He sent his own emissaries to Georgia - I think Lieberman was one and the other was another Repub senator or congressman (I tried to search for the info but it got lost in the campaign webnoise). I did find the following:

McCain’s main foreign policy adviser and spokesperson, Randy Scheunemann, is a former registered lobbyist for the Republic of Georgia. Back in April, in an interview
with Radio Free Europe, Scheunemann took a strongly pro-Georgia
anti-Russia line, insisting that the United States should move forward
with missile defense in Poland and the Czech Republic, as well as
supporting the NATO membership of Ukraine and Georgia, regardless of
the negative consequences that the...

He sent his own emissaries to Georgia - I think Lieberman was one and the other was another Repub senator or congressman (I tried to search for the info but it got lost in the campaign webnoise). I did find the following:

McCain’s main foreign policy adviser and spokesperson, Randy Scheunemann, is a former registered lobbyist for the Republic of Georgia. Back in April, in an interview
with Radio Free Europe, Scheunemann took a strongly pro-Georgia
anti-Russia line, insisting that the United States should move forward
with missile defense in Poland and the Czech Republic, as well as
supporting the NATO membership of Ukraine and Georgia, regardless of
the negative consequences that these policies would likely have for
U.S.-Russia relations.

I thought that that kind of thing was a privilege reserved for the president. It seems rather presumptuous for a candidate to be doing that kind of diplomacy - dispatching ambassadors to a conflict zone. McCain must have some kind of vested interest in Sakartvelo that we don't know about.

sparl: not at all. An international expert at a major university deserves serious consideration. We are in a heap of trouble because the Bush-Cheney anti-intellectualism has so disdained intelligent, thoughtful opinions from people who have dedicated their lives to understand the various parts of the world and the economy.
This is not coffee shop opinion, but a valuable insight of a world expert. The populist brand of conservatism will simply sneer, I realize, but many will put it in the hopper to weigh, along with the opinions of other scholars.
Read David Brooks column on this anti-intellectualism, instinct-driven, feel-it-in-my...

sparl: not at all. An international expert at a major university deserves serious consideration. We are in a heap of trouble because the Bush-Cheney anti-intellectualism has so disdained intelligent, thoughtful opinions from people who have dedicated their lives to understand the various parts of the world and the economy.
This is not coffee shop opinion, but a valuable insight of a world expert. The populist brand of conservatism will simply sneer, I realize, but many will put it in the hopper to weigh, along with the opinions of other scholars.
Read David Brooks column on this anti-intellectualism, instinct-driven, feel-it-in-my-gut kind of conservatism. It isn't true to the best heritage of the conservative worldview. And McCain and Palin are deplorably accurate examples of it, who could do us a great deal of harm.