More On McCain Trying To Be The Non-Republican Republican

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George Bush is a dramatically unpopular president, with an approval rating as low as that attained by Richard Nixon in the depths of the Watergate scandal. And the Republican party has become so riddled with corruption that, at a convention that has been graced with the presence of Newt Gingrich, Tom DeLay and others party leaders who have been forced from office under clouds of scandal, McCain felt required to announce that, "I've fought corruption, and it didn't matter if the culprits were Democrats or Republicans."

To an even greater extent than his newly-minted running-mate, Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin – who introduced herself as a battler against crooked Republicans -- McCain referenced his own record as "a maverick," declaring that, "I don't work for a party. I don't work for a special interest. I don't work for myself. I work for you."

The whole anti-Republican Republican ruse might have succeeded, were it not for the fact that McCain's rhetoric was at odds not merely with his own voting record – 90 percent with Bush – and his own Bush-on-steroids agenda.