Defending the Indefensible.

Not a lot of conservatives want to step into the breach for McCain on the Zapatero gaffe. Totally understandable! Althouse gives it her best shot:

There's not as easy an explanation for why McCain is unresponsive about Spain initially, but goes back to the previous subject of Latin America and goes on about Mexico. It's impossible to believe that McCain doesn't know where Spain is. But it is possible that he didn't recognize the name Zapatero or doesn't know enough about the country to want to say anything coherent about it. It seems more likely that he was getting tired of the interview or finding the interviewer a little hard to understand, and he was just trying to get to the end and it showed.

Fail. She may as well have said McCain needed a nap.