One for Sorrow

Really, I didn't even take anything he said personally, though to be honest I didn't quite hear the bit about 'women's health' and/or it didn't fully register. He really just don't 'hear' anything outside his own index card one-dimensional understanding, as I noted in my post; it doesn't matter if it's women's health as a reason or any other contextual implication, 'cause he consistently dismissed all of them. It's really hard to believe this guy has a history of bipartisanship. For real. The only thing I can imagine is that he simply ignores aspects of people and in fact relies on the 'good old boy' vibe (ie, 'I know you, you're a fine fellow, let's shake hands and be honorable men', or whatever, unless he feels threatened or displaced).

I think that there are a lot of issues that McCain has flipflopped on just in this election in order to win the Republican vote. So it makes sense to me that when he defends them he's only got a one dimensional answer that doesn't take context into account, because the position he's defending isn't the one that he's actually arrived at through his own thought process. He's just spitting out the buzzwords that he knows will make the base happy. And then, of course, there are the economic issues where he's just repeating what his advisors tell him. It would be interesting to go back and look at the way he was defending stuff four years ago, and ten years ago, and see if there's more depth there.