This is -- and is not -- a posting about John McCain. As the New York Daily News points out, 2008 presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain (R - Hypocritical Douchebag) is coming under fire for flip-flopping hilariously on what he thinks of the Rev. Jerry Falwell (R - Spittle-Flecked Hateful Bigotry), but that's not the best part.
Toward the bottom of that article, you can see how people caught in the web of their own hypocrisy try to extricate themselves these days:
"I think most people will judge my record exactly for what it is, where I take positions that I stand for and I believe in," McCain said on NBC. "I think most Americans will judge me by my entire record."
In short, they start making utterly vacuous, meaningless proclamations like that one. It's no different from Commander Chimpy McChimpster saying things like "I believe what I believe" or "I mean what I mean." In McCain's case, it's a painfully transparent way to avoid actually addressing the issue.
But this sort of thing can backfire badly. If McCain refuses to discuss his obvious flip-floppery and invites people to look at his record, then he has no grounds for complaint when people do exactly that, and conclude that he's a two-faced, hypocritical hack. Once McCain's made the invitation, he can't whine about how people accept it and what conclusions they come to, can he?
Now, it just remains to be seen whether anyone is smart enough to take McCain's offer and run with it.
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