That Giant Sucking Sound You Hear....

...is John McCain's presidential ambitions swirling the drain, going down, down, down. McCain was on Meet the Press today, and it was actually quite something to see The Journalist Formerly Known As Tim Russert reclaim his title. He asked follow up questions, and turned on the heat under McCain's seat. The questions about McCain's FLIP FLOP on the religious right, his previous comments criticizing Jerry Falwell, all were asked. It's the answers that prove interesting. It's painfully obvious that McCain wants Bush's donor list to be given only to him, so McCain has his lips super-glued to Bush's behind. And he did not disappoint. McCain will be speaking at Liberty University, Falwell's private school for intelligent designers. McCain essentially retracted every biting thing he's ever said about Falwell, Bush, and the religious right. All this to obtain a donor list. A donor list of people who will no doubt see through McCain's blatant pandering (worked well for GWB's father, right?) to the religious right. It will also have the added benefit of turning off the independent-minded voters who up until now have not seen the Real McCain. His jump to the hard right will serve to alienate one faction of voters that he's spent so many years trying to stroke, and the other that he suddenly loves. Brilliant advisers he has.