John McCain: from "maverick" to angry rightwing demagogue in two months.

The thing about McCain is that it REALLY pisses him off when he doesn't get his way. McCain thinks it's his destiny to be president, and that Barack Obama is stealing that destiny from him. McCain's anger is not Bush's childish petulance when there's too much ketchup on his lunch-time cheeseburger: it's the full-on, murderous rage of a guy who's seriously damaged and full of hate, but has been mostly holding it in (for years) for the sake of appearances. McCain's clearly losing the political argument on the merits (or lack thereof) of his record and his current positions on the issues: people don't want more tax cuts for the rich, they don't want to be taxed on their healthcare, they don't want war with Iran, and they don't believe that deregulation is the answer to every problem. So, he has no choice, I guess, other than to run a late-stage Hillary-style campaign of race-baiting and lame personal attacks. Didn't work for Hillary, and it ain't working for McCain. In fact, the media appear to have taken notice, finally, of the enormous disconnect between the campaign McCain's currently running and all of his lofty rhetoric about "honor" and putting "country first." the voters are getting it too, thank God, as are a number of long-time Republican strategists: as McCain goes down in flames, he takes down-ticket Republicans with him. Obama by a landslide, as Ed Rollins said, and +10 seats in the Senate for the Democrats (+20 in the House). So, I have just one thing to say to John McCain: way to end your political career, asshole.

McCain was a douchebag before he was a POW, and he was one after. When the Keating 5 scandal hit, he was more successful than most at reinventing himself as a maverick and someone willing to take on corruption in government even though the bills he sponsored or supported were mainly toothless. He tried to play the game with that persona in 2000 and fell victim to his own party's dirty tricks. This time around, he can't embrace everything he was against in 2000 because he knows it's his last chance to be president, and it's not working with the religious conservatives he pissed off in 2000. Now that things aren't going his way, and worse, Obama is stealing his celebrity status (which pisses him off to no end), his true nature - an angry jerk who thinks he's better than everyone else - is finally making an appearance.

TlalocW

he was just packaging himself as "maverick" and now his true self is glass incased.