Mccain continues nosedive toward conformity

[mburbank]

I agree that this is the plan for getting back at Bush and becoming President. It's not a bad one, either. But it has all the earmarks of classical tragedy.

Hero makes apparent major personal ethical alterations. Hero brings people into tent to piss out, so they won't piss in. Hero, now surrounded by pissers becomes slowly divorced from who he truly is. Hero comes to rue what his voctory has cost him, but it's too late.

I undrstand what he's doing, but it's a hell of a tightrope.

Also, his appeal to me, since politically I can't agree with him, is his seeming honesty. That's what makes him a person I feel that as a President I would not agree with, but could respect. If he sacrafices that for respectability with the Falwell crowd (and who after that, the Norquist crowd, the Bush dynasty?) ... Well, it's not like I'd vote for him anyway. But I think he counts on the Reagan Democrats. And ore than that, I honestly feel like he's brutally crushing a fundamental part of who he is. He' s chosen party loyalty over what he knows to be true and the possability for victory over honesty.