Bowing to the King

Fineman: Maverick McCain Changes Tactics - Newsweek Politics - MSNBC.com

OK, Bush is struggling, but he's still got a core of ridiculously wealthy and ridiculously uninformed Repugnants who will stick with him no matter how imcompetent he is. (To the monied, he gave more of the same. To the uninformed, he just has to lie and look as stupid as they are.) With all the money and stupidity, the two things the modern GOP is built on, still sticking with Bush, he is the King. The nomination goes through him. He whom Bush knights gets the money, the stupidity, and the nomination all in one. That's what McCain wants more than anything, so he's going to go after it by kissing the ring--and probably anything else he can get his lips on.

McCain probably won't get the nod no matter how much he kisses up, as Mr. Fineman points out in the article. You cross Bush once, you're an enemy forever. That's the way it is with Bush. He is the King, after all.

What a sad end to McCain's career. Knowing what we know now, anyone in his or her right mind would have picked McCain over Bush five years ago. What McCain knows, though, is that it's not those in their right mind that matter when you're a Republican these days.