Where's McCain?

There has been broad speculation over why John McCain chose Sarah Palin to be his running mate. The consensus holds that she was tapped in a “Hail Mary” effort to bolster a flagging campaign. Now, in the aftermath, “anonymous” GOP campaign staffers are leaking garbage about her over an asinine clothing issue. Talk about a double standard – would anything like this have been dredged up had the candidate been a man? Is this what the GOP has degenerated into – a basket-full of backbiting vipers? Take a good look guys, while you conduct your post-mortem, consider this: "You have met the enemy and he is you!"

And where is McCain? He picked her to run; she flew the mission and did a creditable job. Now, with the election lost, she’s limping home, taking hits and he’s nowhere to be found. As a former fighter pilot, he above all others knows this dictum: “You never leave your wingman.” That’s almost as old as aviation. Why isn’t he rolling in to defend her?

It would be the classy thing to do - the right thing to do. Could it be, perhaps, that the best man actually did win after all?