Not only a schmuck .. but a major disappointment as well.

For months there were many happy that the presumed GOP nominee, regardless of a stance on warfare, would be anti-torture. The man who endured so much when he was the captive of Vietnam. Bones broken and re-broken to the point where now he can't even move them in certain ways.

John McCain angered fellow Republicans at a few debates, too. Mitt Romney even argued at one point (though not in a straight-forward way but when did he?) that the United States must leave everything on the table. McCain always tabled one thing: Waterboarding. It looked like no matter who won in November, the era of waterboarding would be left with the former Administration officials that introduced America to the practice.. Romney and company argued, though, that America was just and moral. McCain argued correctly that no matter how wretched a person we were dealing with, when we delve to their levels we won't get back out of the mess we created.

Fast forward .. McCain this week had his chance to do the right thing, stand up, be the maverick, and hold firm: He did just the opposite.

The same day that John McCain spoke out against waterboarding he voted against a bill sponsored by anti-torture Senators that sought to ban waterboarding and other controversial interrogation techniques..

McCain said that while he remains opposed to waterboarding, "We always supported allowing the CIA to use extra measures."

The maverick .. not so maverick anymore. The front-runner. .a little schmucked up now.

What those 'extra' measures may be isn't for me to ponder. He led us all down the road by hand, we believed he was on the good fight side.. only to find out his straight talk express doesn't take the same exit that most of the country does. Who exactly is driving the bus?

John McCain.. the schmuck of the week.