Author of "Citizen McCain" jumps ship!

I am thoroughly encouraged and energized by how many thoughtful conservatives are abandoning the McCain/Palin ticket, seeing it for the shallow desperate act that it is. He can still get elected -- but the signs are that more and more thoughtful people are looking closely and not liking what they see.

If Obama sweeps, my faith in humanity might need revision on the positive side. Good grief ha ha!

clipped from www.politico.com How John McCain lost me By ELIZABETH DREW | 9/17/08 4:57 PM EDT  I have been a longtime admirer of John McCain. During the 2000 Republican presidential primaries I publicly defended McCain against the pro-Bush Republicans’ whisper campaign that he was too unstable to be president (aware though I was that he had a temper). Two years later I published a positive book about him, “Citizen McCain.”  clipped from www.politico.com McCain’s recent conduct of his campaign – his willingness to lie repeatedly (including in his acceptance speech) and to play Russian roulette with the vice-presidency, in order to fulfill his long-held ambition – has reinforced my earlier, and growing, sense that John McCain is not a principled man. In fact, it’s not clear who he is.