Conservativa

A strong showing for McCain. I really have mixed feelings about a McCain nomination. My strongest issue is fighting and winning the war on terror, (that was declared on us, as far as I am concerned, the day the Iranian hostages were taken) and McCain easily would take on the role of Commander in Chief. The military would certainly respect him. So I would be very happy with him there.

However, another important issue to me is illegal immigration. Perhaps someone like McCain who, like a lot of long-time Senators, has probably not lived anyplace other than some gated community, for decades, just never encounters it. If it is invisible to him, then perhaps he thinks it is an issue that was ginned up by talk radio just to get ratings. It isn’t. On his website, McCain says:

I have always believed that our border must be secure and that the federal government has utterly failed in its responsibility to ensure that it is secure. If we have learned anything from the recent immigration debate, it is that Americans have little trust that their government will honor a pledge to do the things necessary to make the border secure.

Quite right!

Then we see that he has this guy as an advisor.

Some serious advice to McCain here: if he would lose that guy and hire someone who appears to be serious about border security, I think that would go a long way towards mending some fences (sorry, couldn’t resist) with conservatives.

Something else that could make a big difference to a McCain campaign - a great VP pick.

Jindal for VP! (yeah, I know he just got sworn in. I’m just sayin’)

Or, Fred. Or even Rudy. Someone more conservative than McCain, and/or someone Southern, someone with an interesting personality and/or life story, someone conservatives just like. That too would bring along some of us who don’t hate McCain but are still not enthused about him.