OMG: McCain to take public funding???

Repugs hate McCain more than we knew.....and he's starting to realize that the wallets are closed.

McCain can't keep the Strayed Talk express in his own lane. After going for public financing, then reneging, violating the rules, he's going back to the public funds. So now he's giving back $3 million (only??) to donors and looks like he's gonna take the taxpayers' $84 million (which frankly is more than he seems to be able to raise, and what Obama can take in  over just a couple of months)
Boston Globe:

The move is largely procedural, and McCain's campaign said yesterday that it has not yet decided whether to accept public funding or to raise money on its own for the November presidential election. But the decision to return checks - which was made as the Democratic candidates announced raising $60 million combined in March, nearly as much as McCain had raised for the entire campaign through February - indicates that McCain is laying the groundwork for doing so.

Sounds like a bid for the sympathy vote. The problem is that old men just don't generate very much sympathy.
Now here is the beauty:

"Senator McCain has made it clear that he expects to participate in the general election public financing system, and he hopes the Democratic nominee will do so as well," Brian Rogers, McCain spokesman, said in a statement.

Flipper, thy name is John McCain.

Looks like they're gonna have to change the name of the bus to the "Swerving Old Geezer stay in your own lane don't follow this guy too closely who knows what he's gonna do next Express':

"The campaign reserves the right to change course, but these developments reflect our current plans."