Do Anything

You hear about it all the time, the candidate who will "say or do anything to get elected." Usually that hyperbole indicates that a politician has just made a particularly obvious pander to some group, but in case of McCain's torture vote yesterday, I think it's absolutely spot on.

McCain, of course, is a former POW and victim of torture who has, naturally enough, spoken out against torture on numerous occasions in the past. But Wednesday he voted to effectively allow the use of torture by the CIA because that's what the Republican base wants. It's a rather shocking flip-flop, and if McCain is willing to cave on something like this, which bears directly on what has to be the most horrifying experience of his life, then it's no hyperbole to say he really will say or do anything.