It is never an asset to me, vs. McCain or anyone else. If she will do this to McCain, she’ll do it to the American people if she gets elected. If the people can’t have even the most basic amount of trust in a candidate, that candidate shouldn’t be President. Seems pretty simple to me.

I find it sad that one of the principles I value in a candidate the most is the least likely to be the one I’ll get on the campaign trail. That principle is: honesty. Even when it hurts or isn’t what the people want to hear, it’s what we ought to have. Too many people would rather have sunshine blown up their *** these days, but who started that? Politicians –telling us what we wanted to hear, even when they knew reality was different, and that has perpetuated the cycle. Promising us the moon, even when we knew it couldn’t happen (though deluding ourselves sometimes seems to be a national pastime).

I guess that there are two solutions to this problem: One –we need politicians that will tell us the truth. But to get that, we need solution number two: We need to stop “drinking the sand” we’re told is water, and demand honesty from them.