There's something magical about the number three.
In hockey, it's a hat trick.
In baseball, you get three outs.
In marriage, the third one's supposed to last best.
In politics, if you make three gaffes on international affairs and geography, you ought to be disqualified from leading any country, ever.
And that's where McCain is now.
Let's review.
In February of 2007, at a Town Hall Meeting in Des Moines, Iowa, McCain referred to "President Putin of Germany giving one of the old Cold-War-style speeches as he adddressed a conference there." Behold:
And then, in July, while pooh-poohing the Afghanistan problem on Good Morning America, he worried mightily about the situation on the Iraq-Pakistan border (check your maps):
And now we have McCain failing vainly, unexplained, on Spain. The only thing surprising about this is that there are people in the media and the blogosphere seriously trying to defend him, to suggest that he knew exactly what he was talking about. Silly liberals!
Too bad you can't see Russia from Arizona. Now then he'd have something going for him on the foreign policy front.
By George, I think he's had it.