For years now I have been convinced that John S. McCain III, never the sharpest knife in the drawer by most accounts, confuses being a U.S. Senator with being a Duke in the House of Lords somewhere around the time of the Tudor dynasty.   This latest is just one more example of his attitude of how dare the voters criticize special people like himself and make them grub around raising money to get reelected.  I bought into the media positive assessment of McCain as a conservative outsider until I read The Nightingale's Song by Robert Timberg.   He has never been a conservative, but is rather a throwback to the era when aristocrats steeped in tradition believed they were entitled to run things. And spare me this political outsider crap.  The last posting assigned to this son and grandson of admirals was as the U.S. Navy's liaison officer to the U.S. Senate.  Civilians doing the same work are commonly called "lobbyists".    McCain...(Read Full Post)