From: Randall Parker 

In <38c98dea{at}w3.nls.net>, the sagacious richhong{at}hawksci.com Richard
Hong perspicated:
> The whole McCain thing has me flummoxed.  Two years ago, any sane man would
> have pegged McCain as more conservative than Bush.

But he isn't principled in his conservatism. It doesn't come from a
philosophical model. I don't quite know how to state it. But read these two
articles:
   http://www.reason.com/0004/co.vp.the.html
   http://www.politicalwag.com/servlet/column?columnid=4

>Heck, McCain is more of
> a "true believer" on abortion than Bush, as one example.

But Bush is more of a true believer on limited government.

> McCain's one
> maverick streak is this campaign finance reform thing, and I personally
> believe that this was an unprincipled reaction by McCain to his inclusion in
> the "Keating Five".

Unprincipled? Again, see the two articles above. His principles were at
work but those principles to not make him predictably conservative or
libertarian.

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