Sellout

I attended a friend's wedding over the weekend. I got into an interesting discussion with a friend about the election and I made the point that the McCain running in 2000 at least held principled stands on issues, but since then he has had to sellout out the to religious right and has changed on so many positions (abortion, immigration, torture, tax cuts for the wealthy, etc).

Frank Rich made this point in his column yesterday...

McCain is now the man of James Dobson and Tony Perkins. The “no surrender” warrior surrendered to the agents of intolerance not just by dumping his pal for Palin but by moving so far to the right on abortion that even Cindy McCain seemed unaware of his radical shift when being interviewed by Katie Couric last week.

That ideological sellout, unfortunately, was not the worst leadership trait the last-minute vice presidential pick revealed about McCain. His speed-dating of Palin reaffirmed a more dangerous personality tic that has dogged his entire career. His decision-making process is impetuous and, in its Bush-like preference for gut instinct over facts, potentially reckless.