John McCain

James Wolcott has some thoughts on the McCain presidency, although you have to scoot past something about Rosie O'Donnell to get there. "McCain," he avers, "is running the screwiest schizo campaign."

What a fantastic candidate is John McCain. A gassy, opinionated codger, who like all others of that breed manages to be opinionated without holding any hard or fast opinions. It wouldn't do to call him contrarian or reactionary, because it's not that his thoughts align themselves in any relational aspect to the mainstream of human prejudice. He exists untethered to any external reality; his mind is full as a flea market is full of once-used and now-useless bric-a-brac, whose worth to its present seller is always vastly greater than its worth to any potential buyer. When he discovers this fact, it fills him with an unutterable rage, which reduces him to mumbles.