Being John McCain

Shorter David Brooks:

I loved the mavericky stuff, but the Karl Rove shit works a whole lot better.

And does David Brooks know what "ne'er do wells" means?

Meanwhile, in another example of why the Times op-ed section is becoming so barren I expect to see tumbleweed blow across it in the morning, there's this (in the wood pulp version; haven't been able to find online):

Correction

In some editions of his column on Monday about the presidential forum at Saddleback Churck in California, William Kristol said that there seemed to be no basis for charges that John McCain was not in a "cone of silence" during Barack Obama's interview with the Rev. Rick Warren, and could there have heard questions posed forst to Senator Obama. Senator McCain was in a motorcade for part of Senator Obama's interview. A statement from his campaign said that the "never heard or saw any of Senator Obama's appearance."

They report. You decide.