Arianna (please note: first-name basis with blog royalty, subtle insinuations of inside access and secrets shared at late-night brie-’n'-chardonnay parties, *m’wah-m’wah* airkisses dah-links) reviews some recent derailments of the Straight Talk Express.  John McCain was always one of those guys I really wanted to like, because he was hated by all the sorts of people you would want to be hated by, and he sometimes even said things that were true, but I kept getting stuck on the fact that he was totally, totally, totally crazy.  Now that he spends weekends furiously scrubbing Jerry Falwell’s upper colon with his tongue, and weekdays at Political Re-Edumacation Camp with Karl Rove, those last vestiges of doubt have been removed.  I mean, he’d still be an improvement over Bush, but so would the second-biggest wingnut moron on Earth.  Aim high, I sez.