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POLITICAL CONNECTIONS

McCain Is Everyone's Maverick -- For Now

The candidate has tacked to his party's mainstream while keeping his outsider luster, and many Republicans have made peace with quirks they once criticized.

by Ronald Brownstein
Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008


The contradiction at the core of this week's Republican convention is that it has celebrated most lavishly the attributes of John McCain that previously provoked the most antagonism in the party he now leads.

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