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"Watching (McCain), one can only wonder: Is he betraying his best self? Who is the real McCain?

Even some of McCain's former aides are disturbed by the 73-year-old's hostile, vindictive, sarcastic persona - a far cry from "The Honorable Man" portrait so lovingly pumped up in books by his former aide and co-writer Mark Salter. After he lost to W. in a nasty primary battle in 2000, McCain delighted in poking at the new Republican president. But he was a trenchant critic of W.'s budget-busting tax cuts and other policies because his objections were consistent and honestly felt. (Or so we thought.)

Now he delights in attacking another man he ran against and lost to: a new Democratic president who had once hoped, based on McCain's past positions, that his former Republican rival might be of help in such areas as the economy, national security, immigration and climate change.

With President Obama, McCain's objections seem motivated more by vendetta than principle."

????? Excuse me ?????

What is the Big Question here? John McCain is the same snotball who delighted in BFF Joe-the-Traitor Lieberman's loving presidential endorsement. John McCain is the same ____ [fill in the blank] who gave us Joe-the-Plumber Dipshit and Sarah-the-Rogue Moron. How can Maureen Dowd ask who the Real McCain is when anyone who has been paying the least bit of attention over the past couple of years knows that this Over-the-Hill Career Politician is merely a delusional, perhaps even demented, hypocrite. Which does nothing to differentiate him from the rest of the republican trolls.