Opinion: Down this road madness lies

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Or maybe just Jacques Derrida.

Jonathan Martin over at Politico dug into the clip files and found some seeming contradictions in things John McCain has said about Mitt Romney (and yes, we know, that fight is over). In a piece that compares presidential primaries with pro wrestling -- sort of -- Martin reports that on Jan. 28, on the eve of the Florida primary, McCain said: ‘The truth is, Mitt Romney was a liberal governor of Massachusetts.’ On Thursday, traveling with Romney, McCain said of the former Massachusetts governor: ‘He came to a very liberal state and campaigned as a conservative and governed as a conservative.’

Martin asks: ‘So, which is it? If it’s the latter, should we just discount whatever is said in a primary as not meaning anything?’

Why limit it to the primaries? It’s not like candidates, once in the Oval Office, follow the road map they ostensibly lay out before the fall election, either.

And remember folks, it’s a fine line between skeptical and cynical.

-- Scott Martelle