Conservatives seem to hate John McCain for teaming up with Teddy Kennedy to write an immigration reform bill even though they don’t seem to mind that President Bush teamed up with Teddy Kennedy to write the No Child Left Behind bill, or the fact that Bush supported the McCain-Kennedy immigration bill. This is only one of several reasons why I can’t profess to really understand the conservative mind.
Why is it basically okay when Bush does it, but a mortal sin when McCain does it?
McCain’s nomination may not prevent a serious landslide victory by the Democrats in November, but it will prevent a Pete Wilson effect, where Hispanics identify the GOP as a mortal enemy for a generation of more.
In any case, this is what worries me:
“The thought of [McCain] being president sends a cold chill down my spine,” Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.), also a senior member of the Appropriations panel, told the Boston Globe recently. “He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper and he worries me.”
Sounds perfect for a the job of leader of the free world with his fingertips on Armageddon.
