Monday, August 18, 2008

QOTD: Rebel Without a Cause Edition

They're playing the mavericky mindreader game over at The Corner:

No One Is Safe [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

In the last few days, John McCain has both assured pro-choicers that he will not have a veep litmus test (in the Steve Hayes interview) and assured pro-lifers that he will be a pro-life president (at Saddelback). That seems to put him in exactly the position a man who prides himself on being a "maverick" would want to be: poised to do whatever he wants with the vice-presidential slot.
Obscurity and unpredictability -- what more could one want in a preznit?