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I've been thinking for some time that this was going to be one of the weirdest presidential elections in modern history. They've all been weird in various ways, but the *intensity* of the weirdness is striking.
Partly it's the extremism of the contemporary GOP: they've all lost their minds, from a policy point-of-view, and this kind of extremism inevitably leads to some very weird shit.
Partly it's McCain's secret knowledge that he's going to lose this one. Whether he does, or he doesn't, he seems to think he's going to lose, and so do his people. The GOP seems to be angling for what happens after he loses, with an eye to making the Obama presidency a failure. That would be typical of them, too.
When people get extreme, weird things happen. I don't think we've seen the end of the weirdness by any means, either.
Don't ever think for one second that the GOP "loves this Country." First of all, they don't have the faintest idea what this country is supposed to stand for. Ben Franklin would have laughed until he gagged at these monarchists. The GOP would be much happier, as a group, in Putin's Russia.
The GOP will always put its own benefit ahead of "the Country." Cindy McCain's freudian slip illustrated that fact perfectly. McCain's "country first" is just more cynical bullshit from a campaign that should be choking on the eyebrow-deep bovine-waste in which they are buried.
