The Maverick Tribe

In appraising the maverick-ness of John McCain last Sunday, the normally astute and sober George Will comes up with this brain fart in paragraph 12:

Republicans are supposed to eschew demagogic aspersions concerning complicated economic matters.

Really.  Then someone needs to tell this to Rudy Giuliani, who appears to believe the phrase "tax cuts" constitutes a comprehensive fiscal policy (and the corollary that any Democratic proposal be understood as nothing more complex than "tax and spend").  Someone needs to relay the message to Mike Huckabee, who rails against C.E.O.'s salaries.  Someone needs to tap the shoulder of Mitt Romney (who as a Bain executive undoubtedly ordered the creative destruction of thousands of jobs) when he pledges to Michigan voters that he would restore every manufacturing job lost there.