McCain on MtP: The death of a Maverick.

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Sun, 04/02/2006 - 1:00pm — hekebolos

So there I was, about to blog on McCain's pathetic pandering to the neocon and theocon agenda on Tim Russert's Meet the Press this morning--when I saw that Georgia10 over at Daily Kos already beat me to it.

I really don't have much to add to her review--on McCain, at any rate. The only commentary I really can make is that the Republican Party is in a huge amount of trouble if it uses the threat of withholding institutional support to force candidates to toe the wildly unpopular Bush/Falwell line.

There's no way in hell McCain actually believes what he said on MtP. He doesn't even look comfortable saying it, but he believes he'll never win the Presidency if he doesn't. What he doesn't realize is--he won't win the Presidency anyway.

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