McCain at the Al Smith Dinner

This is the respectable McCain that I think most of us have forgotten exits.



McCain shows some tremendous grace here. I wonder how much of the unbecoming behavior we have seen over the last few weeks is more a sign of poor judgement in letting himself be over handled by advisors. It happens to many people who run for president and usually results in that person losing. It happened to Al Gore and it happened to John Kerry, although it looked very different coming from the DNC. I wonder what McCain's campaign would have looked like had he not surrounded himself (or at least let himself be surrounded) with some truly cynical people.