repubs are acheivers and hard workers, yet both Bush and McCain are just the opposite. They are from the elite ruling class, and have absolutely no clue about things average people deal with every day: finding and keeping a job, paying bills, buying groceries, keeping the car running, paying a mortgage. They got where they were ONLY because of family connections, not because of any intelligence or hard work. They are silver spoon underacheivers extraordinaire.

Yeager was a test pilot, and yet I don't believe he crashed anywhere near as many planes in a much longer and more dangerous career than McCain. McCain's Navy career was advanced solely by his father's influence, not by any demonstrated competency or ability.

McCain is judged on his divorce because of the repub party's "family values". If the tables were reversed, and Obama had divorced his disfigured wife to marry a rich heiress he had been screwing while he was still married, it would be a 24/7 news story that would make the Rev. Wright story seem like an insignificant mosquito bite. The saying "live by the sword, die by the sword" is taking repubs down left and right, and McCain is no better than a lot of those others. He's getting a free pass on this.

The Forrestal is also something that needs more attention. If if was ok for repubs to smear Kerry with false allegations about his Vietnam service, it should be perfectly acceptable for dems to question McCain's actions in this incident.

Dems have far more than that to use against McCain. He is obviously in failing mental health, with numerous gaffes and mistakes, not to mention bald-faced lies. His famous temper and lack of sound judgement has even repub colleagues in the Senate, who have known him for years, saying he is not a good choice for the White House. His judgement is poor at best, his knowledge on things such as the economy is weak. I thought repubs could never come up with someone even worse than Bush, but I underestimated their resourcefulness. Crash McGrandpa is at least as dumb as Bush, with an even more unstable personality. The world should be very, very afraid.