A Follower, Not A Leader

Actually, the straight-talking truth is that he was never a leader. Shooting off the mouth is not leadership. His role as part of the so-called Keating Five is far more instructive. Sim., his current wife and father-in-law's influence.

But all that, those are facts.

Regrettably, more important is what the media -- his lovers -- say.

Holy crap! Look at this!

Now that he is the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, however, McCain is marching straight down the party line. The economic package he has laid out embraces many of the tax policies he once decried: extending Bush's tax cuts he voted against, offering investment tax breaks he once believed would have little economic benefit and granting the long-held wishes of tax lobbyists he has often mocked.

McCain's concerns -- about budget deficits, unanticipated defense costs, an Iraq war that would be longer and more costly than advertised -- have proved eerily prescient, usually a plus for politicians who are quick to say they were right when others were wrong. Yet McCain appears determined to leave such predictions behind.

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