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The issue was painfully simple. So simple that even a befuddled 71 year-old man, who frequently gets confused about who’s fighting whom in Iraq, and who’s aiding and abetting whom, couldn’t possibly fail to understand it. Or couldn’t possibly hope to pretend that he hadn’t understood it. But John McCain has done the impossible before, especially when it comes to being impossibly stupid.

If a woman does the exact same job as a man, and does it equally well, does she or does she not have a right to receive the same pay?

When McCain looked into what he’s pleased to call his heart, the answer he found was: “Nope!”

Apparently, in what passes for McCain’s mind, if a woman is receiving less pay than men for doing the same work, then clearly she deserves to be paid more. And the way for her to get more pay is to get more education and training so that she can get a higher paying job. In which she will once again be paid less than men for doing the same work equally well.

Somehow, it being “hard for them to leave their families when they don’t have somebody to take care of them” also has something to do with why McCain cannot, in good conscience, support equal pay for women (one more time: for the same work). And, apparently, half the reason why women in America don’t (or can’t, or shouldn’t) get the same pay for the same work is that women in rural eastern Kentucky have chosen not to go into the mining industry.

His own words. That’s what he actually said.

I don’t care what the polls say. Half the country cannot possibly want this man to be president. Probably not even an under-assistant dogcatcher when they’ve had time to think about it.

I have $20 which says that, regardless of what the polls say now, in November McCain will be absolutely crushed by whoever the Democratic nominee turns out to be. Even if the nomination battle lasts till the convention.