Isn’t the New York Times really stretching it by attributing an email message to John McCain today?

“I returned to the Senate with greater influence than before I ran, and I used that influence to work with senators on both sides of the aisle,” Mr. McCain said in an e-mail message. “I don’t believe in hoarding political capital just for the sake of possessing it.”

Remember this is John “It’s a Google” McCain, who has admitted that aides “go on [the Internet] for me. I will have that down fairly soon, getting on myself.” It’s generally implausible that any email from a politician to a reporter isn’t at least vetted by a press staffer, but in McCain’s case there’s almost no question that he did not write the email.