"making his bed with porcupines"

I was listening to Bill Moyers today on NPR's Fresh Air, when he said "McCain appeared to be pinched as he courted the fundamentalist religious right, the same group who successfully destroyed his 2000 campaign. ...He was making his bed with porcupines." I laughed so hard.. it's so true. Had McCain not courted the religious right, and allied himself with W early on, and not picked Palin, and been more 2000ish and less 2008ish in his bizarre inconsistencies... he probably would have won. Hell, I voted for him in the failed SC primary in 2000.