In his latest column for the New York Times, Paul Krugman discusses the way John McCain is cozying up with Jerry Falwell and the Religious Right. It used to be that McCain was an avowed enemy of these people and thought that they had no place in the Republican Party. His campaign against them was a campaign against them just as much as it was a campaign against Bush. But now, John McCain has flip-flopped. From being an enemy of the Religious Right, he had blatantly sucked up to Jerry Falwell, the very man who was the symbol of the evils John McCain was supposedly against.

You see, the problem is that John McCain is not knowledgeable when it comes to Iraq. So, the logical question is, what else is he not knowledgeable about? Apparently, he is not knowledgeable about social issues, either. So, instead of thinking for himself, he forfeits his credibility as a maverick and drinks at the halls of power with Jerry Falwell instead.