McCain vainly tries to deflect and counter his republican constituency's assholery

"It's alive! It's ALIIIIIVE!"

. . . frighteningly obscene.

fighter jet crash man or his constituents.

What a shocker.

This is why it was never wise to play race for votes. It was always evil, but for those not uncomfortable with using wickedness for getting elected, it's a tactic that eventually comes around to bite you in the ass. What's setting McCain up for failure here, of course, is not his innate decency beneath the facade of a pandering politician. It was his original love of votes. That love of votes drove him and his party to grasp the low hanging fruit of racial resentment and it's spin-off product of cultural insularity. Now that the next generation of desireable votes is going to be browner, he's having a tough time telling his constituents "Hey, go easy on the simmering paranoia about The Other, kids. We don't want to be too extreme about this. Heh-heh."

Good luck with that, Senator. But next time you go sailing on Lake Hatred, you might want to plan ahead for when the winds change.

. . . as the republican legislators and candidates work to appeal to these same ignorant people to reap their votes, even as they systematically marginalize their party away from where the majority of Americans reside politically. Like addicts seeking heroin, they know if they stop their destructive campaign, they'll suffer a defeating withdrawal. We are watching the self-implosion of a house of cards. Their majority of bigoted constituents are their own worst political enemies.