I Hate What You Just Said

John McCain, who has long sought to portray himself as an independent-thinking maverick, is flip-flopping and hemming and hawing and referring to countries that don’t exist and backtracking and triangulating and…

Well, just read Matthew Yglesias here.

And he links to this and this.

McCain’s campaign is looking more pathetic all the time. And yet, polls suggest he could win.

(Yeah, yeah. Polls at this time of year often mean virtually nothing. But the fact that it is even close is ridiculously depressing, isn’t it?)