Reply #6: There is the old

[H2O Man]

children's story about the Indian boy who is walking on top of a mountain. It is the cold season, and the boy sees a rattle snake shivering on the ground. The snake asks the boy to put him in his pocket, and carry him down to the warm valley. The boy says that he can't, because the snake will bite him. The snake promises that he will not, and says that he will repay the boy for saving his life.

The boy carries the snake down to the warm valley, and asks for his reward. The snake bites him. As the boy lies dying, he asks the snake, "Why did you bite me? You promised not to."

The snakes replies, "It's my nature. You knew I was a rattle snake when you picked me up."

Senator McCain knew that he was dealing with snakes. They bit him in 2000, with ugly lies. Yet he thought he would be rewarded for cuddling with the Jerry Falwells of the republican right. And now they have bit him. He should have known that this is their nature when he tried to put them in his pocket.