Valentine sweethearts

If you liked W, you'll love St John!

Why have a little invasion and occupation when you can stay in Iraq for at least 100 years?

McCain likes posing as a moderate when he aims for the independent and crossover Dem voters, though he keeps touting his conservative credentials with the Republican base these days. While he has, in the past, championed a few good things (campaign finance reform, for example), he is not a moderate and he is increasingly scary. He should under no circumstances be allowed to distance himself from George W. Bush and Bush's policies in the upcoming presidential election.

Photo taken from Daily Kos.

As Smintheus puts it:

George W. Bush's failures are so dizzying in scale and scope that, ironically, plenty of Republicans still can't even make them out against the gloom-shrouded horizon. These are like the Republicans who wanted to re-elect Herbert Hoover in 1932, only much dumber.

At a time when Bush is often dismissed as a lame duck, the CPAC crowd, in open defiance of the 22nd Amendment, greeted him with a thunderous cheer of "Four more years."

Unable in their folly to admit that Bush has nearly destroyed the Republican Party, they're actually eager for more of the same. And if anybody can give them four more years of such folly, it is John McCain.

UPDATE:
Joe Sudbay at Americablog has some comments about McCain's temper too.

Back in 1964, the Republicans said of their candidate, Barry Goldwater, "In your heart, you know he's right." The Democrat's response was "In your guts, you know he's nuts."

The 2008 version of that statement for Republicans (a little more politically correct) is that in their hearts, they think McCain's wrong. And, in their guts and in their own experiences, Republicans know McCain is, let's say, volatile and unstable.

More and more folk, including the NY Times are paying attention to his volatility.
--the BB