Surprise! McCain Does A 180

Rarely does a week go by that we don't learn of another issue on which John McCain now takes a diametrically different position than he did when the other was politically advantageous. Now the Jed Report has found a video of an interview Larry King did with John McCain in January, 2001:

http://www.jedreport.com/2008/08/judgment-mccain.html

That's right. McCain is asked "if you were President, elected President, would Rumsfeld and Powell be on your team, too?" The Arizona Senator responded "oh, yes, and Cheney." He added "I think this is the strongest team.... as far as national security, that we've ever had."

On February 19, 2007 McCain told over 800 people at a retirement community in South Carolina "I think that Donald Rumsfeld will go down in history as one of the worst secretaries of defense in history." In an interview with Politico the previous month, McCain had charged" the president listened too much to the Vice President . . . Of course, the president bears the ultimate responsibility, but he was very badly served by both the Vice President and, most of all, the Secretary of Defense."

I guess that's what it means to be a "maverick."