[JWBear]

Excuse me if this incoherent rambling doesn't make sense. I'm doped-up on cold medicine, and marshaling my thoughts right now is like herding cats.

The Republican party in general, and the religious right in particular, try to project an image of "holier-than-thou" moral superiority. So when a Republican politician has a little indiscretion, it appears to the rest of us as hypocrisy and laughably ironic. The Democratic party has never claimed to be superior when it comes to "family values" morality, so when a Democrat screws-up (sometimes literally) that hypocrisy and irony aren't there. They never claimed that moral superiority.

Everybody's human. Everybody fvcks up (I hate that filter thing). But, we also take a perverse pleasure in watching the mighty fall - especially if they fall in a way that highlights their hypocrisy.

McCain was very poor judgment. He picked a relative unknown for his VP without a thourough investigation in to her background. And now it's coming back to bite him on the ass.

Ooo.... Bacon!