From the Department of "We'll See How Long This Lasts"

Villager of Villagers Dana Milbank pines for The Old John McCain™. Not as in age, as in yoostahbee.

But even this ...

Before writing this column, I reached out to many of McCain's closest aides from the 2000 campaign to see whether they thought there still was such a man inside McCain. Most of them begged off, some saying they had lost contact with him or become estranged.

... doesn't stop him from closing thus:

I may be the last one who still holds some hope that McCain, long before he draws his last breath, may yet rejoin the fight.

[Insert Lucy and football reference here.]

(h/t: Atrios)

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