I feel sorry that McCain wasn't the Republican candidate in 2000. I wouldn't have voted for him, but I know with absolute certainty he would have done a better job than George W. Bush.

I don't feel sorry for the 2008 version of McCain. He allowed himself to be repackaged into something almost as bad as Bush.

The 2000 McCain bucked the standard Republican Party line. The 2008 McCain toed that line while only talking about how he'd bucked it in the past.


(Incidentally, if McCain had won in 2000, it's probable that Jeb Bush, not George W., would have been the next Bush to run for President. While I wouldn't vote for him either, he's ten times the man his weasel of a brother ever thought about being. If there's any Republican for whom I feel a bit sorry, it's Jeb. His brother has pretty much assured that nobody named Bush will ever stand a chance of becoming President again.)