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Even the dissenters in his crowds are content to mostly needle him about the Iraq war -- the topic that inspires his most eloquent, grassroots Republican-pleasing retorts.

Political predictions this year, as John Tabin notes, are a Choose Your Own Adventure novel at best, a fool's errand at worst. McCain may not, as Mark Steyn posits, be able to "contain the nastiness." If, however, Romney's screeching implosion proceeds unabated and Giuliani's one-note campaign continues to falter, however, devotees of "National Greatness" conservatism might very well flock to McCain to head Mike Huckabee -- a man who believes childhood obesity is a matter of national security -- off at the pass.

McCain couldn't have planned it any better. Now if the mice could just get their act together.

American Spectator Contributing Editor Shawn Macomber is writing a book on the Global Class War.

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John McCain, Television, Iraq, NATO, Conservatism, Immigration