McSame in more ways than one!

By Ron Beasley

John McCain has much in common with the Bush Family.  Policy is one but the fact that he is not only out of touch with the American people but proud of it is another.  We have this from James Joyner.

In a recent interview with the Orange County Register’s Martin Wisckol, John McCain said that, not only doesn’t he know how much gas costs, it doesn’t matter.

Well he may find that it does matter but probably not.  John Cole says it all:

In the past, this is the sort of thing that has helped to put away candidates- we all remember the silly assertion that George Bush was surprised by a grocery scanner or Giuliani didn’t know the cost of a loaf of bread. While false, the story did help the Clinton team portray him as out of touch and unaware of what people were going through economically. The real question is whether or not the media will dump their mancrush to savage McMavericky straight talk over his lack of awareness the way they would if this were, well, anyone else.

Yes, if Obama had said it you would hear about nothing else on the Sunday talking heads shows and it would be on the front page of all the major papers.  But St John gets a pass.

That said, there are only so many stupid things you can say and get away with it and this doesn't help:

Mrs. McCain, San Diego County Would Like a Word

When you're poor, it can be hard to pay the bills. When you're rich, it's hard to keep track of all the bills that need paying. It's a lesson Cindy McCain learned the hard way when NEWSWEEK raised questions about an overdue property-tax bill on a La Jolla, Calif., property owned by a trust that she oversees. Mrs. McCain is a beer heiress with an estimated $100 million fortune and, along with her husband, she owns at least seven properties, including condos in California and Arizona.

Now this all may well be innocent but politicians don't get to make innocent mistakes.  If McCain can't find people to keep his own finances is order why should he be trusted to keep the fiances of the nation in order.

James Joyner sums up the importance of the gas gaff:

I get that McCain is sheltered from many of the mundane details of everyday life because of his position. It wouldn’t bother me in the least if he didn’t know how to operate a modern gas pump. Nor would I expect him to know the price with the specificity that those of us who pump it regularly do. But, given the amazing amount of attention this issue has gotten in recent months — so much so that he’s pandering about “gas tax holidays” and the like — it’s not unreasonable to expect him to answer with something like, “It’s been so long since I pumped my own gas that I don’t remember what it cost. But I do know that it’s now over $4 a gallon and people are pissed.”

Comments

[Rudi]

McSame may also share the pathological need to "one up" his father like W the shrubber. CIC is overload to a couple of stinking Admirals.