“I do not support Roe versus Wade. It should be overturned,” the Arizona senator told about 800 people in South Carolina, one of the early voting states.

McCain also vowed that if elected, he would appoint judges who “strictly interpret the Constitution of the United States and do not legislate from the bench.”

The above excerpt from Siser Toldjah's lends me to think that McCain will either lose his support of the media and/or moderates or he will have provided further evidence of his hypocrisy.

It's largely conventional wisdom at this point. When was the last time the GOP nominee was a maverick who came out of nowhere? Barry Goldwater is the only one in the last half century that could even conceivably qualify.

2004: Sitting president
2000: Popular big state governor, establishment favorite, son of former president
1996: Senate Majority Leader, failed 1980 candidate, failed 1976 VP nominee
1992: Sitting president
1988: Sitting vice president
1984: Sitting president
1980: 1976 runner-up
1976: Sitting president
1972: Sitting president
1968: Failed 1960 nominee, two-term former VP
1964: Barry Goldwater. Arguably, not the Establishment guy.
1960: Sitting vice president
1956: Sitting president
1952: WWII hero, could have been either party's nominee.

The Democrats, by contrast, have nominated non-early-frontrunners many times: Clinton in 1992, Dukakis in 1988, and Carter in 1976 come readily to mind.

Further, McCain is now a clear frontrunner in a party that tends to give its nomination to the guy whose “turn” it is.

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It would be a perfect political marriage. It's the ONLY chance either of them will become president.

In a head to head match up, taking the other guy by 21 points and only having 13 points saying neither is a pretty clear acceptance of Rudy vs. McCain.

That's not to say things won't change over the next year, but if McCain is 'sitting' on a lead then he either doesn't understand the situation or he knows something the rest of us don't.

I think another possibility is he knows this is his last hurrah for running for president. If he doesn't make it this time, hes not like to be up for it the next round given his age. So maybe his lack of enthusiasm is showing more insight into reality than Kerry ever has.

Furthermore, aren't all six top Presidential candidates (Dem and Repub) so far implosions waiting to happen? McCain's a thin-skinned and increasingly insincere martinet; Giuliani's twisted psyche makes Nixon's look disarmingly simple; Romney belongs to what most Americans consider a fringe religion and finished his gubernatorial career passing a fiscal EFP of a program that should be detonating just as his campaign rolls into the big primaries; Hillary is dragging her Iraq AUMF vote along like Jacob Marley; Obama is African-American in a country that has elected a grand total of three black senators in its (post-reconstruction) history; and John Edwards appears to have all the gravitas of a pot that hasn't had its turn in the kiln yet.

I'm having a hard time believing that any of these clowns are going to be nominated by either party. But God help us, I suppose it could happen.

Republican presidential hopeful Senator John McCain created waves this past weekend with a statement he made to a South Carolina crowd of about 800 that he believes Roe v. Wade should be overturned. Via AP:
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