More on McCain as the one...

Great post from Kevin Drum,

This year he's 72 but things are no different. Instead of running a decent
and honorable campaign, he and his surrogates are reigniting a culture war he
doesn't even believe in; relentlessly belittling and trivializing instead of
addressing serious issues; repeatedly accusing his opponent of not caring about
his country; stubbornly refusing to condemn even the vilest character
assassinations; and finally choosing a manifestly unprepared and unvetted
running mate in order to gain a momentary political advantage with a Christian
right base that has never trusted him but that he needs to win the election. He
does all this because, as his convention speech made clear, he believes he's on
a higher mission. His character is what this campaign is about — or rather his
own image of his character — and it's this belief in his own self-righteousness
that allows him to justify his every action with a clear conscience. He has to
win, you see, for the good of the country. He's the only man who can do
it.

And that's the most dangerous attitude of all, because a person who
believes that can talk himself into almost anything. And if it doesn't work out?
He'll apologize later.

He's the candidate with the Messiah Complex in this race. He's the candidate short on solutions but with a full on sense of entitlement.

It's time for the gloves to come off but I am as confident today as I have ever been that this race is Obama's to lose.