Plus an even bigger cause McCain simply cannot manage to allow the Shrub "pull him down to his level" (this in the phrase of the CBS cameraman, a Louisianan who’s quite a bit shorter than the regular tech and so besides all his other tools has to lug a tiny aluminum stepladder all around to stand on with his digital camera through scrums, which decreases his mobility but is compensated for by what the other techs concur is an virtually occult.