"The Mac is Back", and Thankfully Not in the White House

That's what Jim Geraghty is feeling these days about John McCain:

John McCain has prompted me to say the unthinkable.

The right man won in 2008.

You'll need to read the whole thing for all the context, but Jim adds this:

Mac is back - back to his moral preening about how bipartisan he is, back to his reflexive demonization of his own party, back to his refusal to recognize any legitimate concerns raised by those who disagree with him. If we're going to have Democratic agenda enacted, better it be by a Democrat than a Republican obsessed with avoiding the "partisan" label in the White House.

This isn't a partisan issue; Americans of all political stripes ought to be a little uncomfortable with foreign governments being able to donate millions to the household of the person who is in charge with negotiating with them. (If Bush had named Henry Kissinger to a diplomatic post, wouldn't our liberal friends object to foreign governments being able to hire his firm? Wasn't this what kept him off the 9/11 Commission?) No Republican was saying Hillary can't be Secretary of State; they're just saying her husband shouldn't collect checks from foreign sources while she's doing that.

But John McCain thinks that's being too partisan.

John McCain was the worst GOP candidate for president I can remember. Bob Dole was bad, but at least he was a conservative.

To John McCain bipartisanship is defined as doing what Democrats want him to do, and if we're just going to get a bunch of lefty stuff out of Congress and the White House, better the Democrats get full credit (or blame) for it.