Straight Talk Express Drives Off Cliff, Fiery Debris Runs For President

One can only wonder if years from now, historians will try to chart Sen. McCain's path from respected, straight-talking lawmaker to delusional, phony right-winger. I for one am shocked by just how quickly it happened... this man survived years of brutal torture in Vietnam, but a couple years of Bush and Cheney and the guy cracks. How sad.

In the past few years, we have seen McCain grow more and more extreme, pretending to believe in intelligent design and sucking up to every religious right leader he can get his arms around (he has hired a staffer of Jerry Falwell as a campaign advisor). This, coupled with his desire to drag Iraq deeper into the quagmire, will hopefully mean his presidential 'sure thing' odds are anything but. I knew Sen. McCain had lost it for good before the election when he threated to commit suicide if Democrats got control of the Senate (I assume Harry Reid has placed his colleague on suicide watch for his own good), but with the election over and the 2008 race not far off, he is hoping to out-right-wing all the other candidates. Sen. McCain was on ABC's 'This Week' yesterday and bloggers documented the horrors.

Watch as Sen. McCain flip-flop on Roe V. Wade and on gays in the military.

When discussing the war with Stephanopoulos, one observer noticed that, in the span of just one minute, the Senator had to repeatedly check his notes before answering the questions. Yea, that's what we need-- another President afraid to go off-script. Meanwhile, foreign policy scholar Fareed Zarkaria describes on that same show plans like McCain's for sending in more troops "just willing more american deaths". Indeed.

As for Hillary on the other side... don't even get me started.

Wanted in 2008: Sane candidate. Head firmly removed from own anus. Please apply immediately.