Winning is out of the question for McCain now. He lost all three debates and,in the course of a few months, became something of a joke to most Americans. Pretty amazing for the American hero.

No matter what happens now, he goes down as one of those marginal figures in our political history who was discredited, lost, and disappeared.

On the stage it looked like a President and the Richard Dreyfus character, a gnarly device to make a President look even more Presidential.