Shawn, I am chastened. I will offer a Straight Talk confession:
When I was the treasurer of the Ohio Wesleyan College Republicans,
McCain came to give the commencement address at our school. I drove
him from the airport to the address and back. I liked him and urged
him to run for president.
Granted, that was before McCain-Feingold, McCain-Kennedy,
McCain-Lieberman, Sarbanes-Oxley, Iraq, the tobacco deal, the Bush
tax cuts, the gun show loophole, and a few other disagreements
(though I do remember having an exchange with him on immigration
policy). But Straight Talk is due. So far this year, McCain hasn't
won a single state that I have never visited. That can't be a
coincidence.
As for my own primary vote, I will give no hints on that. Or
as Ruth Bader Ginsburg once put it, "No forecasts, no hints, no
previews."
topics:
Iraq, Immigration
