The press loves McCain? Pshaw!

I chuckled out loud today when I read this piece in the LA Times. First, it's obvious Paul Brownfield disdains manliness. He seems disgusted by any show of masculine resolve by the Republicans. But what got me was how he excused McCain from this show of manliness. I thought McCain's speech to be very firm and strong. Brownfield saw it differently:

The least manly speech of the night, oddly, was the one from a man who had spent more than five years as a POW during the Vietnam War — Sen. John McCain of Arizona. He was there to "bless the war in Iraq," as presidential historian Michael Beschloss said on PBS after McCain's speech. If I heard McCain right, he was telling us all to love one another.

and

Moore smiled, and McCain did too — a naked TV moment shared between two miscreants who probably didn't belong here.

I won't disagree that McCain sometimes doesn't seem like he belongs in the Republican party, but last night he certainly belonged at the Republican National Convention.