Not Ronnie redux

Searching for similarity

John Sidney McCain III has been doing his best in recent weeks to demonstrate his complete befuddlement on the most elementary of issues. Fortunately for him, buddies like Joe Lieberman have been close at hand to gently correct him (in front of the news cameras) whenever he forgets that Al Qaeda is Sunni and therefore not friendly with Shi'ite Iran. The mainstream media have been willing to forgive McCain his faux pas because, well, it isn't like he's a Democrat or anything. In the meantime, however, over-eager Republicans need to keep something in mind:

Just because he's senile doesn't mean that John McCain is Ronald Reagan.