Thursday, February 24, 2011

Mean Maverick McCain is a conservative! This is news?!?

Apparently in the Beltway Village, it is: Reid Wilson, McCain's Shift Makes Him Senate's Most Conservative National Journal Hotline On-Call 02/24/2011.

But our Pod Pundits will still find a way to call him a straight-talkin' Maverick, I'm sure!

To give you an idea of how the political spectrum looks through Village eyes, Wilson writes of Barack Obama circa 2006, "Then-Sen. Barack Obama, meanwhile, began his campaign at the far left end of the political spectrum."

From 2008, the bold Maverick McCain and his best bud of those days:



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