Michael Gerson has written a typically vapid column, this time about John McCain. Read it if you want. Here's the only thing I wanna flag:
But McCain has at least one serious political drawback -- and it is not the "temperament issue." I have yet to hear a serious argument for the proposition that a short fuse should be disqualifying for high office. The peaceful are not always polite -- theologian Stanley Hauerwas says, "I'm a pacifist because I'm a violent son of a bitch" -- any more than the tightly coiled are always warlike.
Gerson's right about the false correlation--but I don't think his point is terribly operative when we're talking about 100-years-of-war McCain.

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McCain's angry outbursts would have long ago sunk any candidate that wasn't idolized as he is by the media. But they still luv him..., so
Gerson: But those who know McCain report a general lack of interest in domestic policy compared with his engagement in foreign affairs. "It's sometimes unfairly argued that Bush is intellectually uncurious," says one former member of Congress, "but on domestic issues that is really true of McCain."
Hey look, there's an easy explanation for McCain's actual brain involvement in anything resembling a policy problem: Reagan's Second Term Disease. McCain has reached about the same degree of senility as Reagan in his second term, where the staff ran the presidency while Nancy was on-schedule getting Ronnie to his weekly hair-color job.
McCain is just the ol' cogger that chases kids off his lawn because that's what ol' coggers do when they aren't relentlessly repeating the mantras they voiced 20 years before (all that remains of his memory). McCain is stuck in ready-pilot's quarters on an aircraft carrier (or in a POW torture cell) from his better years. Let's just leave him alone to wander the halls like Reagan did in his second term - but in an AZ place like Ronnie's 'ranch' instead of the WH.
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