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.”
