I guess he hasn't been following the Obama coverage

McCain "Saddened" By "Vicious Attacks" On Palin

Senator John McCain, (R-A.Z.), lamented on Sunday the treatment of the woman he tapped to be his vice president, declaring that former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin had been the victim of "vicious attacks" the likes of which he had never seen.

McCain insisted, during an interview with CNN's State of the Union, that Palin would continue to play an active and important role in Republican politics despite stepping down from the governor's chair. He called that decision to leave office a year-and-a-half prematurely, the "best" one Palin could have made for herself, her country, and her family.

Pointing to the Alaskan's critics, McCain said he was "kind of be saddened by the fact that there's still such vicious attacks on her and her family."

"I mean, I've never seen anything quite like it," he said, though it was unclear which critics he was referring to. "I respect her. I appreciate her. I think she has a role to play in the future."

Later in the segment, McCain said he would gladly have Palin campaign with him in Arizona, as he runs for re-election in 2010. He would not, conversely, commit to voting for her or any other potential Republican candidate for president in 2012, citing the distance between now and then, and the uncertainty of who, in fact, was going to make a White House run.

(Huffington Post)

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I guess he has never seen such "vicious attacks" on a politician (apparently, repeating someone's own words is now a vicious attack - at least if they are a moron) because no one has been in the national spotlight who has been this unqualified.

But, if he is looking for completely unwarranted attacks, then he just has to watch the coverage of Obama - has any other natural born citizen who became president ever has his nationality questioned before - despite clear proof? Has any other president received such slanderous assaults for trying to help this country and our world? Yes, he has received legitimate criticism, but he has received far more absurd, biased, baseless attacks than Palin has, by a long shot.