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So, I figure that the Republicans nominated McCain because he had integrity and wasn't beholden to the wingnut, religious right base. He was not a fake. Not a bush.

They rejected the automaton Romney and the crazy man Rudy. They laughed along but didn't go along with the Arkansas guy.

McCain had a real hero aura. No stuff about his draft dodging. He was not a go along guy. He might just be electable after the Republican label was so besmirched by bush.

So he got nominated. An anti-bush.

And what happens, the minute he has the nomination, McCain morphs into a bush candidate. He sucks up to the right wing. He picks a pentecostal Veep who is more bush than not. Bush in a dress.

And he ruins his record for candor with a tight lipped set of lies and distortions that are all negative. Something he said he would never do.

A real turn-around from the primary guy who got nominated into the guy who is now running for the highest office.

What has happened to this man?

One conclusion is that he was never serious. Just a lucky guy who shot from the hip and won enough times to be seen as a 'maverick' and an independent thinker.

Another is that it took no time for him to get held hostage by the lobbyists and the Roves and he is too old and tired to stay out of their clutches.

Another is that he is an unprincipled hack with low energy. An old man who forgets stuff and is easily manipulated.

Whatever.

Not presidential timbre at all.

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