McCain commented on the Supreme Court gun ruling today, and neglected to mention that he voted for two of the justices who tried to take these gun rights from us.  Not only that, he used the fact he supported Ginsberg and Breyer as a selling point when he met privately with a group of Hillary supporters.  He used plenty of solemn-sounding rhetoric too.

Yes, in yet more brilliant tactical waffling, McCain affirmed that he was glad we had retained our gun rights, right along with the free speech rights he attacked with McCain-Feingold.  His brilliant strategy will insure that the wishful thinking of ordinary supporters will be in full swing enough to get him elected, and then he can nominate the Ginsburgs and Breyers he loves so much to replace the future Supreme Court retirees.

It’s good to see that the maverick paradigm is starting to spread.

Chris Cannon, an incumbent congressman from Utah, shared the Master Maverick’s open-borders sentiment.  As a result, he received his due share of maverick support, and lost to Jason Chaffetz in a primary challenge.

This is excellent news.  Now, one more maverick congressman has more time on his hands to sing the Master Maverick’s maverick praises.  Maybe he’ll even be in McCain’s cabinet.  Or his dresser drawer.  Or he may have earned the honor of being put in his closet.  Just so long as he’s some place McCain doesn’t have to hear him whine while he pursues his own interests, it’ll all be good.

I can’t blame him, for certain. I mean, who wouldn’t want to be like the Master Maverick?  Moreover, who wouldn’t want to share in his penchant for using the demagogury and marginalization that got him this far?

In this particular instance, he’s talking about the candidacy of Bob Barr (who doesn’t exist, by the way).  His quote is “No reasonable conservative is going to vote for anyone but McCain”.  This means that even Gingrich is using demagogics and marginalization tactics, proving that with the right maverick leadership, McCain can turn anyone into his kind of fellow Democrat.

Don’t even get me started about singing the praises of this article’s writer.  You’d think the other 65% of the Republican party or so that went out of their way to vote against McCain was the just a tiny handful of “some die-hard conservatives”. Next thing you know, their own leaders will be calling them racist, sexist, bigoted homophobes.  I’m still waiting for his future vice-president to sing the praises of this tactical waffler’s deeply held beliefs before he suggests that we should let all of God’s children enter this country illegally and suck us dry.

It’s a beautiful day for the maverick paradigm.