I commend war records and all that but after McCain let the Bush machine smear him like they did and still kiss his butt, and endorse him over Kerry, a fellow war hero, and man that had tried to work in a bi-partisan way with him in the Senate, I say the man is a coward and doesn't deserve to be President, no more respect from me for McCain!!!

McCain played a good hand with Rove/Dubya. He scared them just enough with "mild" criticism, and they promised him support in 2008 if he would get behind the re-election efforts of Rove/Dubya. He is not the "saviour of the moderate middle," he is just another Repug with his hand stuck out for a larger piece of the corrupt pie.

No way in hellsville will the reugs select a moderate such as McCain (or Powell.) The far right hate moderate repugs almost as much as they hate democrats. Having a moderate run against the far right will simply highlight the division within the repug party and show how out of touch they really are.

I agree that both McCain and Powell let us all down - especially themselves - by not walking away from Bush extremism sooner.