xrundog: if it wasn't for special interest groups and the billions of dollars put out for the bush campaign and the negative, lying, bs campaign against mccain in that state that he lost and effectively took him, mccain out of the race, do you think any intelligent society would have elected the nincompoop to any position other than file clerk. come on, who would want some one who spent his life protected by the influence his daddy provided, someone with reasonable clues to heavy drinking and drug use, someone who not only got special preference so he wouldn't have to go to war and get a booboo, and still went awol from his preferential treatment, someone who is obviously a complete dope, in charge of anything?