To John McCain: Age MAtters!

He may live to be 110 without being senile. We hope he does, but what we needed on the Republican ticket was a fighter. McCain may have been a fighter when he was younger, but evidently, age has pulled his desire for standing on his hind legs like a dentist
finally pulls our teeth in our senior years.

I am talking about the "fire in the belly". Age has a way of mellowing out our instincts and softens our desire to stand up to that which is disagreeable. The fact that McCain is in advanced years does bear on his responses to issues. You see it in his solutions to problems. His milk-toast responses and caving in to liberal solutions clearly mark McCain as an old man who has lost the fire to fight for an idea.

He straddles the fence enough to call into question about whether or not he has a core-belief or not. He can be conservative in one instance, and then go 180 degrees in another. Where is his core? One side is OK, while the other side is afraid to take a stand for fear that some of the moderates or liberals may not vote for him. The fear of losing hangs heavy on McCain. Trying to please both sides does nothing but piss off voters. He needs to take a stand, but it is just not in him. Old age has him in its grasp. It is going to be a bad year for the Republicans.

Cheers,

-Robert-