ratbastid

I think he sometimes just doesn't think before he talks--the "bold, free-wheeling, straight-shooting maverick" thing. Worked for him when he was actually campaigning on things he believed, but now his campaign has gone into tack-right pander mode, and what he has to say isn't natural for him anymore, and things get wacky.

His campaign has been saying very strange things lately about "keeping the candidate focused on the campaign's message". VERY strange thing to say. Makes one wonder exactly what we're supposed to be voting for, when we vote McCain.

Other times, I think he just talks out his ass and isn't used to having every utterance scrutinized. He pulled the "Iran training Al Qaida" thing straight out of his ass. It's clear he was making that up as he went along. And the "Iraq/Pakistan border" thing was a bluff--if you watch closely, he's practically daring us to check that fact. It's all over him that he wants us to think he knows something we don't. He wants to come off as informed, so he makes up some information that sounds plausible.

I think if he was seriously senile, it'd be harder for him to string thoughts together. He's not incoherent. He just has CRS syndrome.