WHY McCAIN CAN'T WIN

Even as John McCain was desperately trying to reach out to red-meat right-wing GOP primary voters by holding a pressconference after his Iraq-is-so-getting-better photo op, he was insulting Republican voters' heroes. Check out what he says in the first video posted here by Raw Story, starting at 1:05:

...and I'm not saying that "the mission is accomplished" or "last throes" or "a few dead-enders," but what we don't read about every day and what is new since the surge began is a lot of the good news....

Good grief -- he's insulting Bush, Cheney and Rummy! He really doesn't get it -- red-meat GOPers still think those guys were right.