smartpolitics

John McCain is all over the place. He’s flipping, he’s flopping… he’s out of control. The Straight Talk Express has clearly derailed. The John McCain of 2008 would be unrecognizable to the John McCain of 2000.

For some reason, John McCain is advertising himself as running to fill George W. Bush’s third term.

There are essentially two kinds of politicians: the Insider and the Outsider.

Yet in every election cycle, there is another set of possibilities for a politician: the Reformer or the Protector, the Common Man or the Elitist.

Inevitably, the two-party system results in one candidate falling in place behind three of the six options and the other candidate being forced to choose the opposite three.

(cont. tomorrow)

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