Did McCain suddenly become [bold mine-DL] a stumbling failure? ~Michael Gerson Not at all.  He didn’t become anything that he hadn’t been for the months and years that he was campaigning before mid-September.  There was no strange transmutation after the financial crisis broke into open view.  He had been what he recently showed himself to be–Gerson’s phrase of “stumbling failure” … Continue reading This Game Doesn’t Build Character, It Reveals It