You wrote: ““When you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.” What a jerk.”
Here’s a good example of that and the lack of other proper “discernments”:
Mr McCain told voters that Mr. Obama is “a decent person and a person you do not have to be scared of as president of the United States.”
McCain tells voters: We have nothing to fear with Barack Obama in the White House)
The Daily Mail ^ | 2008-10-13
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1076999/McCain-appears-concede-lose-telling-voters-We-fear-Barack-Obama-White-House.html
John McCain is in more hot water after appearing to concede he could lose the US presidential election by telling voters they have nothing to fear with Barack Obama in the White House.
The extraordinary gaffe comes just three weeks before Election Day with the Republican candidate trailing badly in the polls.
Now Republican aides fear he may have further damaged his chances by accepting the possibility that he could be defeated. ......
Mr. McCain made his remark while appealing for calm on the campaign trail amid fears that angry outbursts from supporters were raging out of control.
After a particularly fired-up rally in Minnesota, Mr McCain was booed when he tried to soothe the crowd, defending Mr. Obama as “a decent person and a person you do not have to be scared of as president of the United States.”
bttt
McCain fights with his “maverick” and his “Senate Friend” sides.
He doesn’t look comfortable in either costume.