I agree, the ONE thing he’s done in his campaign for which I can legitimately applaud him…if he had demonstrated this level of civility all along, I think he’d still have a chance to win. I personally wouldn’t vote for him, but I’m glad he did that…I’m thinking he realizes now he’s going to lose, and doesn’t want Obama to have to deal with 23% of the people wanting his head on a post.
Unfortunately, you reap what you sew, and it’s basically his trying to resurrect this weak “Obama has ties to terrorists” mantra that’s only going to sell to the base, which is already angry, which brought this whole thing on.
But we still see the true colors come out more often than the increasingly rare occasions when McCain takes the high road these days. Not to take anything away from what he did (in Lakeville, not Lakeview…I know because it’s just south of St. Paul where I live), but on Thursday, I heard the McCain camp actually say that it was Obama’s fault that these supporters were angry…I forget their “logic” on that one. But it’s not much more than a reprise of when John McCain said that it was Obama’s fault that he was running such a negative campaign, because he wouldn’t be doing that if Obama had agreed to the 10 town hall format debates McCain had suggested (and given how boring those 2 debates have been, can you IMAGINE 10 of those things?). And the blame game continues, minutes after it was concluded that Palin acted inappropriately in the Troopergate scandal, the McCain camp blamed Obama again, saying that the board of 7 Republicans and 5 Democrats, who were unanimous in their agreement to release the report, were biased towards Obama.
So, I applaud McCain for that one drop of sunshine in an ocean of bitter darkness…but it ain’t gonna save his campaign, and it’s not about to redeem his bad behavior…when you lay down with the Devil, you’re bound to get burned.