A Word On Losing Campaigns

The idea at this point is not for John McCain to win his campaign. That is over -- or at least it will be, when he pusses out next Wednesday and fails, once again, to challenge Obama in any meaningful way.

The rest of this month will be an effort by the GOP and especially the very frightened, very insecure and angry McCain partisans, to damage Barack Obama badly enough that he will be unable to govern effectively from the start of his term. That means an endless repetition of the same smears and vicious lies we've heard already, only louder and in the most crude, malevolent forms.

Politics of personal destruction, indeed. The Republicans are truly the masters of self-delusion and projection.