Born-Again Supply-Sider?

Robert D. Novak writes in his piece, Born-Again Supply-Sider?:

Sen. John McCain, who echoed Teddy Kennedy on taxes when he ran for president in 2000, now sounds more like Jack Kemp as a 2008 candidate. 'I've never voted for a tax increase in 24 years,' he told me last week. 'Never, ever, not under any president including President Reagan, and I will never vote for a tax increase, nor support a tax increase.'

He wants to make permanent the Bush tax cuts. ('If I didn't vote to make those tax cuts permanent, it would have the effect of a tax increase.') He supports radically scaling down the....."

Later, in his second to the last paragraph:

It is difficult to measure how much transformation of McCain from taxer to tax-cutter has contributed to his fading popularity among Washington's media elite, but the romance is gone........"

You had to see this coming. The media was going to give a platform to McCain as much as possible as long as it suited their objective. Once it does not, well look out. For as long as McCain runs for the Presidency, he will be on their hit list.