He's not fooling anybody

John McCain were married to the conservative wing of the party, he'd be considered a serial adulterer. He's been doing his best to convince his jilted better half that he's been faithful all along, but few are buying it.

Some apologists do a wonderful job telling us McCain is the conservative standard-bearer this primary season. Phil Gramm's WSJ op-ed might have convinced me had I not watched the news over the last six years. McCain took every opportunity to undermine President Bush on any subject. Never forget that he voted against Bush's 2001 tax cut. Never forget McCain-Feingold, or the selling out of Don Rumsfeld.

But just in case you needed another reason, just as the science of global warming has started to face the scrutiny it deserves, McCain declares the case closed, and that Bush has been bungling it for years:

"This administration's record on global warming is terrible," McCain said. "I've held hearings for years and got no cooperation from the administration on this issue."

"The debate on climate change should be over," McCain said. "California's actions ... send a message to Washington that they expect us to act at the federal level.

Well congratulations to the Senator. He's been able to distance himself from Bush and suck up to the environmentalists. That will get him some votes. But not my vote.

To paraphrase Michael Corleone, don't tell us you're conservative, Senator, because it insults our intelligence.