After the latest decimation of German Social Democracy as we (which means you) know (or knew) it, SPD chancellor candidate Frank-Walter Steinmeier made a pretty sorry showing on the German TV politico-talk show Anne Will last night. He looked so, well, so lonely.

Yesterday’s EU election slug fest (in more ways than one) left the German SPD at a heart-warming all-time low of 20.8 percent of the vote. And so what if only 43% of the Europe-weary electorate even bothered to turn up? It’s the thought that counts.

Mr. Steinmeier must certainly being doing a lot of thinking about things these days at any rate. Things like: What was I thinking of or how did I get here or how the hell do I get out of here again? You know, thoughts like that.

„Ich bin Kanzlerkandidat der SPD, der Kanzler werden will.“