re: #207 Dr Lizardo

Unreal. Was Coochie trying to appeal to the neo-Confederate/redneck/Teabagger voters only? That seems a rather suicidal strategy, but then I’ve only been to VA as a tourist once for a few days, so I can’t say I have any deep knowledge of VA’s internal politics.

He thinks McCain should have appealed to those voters even more, after he had already given them the giant word salad that is Sarah Palin.

But while the McCain family’s 19th and 20th Century roots are in Mississippi, John S. McCain III is not ‘from the South’. He has made clear he was really from the US Navy and expect for his time as a POW he was rarely in one place for long till he retired from it. Thus waving the Confederate flag holds no appeal for Sen. McCain, as he feels no real attachment to it.