In this space last fall (I’m too lazy to look up the link) I declared McCain toast on the basis of his enthusiastic let’s-rub-their-noses-in-it race to lead the parade in favor of leniency on illegal immigration. (Victor David Hanson at NRO reminds of the McCain eulogies here.) No reason to change that opinion now, despite the current McCain surge.  Immigration is important to the Republican base. The base votes in primaries. McCain is aggressively wrong on immigration. And the base doesn’t forget. (And the money-men in the base will buy ads to remind us all of McCain’s in-your-face apostasy.) Hard to imagine McCain as the nominee–not impossible, but hard to imagine. And even harder to imagine that Republicans would turn out to vote for him enthusiastically in the general. Between his illegal immigration position and his embrace of the Global Warming Religion, I am not sure I’d bother to vote for him against Hillary. What’s the difference between them on these issues, anyway? The only saving grace he offers is his position on The Global War on Terror, and even then he gives too much consideration to the “we’re monsters who torture!” gang on the Left.

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