Be afraid.

"They always laugh that if they wound up being the nominees of their party, it would be the most civilized election in American history, and they're afraid they'd put the voters to sleep because they like and respect each other."

Bill Clinton, via Political Wire, on Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. John McCain.

While I'd willingly toss off a snappy salute to a John McCain who once was, the John McCain who is has forfeited any reasonable claim to contemporary respect. He just has. "Liking and respecting" him in 2008 is suspect behavior. It just is.