Never Surrender?

John McCain seems to have forgotten that he was once a POW of the North Vietnam government. While the Politically Correct post-Vietnam angst of Americans is to glorify and nobilize the POW's of the Vietnam War, the fact of the matter is that in order to become a POW, one must, by necessity, SURRENDER! As painful as it must have been; as helpless as he must have been; HE SURRENDERED! Granted, he had little choice in the matter...yet....HE SURRENDERED!

But now, as the presumptive Republican candidate, he insists on using this slogan "Never Surrender" for the catastrophe in Iraq. Militarily, of course, we will win every battle. The surge, militarily, works. Other than that....

Unfortunately for the once maverick of the Republican Party, he continues to surrender on issues that should be near and dear to him for the sake of trying to become the oldest incoming president in history. He has surrendered on Guantanamo. He has surrendered on torture. He has surrendered the Geneva Conventions. One can only surmise that he is either a coward and he is betraying his heroic military and political service, or he is surrendering his mind.

He has shown signs of being Reaganesque, but not in a desirable way. With Senator and Republican Vice-Presidential wannabe Joe Lieberman at his side performing the Nancy Reagan role, he has time and again had to be reminded and corrected on many facts he had in error. Are these just senior moments, or worse, early stages of Alzheimer's. As we later discovered about Ronald Reagan, it was the latter!