Let’s just start with the news first.  McCain made some remarks about Carter’s accusations of racism against town hall protesters.  He calmly stated that Carter deserved his place as the worst President in history, if not simply the 20th century.

I say “made some remarks” and “calmly stated” because that’s what it was.  McCain’s commentary deserves no stronger a description.  It was a statement that may as well have been prepared in advance and read from a note sheet as a matter of course.  In other words, typical of His Maverickness.

Gateway Pundit has the sound bite if you’d like to hear it and decide for yourself.  As a proper maverick supporter of His Maverickness, there’s no way on Earth the video would appear on this site.  It’s way too flattering to McCain, and frankly not worth posting because it demostrates nothing real about him.

Seriously, are we supposed to be impressed now that he’s going through the motions of standing up to defend us?  Are we now supposed to ignore the fact that for both terms of the Bush administration, he was for all intents and purposes a mislabeled Democrat?  Are the years he ran roughshod over conservatives in a misguided attempt to advance his own ambitions and bask in puff press supposed to magically disappear from our memories?  Is his desperation to get re-elected in 2010 with all of this conspicuous conservatism he doesn’t mean not supposed to be transparent?

I’d tell him to give it up, but it’s fun to watch.  The only reason he’d even conceive of doing this is because he thinks he’s in real trouble.  Could it be because of his primary opponent, Chris Simcox, or the two consecutive RINO purges in 2006 and 2008?  May he be right.