Politico's Mike Allen seems to have bought into the idea that John McCain has become so angry and grumpy because he's been forced by Barack Obama's high poll numbers to run a sleazy, dishonest campaign. But sleazy and dishonest isn't the real John McCain. So he's grumpy about it.

But isn't the more straightforward explanation that McCain is angry and grumpy because all the elite pundits who used to fawn over him now think he's a dishonest sleaze?

The truth hurts.