More learned writers clearly prefer to avoid using the term flip-flop and wish to debate the changing positions McCain has taken on FISA and Article II authority as a matter of divining what McCain thinks. This article is an attempt to do just that. However after writing at some length about the constitutional arguments and court rulings swirling around the issue, the author sums up his frustration with McCains thinking as "so internally inconsistent". That one explanation offered for this obfuscation is that - it's a deliberate ploy by McCain's campaign in order to avoid alienating any group in the way of true politican posturing - is not I would suggest a very smart campaign strategy. The article implies that this writer has given up trying to figure out what McCain really thinks but the ever increasing articles on the subject indicates that reporters have not.