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Democrats have begun to worry that if the Clinton-Obama nomination contest lasts till the Democratic convention at the end of August, the survivor will limp into the McCain battle with a badly depleted campaign war-chest.

What they do not realize, of course, is that McCain too will have a badly depleted campaign war-chest. Because he has been diverting a significant proportion of the money he has raised to unconventional non-campaign uses. A parallel intelligence-gathering operation, for example. And we’re not talking political intelligence or dirty tricks either:

He said he believed Iran was still seeking to acquire the means to develop a nuclear weapon, although a recent National Intelligence Estimate had suggested otherwise.

A reasonable and prudent man, a man with McCain’s experience and expertise in matters of national security, would hardly dismiss the carefully considered consensus of the nation’s intelligence apparatus without probable cause, would he? He must have a parallel intelligence-gathering operation. Because he wouldn’t just dismiss our intelligence agencies on a whim, and say that I, John McCain, know better than those effing c**ksuckers (it can’t be helped, he talks like that) because I used to be a Navy pilot, and then, of course, I was a prisoner of war in Vietnam, and there’s footage of me giving up my name, rank and serial number and nothing else, and did I tell you about my father and his father before him? I did? Then how about my distant ancestor who served on General Washington’s staff? (It’s not a proud military tradition in the family, it’s his ruddy “martial heritage”, if you please.)