Way back in the late winter or early spring, at a Spectator dinner, I suggested the possibility, or rather the likelihood, that John McCain might have a chance to win the election and instead grasp on a matter of FALSE honor — of honor wrongly understood, of supposed honor that was more a conceit than an objectively definable matter of real honor — and thereby lose the election that otherwise was winnable. Today, in a brilliant column, our friend Jennifer Rubin discusses the same scenario, in greater depth.
