http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=771909

Yet it was the McCain campaign threw out a 61 year old librarian who showed up at a town hall meeting.

The McCain town halls are as scripted as  the Bush town halls but they are not always as good as tossing out the
 few dissidents who manage to sneak in or occasionally a "helpful" surrogate like Carly Fiorina or Phil Gramm gets McCain in hot water.

His real bamboozlement is the Bush third term criticism.  He mentions that he opposed the Bush tax cuts because he did not see a restraint on spending (without mentioning he now supports them which is noted by the Journal Sentinel). Does any one remember Bush or McCain supporting new restraints on spending that makes up for the cost of extending the tax cuts.? Earmarks are a tiny fraction of the cost of extending the Bush tax cuts.

He lists the immigration reform bill as an example of his political courage of takng on his party without mentioning that he would have voted against his own bill. Of course he was trying to appeal to that same base he wanted to take on and show his "independence."

The article from the JS online is typical of the fawning treatment that McCain gets from the media.  The most negative part of the article occurs in a side bar how McCain changed his POW story from naming his men after Packer players in his memoirs to Steeler players while campaigning in Pennsylvania. It was kind of bad luck for McCain to be in Wisconsin and Green Bay Packer country immediately after his Pittsburgh gaffe.

If it was not for that side bar, this article could have been written by a McCain campaign staffer.