Honor and McCain

There's been a lot of talk lately about honor with respect to John McCain.

His latest move, which proves the old saying "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" and shows that, for McCain, partisan politics trumps everything, including family: is the hiring of Tucker Eskew for his presidential campaign.

Who is Tucker Eskew you ask? Here is Eskew's official White House bio.

Tucker directed communications for the South Carolina presidential primary campaign of then-Governor George W. Bush.

And what happened in South Carolina in 2000? Eskew smeared John McCain and his family.

A smear campaign during the primary in February 2000 here had many in South Carolina falsely believing that Mr. McCain’s wife, Cindy, was a drug addict and that the couple’s adopted daughter, Bridget, was the product of an illicit union. Mr. McCain’s patriotism, mental well-being and sexuality were also viciously called into question.

So we now know that John McCain values the presidency more than he values his family. That McCain would hire a man who delivered such vicious and patently untrue hits against him and his family, and helped George W. Bush beat McCain for the Republican nomination, shows just how little character he has and what little honor he has. Very few men would hire a man who once trashed his wife and daughter. Most of us would find it hard not to punch the guy in the face. Apparently, John McCain has no sense of honor and no respect for his wife or his daughter. Well, we already knew what John thought of Cindy.

Those signs in St. Paul at the GOP convention shouldn't have read "Country First", they should have read "Me First."