Plus an even more substantial motive McCain just cannot manage to permit the Shrub "pull him down to his level" (this in the phrase of the CBS cameraman, a Louisianan who’s really a little bit shorter than the regular tech and so moreover all his other gear has to lug a very little aluminum stepladder all over to stand on with his digicam through scrums, which decreases his mobility but is compensated for by what the other techs agree is an.