Beltway Snark

The New York Times is rehashing the “McCain almost became a Democrat” story for an article published today. There’s nothing new or shocking in the article if you’re already familiar with McCain’s dalliances with the Dems, but if you’re unfamiliar it sheds some new light on McCain:

Senator John McCain never fails to call himself a conservative Republican as he campaigns as his party’s presumptive presidential nominee. He often adds that he was a “foot soldier” in the Reagan revolution and that he believes in the bedrock conservative principles of small government, low taxes and the rights of the unborn.

What Mr. McCain almost never mentions are two extraordinary moments in his political past that are at odds with the candidate of the present: His discussions in 2001 with Democrats about leaving the Republican Party, and his conversations in 2004 with Senator John Kerry about becoming Mr. Kerry’s running mate on the Democratic presidential ticket.

Not really much point in discussing this again, he already has the GOP nomination and the Dems can’t really use it against him. Maybe it’s a slow news day over at the NYT.