Quite Seriously, Is McCain Losing His Clear Thinking Due To Age?

Oops - watch it from 1 minute in, it picks up again at 2 mins.

I'm not being snarky here. Bryan also half-way mentions it in passing - but focuses on the public/private aspect. But wait, I don't mean the time tables issue, that's a McCain ploy ... I think. It's the "laying in the weeds" thing starting at two-minutes in. McCain looks like he's actually being honest criticizing Romney on that. For that to be true, McCain simply isn't understanding English very well. Or, he's blinded by dislike for Romney. There's something very wrong going on here. Watch it from 2 minutes in. Is McCain losing his mental clarity? This is a flub you would expect from a Grand father who's starting to lunch out.

Comments

[K]

I'm older than McCain and I have been suspicous of his reasoning for some time. But suspicion is only suspicion.

Some people remain able past 90, some to 80, etc. And saying that is not ageist or insulting. It is fact. A damned depressing fact. But fact nevertheless.

His speech Tuesday night from Florida surprised me. He seemed at his very best. A day later and ?

[Sara]

I saw that Dan and thought he'd lost it. Even Romney said, "what does that mean?" It was so totally off the wall, like McCain was saying, "okay, I got it, I went overboard on the timetable thing, but but but ... you were still saying ..." It made absolutely no sense. What point was he trying to make? Was it that he thinks Romney wants, our guys relegated to the weeds, or what?

[jjshaka]

Not good- this guy has lost whatever fastball he had.
He will get killed in an extended debate in Oct.

[templar knight]

Well, if it's down to McCain VS. Romney, I'm going to have to eat my words and throw in with Romney. McCain is absolutely the worst possible candidate the Republicans can field. Really, I'm depressed. The only thing that could depress me worse would be having to support the Hillary-Obama winner. Yuk, chris/Boob, just yuk on the Democratics winner.

[TheSpartan]

It would seem rather appropriate to lose one's mind at the Reagan Library.

[TheSpartan]

BTW, does is seem hypocritical to anyone else that Dan has spent the past weeks trying to tear down McCain but he seems more than willing to take his money in the form of advertising dollars?

[templar knight]

Well, Sparty, I didn't think Dan was blogging for his health. I'm sure he would like to make a buck or two to pay for all this bandwidth. I think liberal rags usually take money for advertisements as well, and most of them allow normal people to place ads in them, although I don't know why normal people would want to, but hey! Business is business.

[TheSpartan]

True Temp, but would he take money from the Clinton campaign to run an ad? And if he did, what would the mass reaction to that be here? It seems hypocritical to me.

[seekeronos]

FWIW, I thought I saw a PollingPoint advert up here with Hillary's greasy mane and crackled, wrinkly skin up on the right in the banner rotation several weeks ago.