My answer, to Rossis answer, on John mcCain

Rossi,

I am a registered dem, as you know, so what I said about McCain being a REAL republican, and a 'good man', I did not do so over any overly attatched loyalties.

However, I admit fully our slight difference of perspective is a matter of nationalisim. You see, at one time, for whatever the politics, John McCain was once, in his youth, a Great American Hero.

Not even his detractors here can deny it. I understand why you do not consider it part of TODAYS reality, but it is because you are not, invested, in the symbolisim of American heros. Just as I hope the best man wins in Australia, I am not personally invested or in the way of the outcome.

I am a true daughter of America, and at one time John McCain was a hell of a man.

You know as well as I do that the difference between good and evil is mostly semantics. In the times that set someones charachter the semantics mean nothing and your actions speak for you.

John McCain suffered unimaginable things, and he was given a choice once to walk away from it and save himself, but he refused to leave our men, his men, behind. I can not forget the debt I owe him for that one example alone.

At one time, John McCain was a 'REAL republican' but I believe it changed the day george w bush and karl rove unleashed the dogs of slander and intimidation onto his family.

Do I believe he is complicit in the crimes of the bush administration?

You damn right I do. I have seen him lay down at the foot of a tyrant and it sickens me. But not him personaly, HE just makes me very very sad.

They attacked his FAMILY for politics and other REAL republicans were so blind with fear and nationalisim they abandoned him at that footrest. Other REAL republicans did not step forward to stop their own from madness.

Good men all around were shocked into a fearful silence.

When I think of McCain laying at the feet of that bastard, I do not get angry, even though it is understandable why you do, I just can not feel anything but disgust.

A great American hero was left behind by his own, it is no surprise to me he joined them when he could not beat them singlehandedly.

In that moment that true courage and fortitude was born in McCain, I can not forget it was born of a horrifying, soul splitting terror. It crippled him for life.

When I see him grovel now, I wonder about the fear he learned to cope. Is he guilty of helping that tyrant right along? Guilty as sin. But there was a time when these semantics were beyond him, and he did the right thing.

I take no joy in McCains fall from grace, Colin Powell too, I blame THEM for ruining GOOD MEN. Making them complicit. I do not even know if they are aware they ever switched semantics.

All I know anymore, is every time I look at my flag, I just want to cover my face with it and weep.

I do not know myself, how to over come the fear. I can not imagine what it felt like to John McCain when REAL republicans went silent, and left him all alone.