It's not every election cycle you hear of a major candidate wrap a major policy speech around his chief competition eight months before Super Tuesday. Of course it's not every election cycle that John McCain does something crazy and looses traction- just the last two.

John McCain, still rolling in pain from the many polls showing him behind Romney in Key states, and now getting hit with national polls with him behind Romney, knows he needs to get busy. So what does he do? He points the finger at Romney for his own huge failings in the current immigration bill. NYTimes with the scoop:

Senator John McCain, facing increasing anger from fellow Republicans over his support of the immigration bill in Congress, is ramping up his counterattack against a main rival in the presidential campaign, Mitt Romney, by accusing him of “pandering for votes” in opposing the measure.

The attack, in a speech Mr. McCain is to give today, marks a sharp escalation in the war of words between two of the leading Republican presidential contenders. It also represents a risky gambit by Mr. McCain to right the course of a presidential campaign that has been consumed by attacks on his immigration stance, with Mr. Romney among his most vocal critics.

This is a major mistake for McCain, and will only ad soap to the proverbial bucket in which Mitt is cleaning the floor with. McCain is really giving a free gift to Romney, since most people are not linking Romney to the immigration debate. The average guy at home does not really realize the Mitt is a leading opponent of the bill, but the average guy does know the bill is crap and nothing but a land mine for McCain. So McCain, out of his shear desperation to regain traction will now take the fight to Romney, and give him the credit of fighting his lousy bill.

To John, Temper-Tantrumer-in Chief, I say "many thanks."