Another New Low for McCain

Julie Mason at the Chron's Beltway Confidential points out that "I'm going to run a clean campaign" McCain officially put out the first negative ad of the presidential race a few days ago. Not that that comes as much of a surprise; McCain's been perfectly willing to flip-flop on ethical commitments before. He can't decide whether to agree with Phil Gramm about our being a "nation of whiners" or to fire him, or whether to condemn the endorsement of a hatemonger like Pastor Hagee or embrace it. Why should he be any more ethical about a trivial matter like clean campaigning?