Someone Get That Crack Pipe Away From McCain Before He Blows This Election!

I trace it back to the summer, whenever it was that McCain stopped talking to reporters. Giving the media a wealth of material and straight talk helped get the senator his party's nomination; why quit? Then he tapped Governor Palin: charming, of course, but an odd choice to bolster one's own position with the public. Few people outside of Seward's Folly even knew her name. McCain had to sell her, instead of benefitting from the reflected light of a respected and well-known public figure with complementary expertise (see Joe Biden for Vice President, the picking of). And then he went on, like a frenzied chamois leaping from Alpine peak to peak, to fumble the national banking crisis with conflicting statements, and then by "suspending his campaign". He raced to Capitol Hill, which has not resounded with his step in months, where Congress felt it could carry on notwithstanding his absence. He is now rounding out the image of a punchy hothead by the too-frequent use of the phrase "my friends" and a slightly inebriated sense of excitement in his demeanor. Has he lost all shame? Perhaps he should take a little rest time at one of his seven houses to compose himself instead of turning to drugs.