Editor’s Note: Monica Crowley, Ph.D., is a panelist on The McLaughlin Group, the host of the nationally syndicated radio program "The Monica Crowley Show" and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

There’s a fine line between "maverick" and "ass." On Friday, John McCain crossed that line right into ass-dom. At a campaign rally, McCain stood in front of his own supporters and told them Barack Obama isn’t so bad. We need not fear an Obama presidency, he said. After all, Obama is a "decent" man. McCain went on to say he still believes he’d be the better president.

Thanks, Mac. How about a cocktail with that grenade you just blew up in our faces?

McCain understandably — and justifiably — got booed by those at his rally. They were there to support him. To cheer him on. To buoy him at a time of sinking poll numbers. To give him the energy to fight on.

What they got in return was a suggestion from their guy that it was OK to vote for the other guy.

Well, Sen. McCain: You may not be angry, but we are. You may not be upset that Obama is about to walk away with this election, but we are. You may not be concerned that ACORN is making off with stuffed ballot boxes, but we are. You may not be teed off about the economic mess, but we are. You may not be upset about America’s enemies — from Russia to Iran to North Korea — reasserting themselves, but we are. You may think an Obama presidency won’t be "scary," but we do.

You may be willing to toss in the towel, but we aren’t.

Senator: You’ve got three weeks to turn this sucker around. Three weeks to remind us how "scary" an Obama presidency will be: from appeasing our enemies to filling three Supreme Court vacancies to taxing us to death and killing whatever’s left of the economy.

Maybe that doesn’t scare you, but it scares us to pieces.

We are fighting for you. We expect you to do the bare minimum in your own fight. And right now, you’re not even doing that.

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