I mostly don't agree with his political and general world views either. Nor some of his political tactics. But unlike with perhaps 80% of the people who share those views, I believe he holds them because he thinks they will result in good for people in general.  That he wants to serve. That he has integrity. That is because of what he went through in Vietnam; I believe no one who survives that kind of horrific life changing experience wastes time on bullshitting people. They know how important every human life is. (Especially someone who was a party boy before undergoing the experience) Without him and few others supporting conservative views, I might not even consider them genuine beliefs at all. So someone like him challenges my views, whereas with others I just dismiss them as not genuine or not informed or that they are just not good human beings.

That said, the most disappointing thing he ever did for his reputation with me was select Sarah Palin for a V.P. running mate! I still can't get my mind around that mistake and synch it with what I know about him. Maybe the brain tumor was already pressing on a certain part of his brain....

P.S. I heard O'Donnell say Mom McCain was 105! 105! Another thing: strange, as per the CNN article, that this is the same exact cancer that took down Ted Kennedy.

eh, I don't know, know you're being facetious, but even so....call me cynical but when you do your own health care Rambo style while a P.O.W., including not being treated for all kinds of broken bones and torture, so for the rest of your life you have handicaps like you can't raise your arms above your waist, you might not be so sympathetic to someone with like, an stye on their eyelid or even limb paralysis. It's a known tough guy thing that I happen to abhor: quit yur whining, push through the pain, know plenty of guys who have lived through a lot less and think it, the type that don't believe in most of what doctors do. I suspect he might have a bit of this attitude, to sum up: too much health care bad for people.