Chait still "kinda likes" McCain:
Beneath his wildly fluctuating ideological positions, McCain is an establishmentarian Republican. Unlike Bush, he cares about elite opinion. He is comfortable sharing power in the traditional postwar style rather than monopolizing it. He might not be another Teddy Roosevelt, but right now another Gerald Ford doesn't look so bad.
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2008/07/hard-to-hate/214005/
