McCain has done pretty well under the circumstances. He really is a great guy, I just don't like the way he is running his campaign and I don't think he has lived up to his claims that he is a maverick in spite of his non-partisan past.
He has been too ingratiated to the Republican base for my tastes. And, forgive me if I sound frank, the Republican base is a bunch of swine. The Democratic base may not be perfect, but the Republican base has become more and more extreme as the years have gone on. They regularly cross the border into intolerance, xenophobia, racism, sexism, and regularly engage in McCarthyesque tactics.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
