Yeah. I saw that story in that other thread.

One of the conservative syndicated columnists published an interesting piece this morning to the effect that McCain had started his campaign as a fairly genuine "maverick" and bipartisan type, which is basically true as far as I can see (e.g., co-sponsoring some generally progressive legilation with Feingold, Kennedy, etc.), but that IT WASN"T WORKING in the GOP primaries. Now that he's abandoned his previous personality and taken up the Karl Rove style, he is polling much better.

Sad but true.

By the way, speaking of "embellishing his stories," did you catch the rfecent bit about his pro-football reference? It's been fairly well-known for many years that, when pressed by the North Viets to give up the names of some US military personnel, he recited the roster of one of the great Green Bay Packer championship teams. At a recent campaign appearance in western Pennsylvania, he told the story, but twisted it a bit to say that ballplayers he named were Pittsburgh Steelers. Seems that he's come around to the well-established rightist strategy that lying is almost always better than the truth.