It's good to know that, in his 2008 drive to the White House, Senator John McCain will refuse to pander to the various 'evils' of electoral reality simply for the sake of a few million measly votes... or will he...

The AP reports McCain says he no longer "considers evangelist Jerry Falwell to be one of the 'agents of intolerance' that he criticized during a previous White House run."

In 2000, as he sought the Republican nomination that eventually went to George W. Bush, McCain said: "Neither party should be defined by pandering to the outer reaches of American politics and the agents of intolerance, whether they be Louis Farrakhan or Al Sharpton on the left or Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell on the right."

McCain "will be the commencement speaker in May at Liberty University, the Lynchburg, Va., institution that Falwell founded in 1971."

On NBC's Meet the Press, McCain said, "I met with Reverend Falwell. He came to see me in Washington. We agreed to disagree on certain issues and we agreed to move forward.."

But what is it that McCain 'agreed to disagree with'?