By that logic, McCain should also "embrace" socialized medicine, higher taxes, surrender in Iraq, restrictions on unapproved political speech, and all the rest of the leftist programme. Of course, in addition to removing these disastrous plans as "issues for the democrats," such tactics also remove any remaining incentive for conservatives to support him.
Why not try telling the truth? Global warming is a leftist scare scam designed to terrify the public into accepting massive new socialist wealth transfers and political controls. In fact, the planet has been cooling since 1998, refuting the models upon which the warming theories rely, and that cooling trend is now sharply accelerating. A real leader would marshall the evidence to educate the public rather than pandering and ceding ground to the liars.
When the majority of Americans have been brainwashed into thinking that Global Warming is real and probably man-made, it becomes a losing topic to argue otherwise.
Imagine in the first debate a question for senator McCain that goes like this, “The latest Newsweek poll reveals that most Americans believe that Global Warming is a real problem and that the US isn’t doing enough to solve the problem. What is your solution?”
The good news is that McCain has effectively neutralized this issue. It probably won’t come up and if it does McCain will be ready with an answer that will appeal to the brainwashed independants.
Sometimes in baseball, a team will give up an out in order to score a run.
McCain is willing to ‘give up an out’ in order to get the conversation back to topics where he scores with the American people: National security, taxes/economy, backed by a lifetime of service/experiance.