It's interesing to me that John McCain ran on his honor and, for good or ill, seemed to pull his punches in what turned out to be a rather muted campaign against Obama. His motives were likely good (though one can't know if he ran the campaign he did simply to protect his reputation in the Senate) but it's interesting that his sense of honor didn't extend to the point of protecting the reputation of Sarah Palin, a political newbie on the D.C. scene. From Byron York on The Corner:
The question here is not whether Palin was a good or a bad choice for vice president. Reasonable people disagree on that one. It's about the character of the McCain campaign. There is no doubt that it included some fine people who, whatever their opinions, wouldn't be involved in this kind of behavior. But it also, obviously, included some who would. John McCain ran for president, to some large degree, on the character he had displayed throughout his life. Not so for some of those around him.
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