McCain Gets REALLY Bizarre

For months, of course, the McCain campaign has been an embarrassing collection of blunders, bloopers, mean-spirited ad hominem attacks, and recantation of everything he used to claim to stand for. But the last few days make me wonder if he and his advisors could pass a sanity test administered by a competent psychiatrist:

This absurd and desperate ploy to cancel both the presidential and vice-presidential debates on the grounds that McCain wants to roll up his sleeves and save the economy–the same economy that he said just the other day ws fundamentally sound. Does anyone really believe this is not just a pathetic attempt to duck out on the challenge form a better informed and more articulate opponent who can clean McCain’s clock on the economy and seems to actually have a better grasp of McCain’s supposed area of strength: foreign policy

Acting like the press, once a strong sector of McCain support, is some kind of enemy to be starved of information–and then being surprised when the press turns negative

Claiming that an initiative Obama supported to help children differentiate between appropriate and abusive touch was “sex education for kindergarteners”

Conservative columnist George Will today said that McCain has been acting like a “flustered rookie” and that he’s not fit to be president. And Will noted that McCain’s peculiar idea to replace SEC Chair Chris Cox with Andrew Cuomo even attracted the ire of the Wall Street Journal:

“McCain untethered” — disconnected from knowledge and principle — had made a “false and deeply unfair” attack on Cox that was “unpresidential” and demonstrated that McCain “doesn’t understand what’s happening on Wall Street any better than Barack Obama does.”

But the best commentary I’ve seen was a scathingly hilarious piece by Bob Cesca on Huffington Post called “McCain’s foreign Policy: Blurt Out Random Crap.” I would not want to get on the bad side of this guy.

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