[rhombus]

Should he triumph in the primaries, we can expect this more appealing John McCain to come roaring back.

That's a mighty big "should". Unless the GOP stupidly lets Democrat and moderates vote (and maybe illegals too), I just don't see it happening.

[Ikemeister]

McCain can't be trusted. He's a political Chameleon who, in the end, will have everyone hating him.

[RabidBartender]

""The bottom line is that Mr McCain isn't a moderate; he's a man of the hard right," Paul Krugman, the economist, wrote recently in The New York Times."

How in the world did Krugman ever get a job in journalism? Practically every article I have seen of his has not only been wrong, but 'how-in-creation-can-someone-be-this-clueless' wrong. McCain to the hard right is like silver to a werewolf (sorry, I saw Christina Ricci in Cursed last night). I dare say that Maureen Dowd has more credibility than this Krugman hack.

And the NY Times slides even further into the abyss. Anyone new from the paper resigning this week?

[Mind-numbed Robot]

But this is merely a stratagem for winning a Republican presidential primary.

He is a panderer.

Discount his repositioning a bit and Mr McCain looks like the same unconventional character who emerged during the Clinton years: a social progressive, a fiscal conservative and a military hawk.

How does that square with the campaign finance law and the immigration bill he and Kennedy put together? Is that socially progressive? Fiscally conservative? Military hawk?

Oh well, we are talking about Krugman so looking for logic is futile.

[dirtboy]

Awaiting the return of Bull Moose

Except that, in the case of McCain, it's not Bull Moose, it's Bull Shiite...