A Loaded Question

Shouldn't the Right wing world view, and its detachment from anything approaching "reality", be enough to disqualify a right wing President such as John McCain?

Sometimes I think McCain is actually smart enough not to believe the insane points of view of the far right. Other times not so much.

Part of the problem facing the Democrats this election bears on this point. Out of touch needs to become the watchwords. However, the republicans are attempting to make their greatest weakness, their being completely out of touch with the times and with the destruction their policies have wrought, into a slam on McCain's age. I am sure they believe this will inoculate them from electoral disaster in the fall, and it might if the Democrats don't step up to the plate on hammering this point home.

Also, at some point, I will begin making electoral college predictions. These will be completely by the seat of my pants with no real methodology behind each prediction, other than cursory looks at whatever polling data is available and my own gut feeling on it. I will update my predictions repeatedly as we get closer to the election stopping on the Monday before. Maybe if I think about this more, I can schedule when I make a prediction, but I am not making any promises.