McCain: Not Old, Just Lost…

by Jane Hamsher [courtesy of Firedoglake]

Mark Salter of the McCain campaign is all afluster that use of the term "losing his bearings" by Barack Obama is an ageist insult against his candidate.

Commenter cinnamonape:

Now we know why McCain almost flunked out of Annapolis. How can a third-generation Navy man not know that this is a NAVAL TERM that means an individual has lost sight of their navigational standards. It has nothing to do with AGE…Navy men and those that used this slogan were ALWAYS referring to people who had become sidetracked away from their presumed course. Young captains could “lose their bearings” as well as old ones.

Sad that McCain doesn’t even know Naval Terminology!

Would he rather we use the term "out of touch?" Okay, happy to oblige.