The question isn't if we can trust him to dispatch a cooperhead from the
porch, the question is if he will ever show up while the treat exist?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/opinion/17rich.html?hp

McCain never called for Donald Rumsfeld to be fired and didn't start
criticizing the war plan until late August 2003, nearly four months after
"Mission Accomplished." By then the growing insurgency was undeniable. On
the day Hurricane Katrina hit, McCain laughed it up with the oblivious
president at a birthday photo-op in Arizona. McCain didn't get to New
Orleans for another six months and didn't sharply express public criticism
of the Bush response to the calamity until this April, when he traveled to
the Gulf Coast in desperate search of election-year pageantry surrounding
him with black extras.

McCain long ago embraced the right's agents of intolerance, even spending
months courting the Rev. John Hagee, whose fringe views about Roman
Catholics and the Holocaust were known to anyone who can use the Internet.
(Once the McCain campaign discovered YouTube, it ditched Hagee.) On Monday
McCain is scheduled to appear at an Atlanta fund-raiser being promoted by
Ralph Reed, who is not only the former aide de camp to one of the agents of
intolerance McCain once vilified (Pat Robertson) but is also the former
Abramoff acolyte showcased in McCain's own Senate investigation of Indian
casino lobbying.