EXACTLY! With McCain, talk is cheap. I’ll take him seriously as a “maverick” when he *does* something - successfully!

I wonder if the silence on this one then is a repayment for that travesty.

Well then, if we’re out rescuing the oppressed, we could free about a billion people if we knock over the Beijing regime, eh? Side benefit: fresh chinese take-out!

Sorry - no mulligans are available. Any non-vote (or even 3rd party vote) was a non-factor. A winner would have been declared either way - there is no quorum call in this democratic republic. So T.S., Eliot. The choice always was The Democrat or The Republican.

Well struck, old bean!

Actually, the “Bernie hack” was DNC internal politics; the Rooskies were/are an external organization interfering with DNC operations. There’s IS enough of a difference to justify outrage at one and not the other. The DNC heads vastly preferred the person who actually identified herself as a Democrat, who had worked…