Do we? Does everyone know about Keating? Does everyone know that beyond campaign finance reform and the environment, McCain is about as much a maverick as John Boehner?

Yes, he may have been against Bush’s tax cuts at one point, but now he is for them. He may have taken a principled stand against water boarding, but then he voted against banning it.

The man’s maverick credentials are slipping out from underneath him every minute that he spends courting a dysfunctional, arrogant, unrealistic, and egotistical base whose ideology is so self-centered that they’d rather lose than have a guy who supported campaign finance reform.