Via the New York Times' blog "The Caucus."
Tonight, John McCain said that his party was elected to change Washington, but that they let Washington change them. He’s right. He admonished the ‘old, do-nothing crowd’ in Washington, but ignored the fact that he’s been part of that crowd for twenty-six years, opposing solutions on health care, energy, and education.
He talked about bipartisanship, but didn’t mention that he’s been a Bush partisan 90 percent of the time, that he’s run a Karl Rove campaign, and that he wants to continue this President’s disastrous economic and foreign policies for another four years. With John McCain, it’s more of the same."
It cuts right through the fantasy the McCain GOP worked so hard to create over the last few days. He is not "divorcing" the party. He's the man who voted over 90% of the time with George W. Bush. He is not a Maverick, he's a sidekick. You can't claim to be an enemy of the oil companies when your only solution to the climate crisis is to pay them off.
Excellent turnaround time on the part of the Obama-Biden camp.