McCain and the serfs

For years now I have been convinced that John S. McCain III, never the sharpest knife in the drawer by most accounts, confuses being a U.S. Senator with being a Duke in the House of Lords somewhere around the time of the Tudor dynasty. This latest is just one more example of his attitude of how dare the voters criticize special people like himself and make them grub around raising money to get reelected. I bought into the media positive assessment of McCain as a conservative outsider until I read The Nightengale’s Song by Robert Timberg. He has never been a conservative, but is rather a throwback to the era when aristocrats steeped in tradition believed they were entitled to run things. Read on.