Want Another Eight Years of Bush? (GOD! NOOOOO!)

Then vote John McCain, says this piece in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (by my hero, Helen Thomas) which I think makes a lot of (very sad) sense:

In his bid for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, Sen. John McCain is moving to the right.

The Arizona Republican, who failed to win the Republican presidential nomination in 2000, is the most visible Republican on television, outside the White House, and seems to never pass up an opportunity to appear on Sunday talk shows.

All this appears to be part of his effort to transform his image as a maverick independent so that he can make his pitch to the conservative Republican base that will vote in the party's primaries and caucuses two years hence.

Electing McCain would be an extremely grave mistake; it was before he moved to the right and it's even moreso now.