I am so tired of John McCain being a media darling. By making him the "most wonderful politician of all" the media is running a deadly risk of the continuation of Republican dismantling of the United States.
Don't misunderstand me, I like John McCain. I like Republicans that stick to their guns, and don't buy into the whole "toe the party line" crap. But in all reality, I don't share much ideology with McCain. If John McCain runs, and if he runs against a weak Dem, I think McCain will get a significant number of cross over voters.
Forget Rove, forget Cheney or Rice, John McCain is the most dangerous Republican for us Dems. Will McCain have a few policies we agree with him on? Absolutely, but there are too many issues that we disagree on that make McCain deadly.
Can we afford to let the Republicans run McCain? I don't think so! Imagine another 4 years of Republican influence! Even McCain is craven to rightist special interest groups. I think we Dems need to get over his congeniality and our love of rebels, and begin to break up a McCain bid for presidency before the 06 mid-terms!
*UPDATE* To clear up a little misunderstanding of my use of the word like. IT DOES NOT MEAN I SUPPORT JOHN MCCAIN! (actually, if I meant that, the entire premise of my post would sound a little silly) So please, use a little bit of that developed reading comprehension, and don't subsitute your idea of which usage of the word "like" i mean to use, for the definition i actually contexually intend (and might I ad, the only one that makes any qualified sense!)