Excuse me for indulging my lingering taste for conspiracy-theory, but isn’t this interesting?

It seems to me that birthday-man Senator McCain has accomplished some rather momentous things today (conspiracy theory follows):

1) He has not only redefined “feminism” in our country, he has hijacked the mainstream for the Republican ticket;

2) He has anchored his administration to an aggressively anti-pork and anti-corruption stance, something only half-believable until now, by signing up the [Alaskan Republican] who toppled the worst porkers: Bridge to Nowhere Alaskan Republicans.

3) He has put service — grass-roots and public service — at the heart of his message about America. This is going to reinvigorate grass roots community life and will no doubt energize the Repubican turnout, as a consequence.

4) He has secured the high ground in the fossil fuel debate by signing up the single most aggressive promoter of continental gas production and pipelines, Governor Sarah Palin.

Why, this is the BIG SHOW. Who needs next week’s convention? Right? Now for the conspiracy fun.

McCain has this week seriously disrupted the Dem’s Big Show, just by being a class act, too. Ergo, the Dem’s will plan payback. Today, too, we have received gobs of gooey neo-Czarist grumbling that McCain is bout to “get his” comeuppance at or after the convention. Oooh… Russkie black ops… AND Obamanian ops of no discernible hue…shudder…

NOT! Sorry guys, John McCain, aviator, may have learned a little something from John Boyd, another aviator. Certainly the good Senator seems to have gotten into Obama’s OODA loop so far he’s toying with him. [see Wikipedia on "OODA Loop"]

Personally, I feel much better about many things today.