John, I can’t tell you how unhappy I am to see what you have become. I so admired you in the past.  You were the self-proclaimed “maverick” in the senate. You were a moderate when so many of your GOP colleagues were turning to the right fringes of your party.  You did not strictly tow the party line when so many other were afraid not to.  I actually looked up to you as the person who would bring the GOP back to the center.

But then in 2008 you seemed to start unraveling.  When you chose Sarah as your running mate I began doubting your wisdom.  I couldn’t have dreamed of a worse choice, that is until Romney’s choice. (I just don’t understand why the GOP guys pick such radicals to be “a heartbeat away”?)  Then came the campaign season where like so many others in politics you mutated into something completely unlike the original you. You seemed to bend in whatever direction your handlers instructed you. I couldn’t understand why you did not hold to your principles.

Now here you are  viciously attacking a person who was only relaying  the info both you and she were provided.  You say the reason for your attacks was that four lives were lost due to the event. But you were totally silent when hundreds of thousands of lives that were lost after a person of the same last name declared with absolute certainty of WMDs in Iraq. Where was your wrath then?

You just seem to have turned into a bitter old man now who rants out of spite instead of reason. Are you still that bitter about losing in 2008? You are like some of the others I once looked up to who seem to have lived well beyond their time in the spotlight. I am sad to see that another once noble American has been lost due to the vindictiveness of our times.