Examples of McCain's judgment, or lack thereof...

In a not-so-subtle attempt to court Nevada voters, John McCain has reversed his longstanding position of using the Yucca Mountain to store large amounts of spent nuclear fuel, saying he now wants to ship the radioactive waste overseas.  The Las Vegas Sun calls him on it:  "If a man told you for years that he didn’t love you, essentially had no regard for you at all, and then suddenly, when he needed you, told you he adored you, would you fall for it?  As John McCain, alighting in Reno, tries to woo Nevada voters, he is hoping for the kind of short-term memory loss Christopher Nolan wrote about and filmed in Memento."  Sun writer Jon Ralston goes on to imagine what sort of merry nuclear transport that might be:  "Will Kathie Lee Gifford be seen dancing on a Carnival deck, pointing to canisters and promising cut rates to those tourists who travel onboard? John McCain’s Love Boat?"  Knowing Republicans, just about any environmentally sensitive global region would be a good place to dump toxic materials.  Rainforests, barrier reefs, y'know, wherever.
 
On the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, Senator John McCain insisted that his late father-in-law is a role model for young Americans:  "I'll continue to say I am blessed and very proud (of) Jim Hensley, a war hero, a man who barely graduated from high school... and I think he is a role model to many young Americans."  But McCain didn't mention that Hensley "founded a hugely-profitable liquor distributorship in Phoenix" or that "the business has a long, well-documented history of connections to bootlegging and organized crime."  He also didn't mention that Cindy's dad was a convicted felon.  This is McCain's idea of a role model? 
      
The Jed Report questions John McCain's "Maverick" credentials:  "This alone proves that John McCain has bad foreign policy judgment:  In 2001, he said that if he'd been president, he'd have picked Donald Rumsfeld to be his Secretary of Defense and Dick Cheney to be his VP.  Together, he said, they formed the 'strongest' national security team we've ever had."  Do I hear an "oops" somewhere?