is wearing thin.
McCain is a 'Maverick' in the original sense of the term. He's like an steer that leaves the herd and then eats loco weed, charges at hallucinations, and then crashes through the barbed wire into a dry wash where it flip-flops around injured until the cowboy shows up to shoot it between the eyes.
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"For if once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination." Thomas DeQuincey, 1700's