A reader forgives me:
I probably disagree with the majority of McCain’s positions, but I, too, found his commencement speech moving, inspirational and, above all, eloquent. It was also full of the left’s supposed favorite thing: nuance.
I do hope that McCain makes it past the primaries, if only to raise the quality of discourse. The last election was a battle between Bush’s focus-group driven platitudes ("I’m a uniter, not a divider") and Kerry’s mealy-mouthed drivel ("I voted for it before I voted against it"). In sharp contrast to those two, McCain’s public statements are usually refreshingly direct, and his speeches address his audience as intelligent human beings rather than aggregations of polling data.
I don’t think you’re the only one on the right, left or center who’s hungry for a leader like McCain. A little extra exuberance about genuine leadership can be excused, given that there’s so little of it in the current political milieu.
The Dish 