Weeks back, Sen. McCain kept confusing folks with talk of the “Soviet Union” and “Czechoslovakia” (neither of which exist anymore after Communism’s fall led to their break-ups). Reporters barely noticed, let alone reported on it.

Yesterday, he confused Spain with its 19th century territory, Mexico, while speaking with a Spanish reporter about the President of Spain. John at AmericBlog tries to find a logical explanation: “A reader [at Josh Marshall's TPM] suggested something that Josh had already considered, that perhaps McCain thought the reporter was talking about the Zapatistas in Mexico, the guerilla group. But that’s not possible as the reporter clearly said she was talking about Spain and Spain’s leader, Zapatero.” (emphasis added)

This leads one to wonder what would happen during the first few weeks of a McCain presidency…

Dateline: February, 2009 –

When asked why he opened the “football” and pushed the red button multiple times, destroying most of Russia and half of China in nuclear annihilation and launching World War III, Pres. McCain told the press pool gathered in the White House’s underground nuke-proof bunker that he was just trying to flip channels during halftime of the Super Bowl because he was bored watching the same Budweiser Clydesdale commercial for the fourth time. What’s left of Washington, DC, was still burning above.

Vice President Palin, speaking through a Naval officer using Morse Code from her undisclosed location, released a brief statement: “Heckuvajob, Johnny”. She is thought to be sequestered either in the Mountain West near NORAD or perhaps in Alaska in an ANWR oil rig.

Our current Republican president once choked on pretzels while watching football in the West Wing… Think about it.

Lord, Help Us.

(h/t ArchPundit)