That John McCain is a real bipartisan who reaches across the aisle. For example, he is so willing to work with both parties, that he equates death with Democratic control of the Senate:McCain is in Iowa today (Wednesday), campaigning with GOP Congressmen Steve King and Tom Latham as well as Republican congressional candidate Jeff Lamberti. McCain spoke at a mid-day news conference in Des Moines, where McCain was asked what his reaction would be to a Democratic take-over of the Senate.

"I think I'd just commit suicide," McCain said, as the Republicans standing beside him burst into laughter. Let's see if any of the many Sunday talk shows hat so love McCain ask him why he finds a Democratic Senate so repulsive if McCain is supposed to be so damn bi-partisan.

Also, last night when I was looking through Technorati for recent links to MyDD, I came across this whopper from Riehl World View:DailyKos is now part and parcel of the mainstream Democrat movement. If Democrats, individually, not en masse, do not denounce this act and that alliance in the strongest of terms they are not fit to stand for election as a dog catcher in the United States. Democrats have to denounce their alliance with the mainstream Democratic movement in order to become elected? This is one of the best articulations of what Republicans have come to expect form Democrats: in order for Democrats to be deemed worthy of election, they have to denounce themselves. This is a perfect articulation of the hole Democrats dug themselves into through the triangulation strategy. In order tow in, you have to denounce your own coalition.

Incidentally, while reading through right wing blogs after Senator Craig of Idaho was accused as being gay, it quickly became obvious to me that the easiest way to send conservatives into a blind rage is to accuse their leaders of being gay. This clearly seems to be the worst offensive possible someone can commit against a conservative. The Mark Foley case could really have a debilitating retrenchment effect on the conservative movement for a long time to come. Pluralism within their own ranks, and the consequence of being left out of a power structure that punishes those who culturally deviate from the norm, really is their ultimate fear.