They're Confused in McCain's World

You know they're confused in McCain's world when he, McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee is running against the current sitting two-term Republican president, and even saying his Democratic opponent is like Bush, and he means that in an insulting way!

So, what can we say? This might come as a shock to you, but the last eight years simply didn't happen. You may feel like you've lived them and you may feel eight years older, but you didn't and you're not. If you're like me you have a very vivid imagination of John McCain being 99% to 100% supportive of everything George Bush wanted in those years. But since it didn't happen, our minds have been playing tricks on us again. Kind of like the "mental recession" from the other day.

As the Beatles sang, "Turn off your mind, relax and float down stream."

But wait, something must have happened in the last eight years. It can't all be imagination, can it? Because if none of this happened -- if John McCain hasn't been 99% to 100% supportive of everything George Bush wanted -- then how can we make sense now of McCain's turning the tables on Barack Obama, saying he is the candidate most like Bush? If Bush never happened, and all that other imaginary stuff never happened, how does his current charge make any sense at all?

This is like a time machine conundrum! I might meet myself coming or going and end up with a fading picture of my parents' first date. And that's one backseat I'd rather not see!

Are you confused yet? Good! Now you know what it's like to be John McCain everyday. He doesn't know anything about anything. He's still on Czechoslovakia. He's meeting with the King of Siam next week. He has some high level talks coming up with Brezhnev. He may do the whole circuit and take on Bismarck. He's confused, insane in the membrane, insane in the brain. Someone get the man help.

But just to conclude, let's go on the assumption that George W. Bush's administration has actually happened. If he shows up at the Democratic convention, that may just prove McCain's point about Obama. But what if he shows up at the Republican convention? What do you think we would learn from that?