The pander express

Looks like McCain is going to burnish his anti-science credentials later this month.

At the time, McCain and his handlers were working to burnish his conservative credentials to win over wary Republican primary voters. The effort began with McCain's May 2006 graduation speech at Liberty University, a school founded by the Rev. Jerry Falwell, whom McCain had dubbed an "agent of intolerance" during his rancorous 2000 run for the presidency. His makeover continues on February 23, when he is scheduled to speak before the Discovery Institute, the right-wing think tank that has attempted to introduce into public school biology classes the teaching of Intelligent Design.

The maverick.

UPDATE: More, in which McCain manages to throw his support behind anti-science and exhibiting his remarkable hypocricy in a single speech.