Originally Posted By: Lucius Prometheus Vorenus
[...It's like when McCain swung from being centric to Rightwing-extreme...


What, exactly, has he done that's "Rightwing-extreme, Promod? Other than running against Obama, of course?

McCain gave the commencement address at Liberty University, making nice with "agent of intolerance" Jerry Falwell -- but also gave the exact same speech at the far-left New School for Social Research. That seems pretty moderate: reaching out to both the far left and far right and asking for tolerance from both.

But there was no major shift in either his policies or his rhetoric that accompanied his trip to Liberty. This is like saying that Obama turned into a right-wing Christianist by virtue of appearing at Rick Warren's Church, an argument no one would take seriously.