This is a fairly devastating use of Senator John McCain’s own words against him. I suspect that you will see a lot more like this during the fall election brawl.

It was put together by an online film maker who calls himself “brave new films.” Once again, the web guys are a step ahead of the old “pros.” McCain is lucky this isn’t coming from the Obama campaign (or is it?).

It would be smart for McCain’s inner circle to devise a way to defuse these attacks, before those attacks harden into the conventional wisdom. Even smarter would be to develop a network of surrogates to defend the GOP’s presumtive nominee on youtube.com and other sites.

If the campaign waits until September, it will have waited too long. It will earn the headline that the New Yorker appended to George Packer’s excellent article this week: “Is the GOP brain dead?”

These days, the question mark is pure charity.