Personally, I lost my religion on John McCain a long time ago. After his defeat in the 1999/2000 primary, McCain -- the supposed "Maverick" who continues to receive the full Monica from the press, pivoted instantly from Bush-hating, wounded 'Vet to Bush toady. He spends more time retreating from his supposed piques at Bush, including smirking and shuffling his way around questions of why Bush dissed him early in his first term by skipping the usual signing ceremony for the McCain-Feingold (-Shays-Meehan) campaign finance reform Act, and then signing it on the down-low without McCain present, and worse, why the Bush campaign went after McCain's war record and his family during the 2000 South Carolina primary. I guess all is forgiven in politics.
Since those bitter days, McCain has graduated from Bush tolerator to full-on Bush booster, including serving as the AWOL flyboy's wing man during the 2004 campaign.
Why does he do it? First, because John McCain isn't a "maverick," as so many hopeful Democrats (who pined for him to join John Kerry's presidential ticket last year) and media suck-ups want to believe. He's a politician. He loves the limelight, loves the press plaudits, and loves the power. And these days, the way to get the power he craves is to be President Bush's best friend. So McCain will deviate from the White House when he has to (as on the nuclear option and other issues on which he sides with Democrats). But he will never fully leave him, and certainly wouldn't think of dissing him to the media.
<%
dim done
done = request.form("done")
if done = "" then
done = "No"
%>
Tell a friend
<%
Else
if request.form("done") = "Yes" then
'sets variables
dim email, sendmail
email = request.form("email")
Set sendmail = Server.CreateObject("CDONTS.NewMail")
'put the webmaster address here
sendmail.From = "webmaster@aspbasics.com"
'The mail is sent to the address entered in the previous page.
sendmail.To = email
'Enter the subject of your mail here
sendmail.Subject = "Check out this website"
'send a specific page or send a site url
dim url
'url = Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_REFERER")
url = "http://www.aspbasics.net"
'This is the content of the message.
sendmail.Body = "Site recommendation from a friend!" & _
vbCrlf & vbCrlf & "A friend has sent you this email and thought you would should check out this site." & _
vbCrlf & url & vbCrlf
'this sets mail priority.... 0=low 1=normal 2=high
sendmail.Importance = 1
sendmail.Send 'Send the email!
response.redirect Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_REFERER")
'Response.write ("Sent to ") & email
End if
End if
%>
"[T]he practice of arbitrary imprisonments, have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.' Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 84, August, 1788
