I'll second Kevin on McCain's dearth of new ideas. Listening to his victory speech tonight, you'd have thought he was running against the Soviet Union. To some degree, that's an ideological necessity: His worldview doesn't work without a "transcendent challenge of our times." Some politicians ask us to build, McCain demands that we protect, retrench, and sacrifice. Which is why he always sounds so out-of-date. The Iraq War, at this point, doesn't lend itself to sacrifice, at least not unless he wants to up the surge to 400,000 and institute a draft. But such calls for sacrifice are the foundation of the McCain worldview, so the whole thing just comes out sounding odd. With McCain, it's always midnight in America, and did you just hear a weird noise downstairs?
