This McCain eulogy was written by the insighful political genius Celia Cohen a mere 120 days ago.
MAVERICKS TOGETHER, CASTLE COMMITS TO MCCAIN
By Celia Cohen
Grapevine Political WriterU.S. Rep. Michael N. Castle, who has made his way in the Congress with a maverick reputation for bucking the Republican Party line, delivered his endorsement Tuesday to John McCain, the presidential candidate with the reputation as the Maverick-in-Chief.
It is probably legitimate to wonder at what point enough mavericks get together to constitute the Establishment, particularly when one of them is the front-runner for the party’s presidential nomination and the other is the party’s standard bearer in his state, but never mind.
Nice. Verily, her journalisaming powers border on mystical. Don’t they?
I love the way she acknowledges how f-ed up her whole premise is and then tries to turn it into a virtue.
Anyway, who is Castle going to back now? My guess is (that famous maverick) Rudy Guliani.