John McCain isn't confused

The Obama folks are being too nice to McCain...calling him "confused" suggests his views are remediable, that with the proper information, John McCain's state of confusion can be fixed.   I doubt it.   I think McCain is in a far more incorrigible state.

That's not to say McCain is not prone to confusion generally, like when he mixed up Sunni and Shia and which country is training Al Qaeda.  

But confusion is kind of forgivable.  We all get confused sometimes.  Hell, I get confused.  I thought John McCain was against the Bush tax cuts, but then he's for them.  Very confusing to me, I must admit.

But this notion that we can keep keep troops in Iraq without casualties like in Germany and South Korea goes way beyond confusion and an out-of-touch state.   It speaks to being stubborn, dishonest, and delusional.

To me there are several possibilities why John McCain seems to think comparing the Middle East to Korea or Germany is valid.

1) He's stubborn.  

Instead of admitting he make a mistake in Iraq and admitting he's dug himself into a hole, he keeps digging.  

That's different from confusion...it suggests McCain is someone whose ego is so fragile that he needs to blind himself to the truth in order to sleep well at night.  

I think there has to be an element of this to John McCain.  I mean, seriously...if your wife playfully teases you that your hair is thinning, what kind of person responds by calling her a c*nt and a trollop?   Someone who has a very fragile ego, that's who.   No wonder John McCain loves the media so much...having reporters-as-groupies on his bus probably enhances his constant need for praise and validation.  

Jeez, John.  Get yourself a mirror and repeat these words, "You're good enough, you're smart enough, and gosh-darnit reporters like you."  

2) He's lying

Under this scenario he knows that what he is saying is false, but he is saying it anyway for political reasons so not to offend the neocons, his last bastion of base support since fiscal and social conservatives don't trust him.  This is definitely a possibililty.  John McCain has shown in this campaign that he doesn't really have any core principles, his maverick media image notwithstanding.  He flip-flops on the Bush tax cuts, what he thinks of Jerry Falwell, etc with ease because that is what he needed to do to win.  Who knows where John McCain really stands?  He just does whatever is best for him politically at the moment.

3) He's delusional

Ok, maybe McCain really believes that it is just as likely to prevent suicide bombers in Baghdad as in Berlin.  Perhaps he really believes in unicorns and flying pigs as well.  That's more than confusion, folks.    It's a permanently pollyannish distortion of reality.  

But I can't fault the Obama campaign for being a little less than precise.  I understand the political reasons to call him confused, since it's not PC to call him a deluded, stubborn liar with a pathologically fragile ego - a more accurate description, in my opinion