McCain Undone by Selfish Tongue

Re; Dowd's "Who's the Question Mark?"

The tragedy of American politics is that, too often, men of integrity sell their souls. McCain's desperate last acts speak volumes. Rarely does human drama of such Shakespearean portions play itself out on such a grand scale. Pity the old prince at the center of the tragedy opted to forgo his dignity in his lust for the keys to the Castle.

As the curtain draws, all he he has left America with is a taste of vile partisanship - based on the unfounded fear of the 'other'. Alas, if politics reveals the measure of a man - McCain may well find himself on Nov. 5th in front of the the mirror realizing he is but a shell of his past promise, muttering all the while "Done to death by slanderous tongue".

Of course, the tongue of which he speaks will have been his own.
Was the Hero that here lies"O happy dagger!
This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die."