Could Have Been a Contender

As you can see, John McCain, totemistic Mini-Me of both the left and the right, is none too pleased about being Bush's prop when King George gets desperate enough to actually speak to the press. On the CNN video, McCain had the slightly queasy look of someone forced into making contact with the sufferer of a particularly gruesome disease (such as leprosy).

Just tell it straight, John, we'll understand.