John McCain has gone senile. That's the only explanation I have that can explain his seeming disconnect with reality. At first I thought it was Alzheimer's, but now I believe that McCain has come down with an extreme, terminal case of Bushitis, a rare but virulent mental disorder where one gets delusions of victory where there is nothing but abysmal failure. Some famous cases of Bushitis are Michele Malkin, Bill O'Reilly, and Fox News. First we had to deal with his jaunt through an Iraqi market, and now he claims that "...that the buildup of American forces in Iraq represented the only viable option to avoid failure in Iraq." Get it? We haven't failed yet! There's still time! But only if we surge, surge, SURGE! Furthermore, he has no Plan B should a Super Surge not work. But why would he when he's incapable of accepting failure? This would be like me sitting at the 2008 WSOP and saying my best strategy is not getting up from the table even after all my chips are gone.
Perhaps McCain is trying to out Bush, Bush for Bushness because he is stuck in 2000 when Bush used the same "stay the course" tactic (and push polling) to stomp him out of the GOP nomination. Maybe his rational for acting irrational is believing that the people want insanity. After all we elected Bush to a second term after he went into denial about Iraq and Katrina. Maybe McCain believes that we want self-delusion and so he's dishing it out in copious amounts.
But no, McCain hasn't shown that depth of political savvy and, poor man, he seems to be a true believer ready to give the benefit of the doubt to the neocons even when Iraq turns away. Determination is a quality worth emulation but when it degrades into blind stubbornness, especially in someone who has served his country with such honor, it becomes pathetic. Champion race horses are put out to pasture in their golden years, and now it looks like McCain needs to follow that same path.
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