This won't be a popular column, because John McCain is not popular with conservatives.  However, I invite my fellow conservatives to rise above their deeply ingrained dislike of McCain to consider him as a man, making a courageous decision at the end of his life. Two caveats.  First, my father died a few years ago from a similar kind of brain cancer.  He did not discontinue treatments until it became clear they weren't going to work, and in many ways, the physical cost of the treatments to him – as shown in the last photo taken of that once vibrant, imposingly physical man – was devastating.  Next, my mother recently died, peacefully and without being ravaged by chemotherapy or radiation therapy, from a different kind of cancer.  At 92 and ready to move on to the next world, she refused treatment, and – after a long and productive life – she passed quietly. I mention this because I'm not...(Read Full Post)