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McCain Discovers Yet Another Pandering Target

Thanks to one of my regular readers, I was alerted to this Nation article about McCain’s trouble with the folks back in Arizona.  Abiding conservative loathing of McCain, especially over his betrayals on immigration, was not news to me, but the story does help convey just how unbalanced and egomaniacal McCain is–just another reason why every […]

Thanks to one of my regular readers, I was alerted to this Nation article about McCain’s trouble with the folks back in Arizona.  Abiding conservative loathing of McCain, especially over his betrayals on immigration, was not news to me, but the story does help convey just how unbalanced and egomaniacal McCain is–just another reason why every sane person should hope and pray for his defeat in the primaries.  What I didn’t know about was this little item mentioned in the story:

His makeover continues on February 23, when he is scheduled to speak before the Discovery Institute, the right-wing think tank that has attempted to introduce into public school biology classes the teaching of Intelligent Design.

This is embarrassing.  Are we now going to be treated to quadrennial rituals where presidential hopefuls make the trek to Seattle to pander to the non-scientific scientists of ID?  Will we be treated to McCain holding forth on irreducible complexity in the same snooze-inducing fashion with which he put the Federalist Societ members to sleep with his Civics 101 lecture on checks and balances?  Whoever talked McCain into doing this (I guarantee it wasn’t his idea!) is doing the man no favours.  It is one thing to be a religious conservative and feel some (misguided) obligation to encourage the absurdity of introducing ID into biology class, but for McCain to go there he might as well be carrying a big, flashing sign saying, “I will say and do whatever it takes to con you people into supporting me.”  It does more damage to his credibility with the very voters he is obviously desperate to win over than if he said nothing about ID.  No one really thinks that McCain, who is a fairly secular Republican, actually cares about or believes in Intelligent Design theory.  Even if he is as dim as his record at the Naval Academy would suggest, he couldn’t be so gullible as to fall for this stuff, could he?

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