You are letting your admiration get in the way of reason. Perhaps your admiration is a bit too inclusive.

I admire McCain the POW who was held captive and tortured. I admire the McCain who had the guts to say that under torture, one will admit to anything to make the torture stop.

I have nothing but contempt for the McCain who let the Bush apparatus smear his wife and his adopted child in the 2000 campaign. I have nothing but contempt for the man who shilled for Bush in 2004 despite the dirt that was dished out on his family in 2000. He is a family value man? Right!

I have nothing but contempt for the man who now espouses the filth and hatred spewed by the religious fanatics that constitute the religious right movement. He now espouses the very people who said that 9/11 was God's revenge for feminism, homosexual life style, etc...

I am a New Yorker who escaped with my life on 9/11/01. I'll never forget that gloriously beautiful morning when everything seemed to be right with the world, and when that feeling was shattered in a split second by religious fanatics -- see the parallel?

I lost too many colleagues, and I went to too many funerals, to ever forget -- never mind forgive -- the noxious statements that Falwell, Robertson, and their putrid ilk, made in the aftermath of 9/11.

And now MacCain makes excuses for that evil,repugnant,lot?

His pandering to the American version of the Taliban is worth a grass root campaign.

To get his hands on the campaign money already in his coffers, and use it to pay his legal bills...

Let's please innundate George Allen's office with e-mail, phone calls, and faxes.

Does he really want people to think thet the inmates are running the asylum?

May he be headed for the slammer...

You like McCain? This is a free country, so you are free to like anybody.

I do not like McCain. I never have. He is no maverick. He is only a maverick when the cameras are focused upon him. He was the object of one of the most putrid smear campaign that the GOP operatives ever mounted in 2000. He was, however, not alone in this situation. The smear campaign also targeted his wife, depicting her as addicted to pain-killers, and it targeted their adopted child, implying that said child was born out of wedlock from a -- Gasp! -- black woman.

McCain went on shilling for Bush in the 2004 campaign. That he chose to overlook the nastiness that was directed toward him by the Bush apparatus for political gains, I suppose I can understand. That he chose to shill for Bush after the Bush operatives smeared his wife and child, I do not. It clearly says something noxious about him: that his raw desire for power overrides his commitment to his family. In other words, he is willing to override the ignoble insults hurled at his family if it gets him where he wants. That is repugnant behavior.

In addition, in the past few weeks, McCain supported the South Dakota ban on abortion, the one that makes no exception for rape and incest.

Finally, he now cozies up with a demented religious figure who thinks nothing of blaming gays. feminists, etc.. for 9/11, and who said, early last month, that Jews would not go to heaven unless they converted to Christianity...

McCain has finally shown his true colors. He is evidently willing, not only to insult his own family and disregard it in the most egregious way by allying himself with the very people who smeared his family, he is also now whoring himself to religious fanatics.

Come 2008, women voters will have not forgiven nor forgotten that family betrayal, nor will have they forgiven or forgotten his support of the SD's ban on abortion that does not except rape and incest. Moderate voters who may have been inclined to vote for him -- as I was -- will not forget his alliance with repugnant gay-bashers, Jew-haters, and otherwise revolting religious Christians (albeit it is an insult to real Christians to call those fanatics Christians).

McCain does not stand a chance at the presidency. Grass-root movements will see to it that he never makes it to the White House.

Why are you giving Limbaugh any publicity? We all know that he is a noxious lower form of life, and that he makes a living at spewing hatred and vitriol.

So, why do you highlight his predictable and putrid nonsense?

Curious how the Bushies trolling this blog get all huffy, puffy, and self-righteous, about illegal immigration, but have no problems with their President breaking the law by spying on American citizens. It all depends on what the definition of "criminal" is, I suppose.

Anyway, the immigration debate is just a smoke screen thrown out by the Republicans to divert attention from their abysmal lack of competence, profligate spending, and corruption. The President's approval ratings are stuck in the mid 30s. Those of the GOP- controlled Congress' are stuck in the high 20s. GOP operatives are scurrying around trying to throw sand in the voters' eyes to cover up their dismal performance. What better way to do it than by whipping their "base" into a frenzy of racism, jingoism, and mean-spiritedness?

I am a lot more concerned by the real issues that threaten the well-being of this country than by a few million illegal immigrants. The real issues are the spiralling deficits, out-of-control spending, astronomically costly wars of choice, cronyism and crass incompetence in the White House and key aagencies, law-breaking by a delusional President and his henchmen, and religious lunatics trying to force their antideluvian beliefs down our collective throat.

I am far more concerned with the