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MANIFESTO

It's official.

John McCain is telling supporters he is definitely running for another term in the US Senate after the bitter disappointment of losing his presidential bid—and he's saying that the economic crisis was the clincher.

"The magnitude of the financial crisis that many American families are facing makes it clear to me that I want to continue to serve our country in the Senate," he says in the email, sent Tuesday night and which also serves as a pitch for campaign cash.

This is absolutely ridiculous, and I'm not even thinking about the fact that should he win in 2010, the aged senator would be in his eighties once his sixth term expired. Surely, the people of Arizona can do better than this decrepitudinous fool. (Of course, the same can be said about the followers of a certain eastern college football team.)

No, the idiocy is that Senator Septuagenarian believes that by serving for six more years he'll be helping to solve "the financial crisis that many American families are facing" even though he voted against a plan that would help out those very families he's ostensibly so concerned about.

That's not legislative acumen we can believe in.