McCain's Long Arming of POTUS/VPOTUS

(By Shannen Coffin/National Review Online) - The problem I have had with John McCain through most of his more recent career is that his idea of being a maverick is simply joining with his political adversaries to tell his own supporters to go to hell — and I'm not talking about the Hilton family here. His support for the Iraq surge is one notable exception where he has been more of a leader against popular opinion for what is right, rather than a leader of a mob against his own base (see, e.g., McCain-Feingold, detainee policy, etc.). But if last week was a good week for McCain's press strategy in that it drew the spotlight on his opponent (while perhaps eliciting a wickedly funny response from Paris), this week has begun with a clang.