Thanks for reminding me of the honorable McCain's liberal bent. His war hero status always makes me glide over his wrongheaded bent to tack left on economic issues, illegal aliens and waterboarding.

I only voted for him because I had no other choice.

Time for Mr. McCain to retire and let a true republican take his seat.

Michelle, unless you've got some really weird stuff hiding in a closet somewhere, you need to start thinking about graduation day. So many conservatives come by their wisdom the hard way - not so much as Libs that were mugged but as fools who lived badly and then awoke. Duely noted, you are included in the general clamour of slander directed at your "ilk" but I don't recall hearing particulars. Does this mean that you're "vet-able"? If so please run for something soon, please mount that stage. There are too few capable of your clarity upon it.

Thanks for this well thrown elbow at our beloved point guard. I do love her to pieces but they all need CLOSE scrutiny.

That Reagan was inclusive of all those who might serve as allies to his aims is part of the story of his historic accomplishments.

That endless poseurs entrenched themselves under the cover of his dignified and principaled leadership is part of the story of the undoing of much of what he gave us.

Here, here, Sarah! Kiss old Elmer Fudd good-bye!

We want to still know who you are by the time 2012 gets here.

Michelle nails it by sticking to the main issues. McCain has lots of foolish ideas, and so do many Republicans. Let's let the issues dictate support for candidates, not some unthinking popularity contest or endorsements. Being a hero doesn't make you correct on the issues.

Anyone want to bet that McRINO doesn't do an Arlen Spector?

What Ms Malkin calls McCain Regression Syndrome is part of the larger disease known as the Big Tent GOP. This is the self-destructive belief that the GOP must be all things to all people. We can be the party of compromise on economic issues, of inclusion on immigration issues, of tolerance on social issues like abortion and gay marriage, and if we would just sit down to talk with the Liberals, we could hammer out something that works for everyone.

That mentality is what got us into the mess we're in today. There's a reason Liberal outlets like the NY Times always seemed to like McCain and called him "Maverick." They had figured out that his eagerness to compromise would allow them to play him like the proverbial fiddle.

When you want something that you know will not be welcomed by most people, and you know your opponent is quite proud of his willingness to compromise, if you're crafty you realize that you actually have a big advantage. Let's say you want a $1 billion tax increase. You know the public will scream, but you also know that if you propose a $10 billion increase, John McCain will offer you a compromise of "only" 3 or 4 billion. You'll grudgingly accept it, because it's at least 3 times what you wanted in the first place, but you need to preserve your sucker's naivety, so you pretend not to be elated.

That's what compromise with the Left gets you.

Or, you go into negotiations in good faith. You want a billion dollar increase, so you start with that. The opposition offers you one tenth that amount, your counter-offer is met with another compromise, and you agree on a $250 million increase. THIS year. Next year you go into negotiations again, until 5 or 10 years down the road you've nibbled away at the tax increases until you've lassoed yourself a THREE billion dollar increase over a decade. That's what the Left does.

They take concessions from us incrementally, until we find ourselves looking back in 12 years, "compromised" in baby steps that added up until we're inched clear over the horizon!

No more. Look where they've inched us already! This is not acceptable. We've got to take this country back to its Conservative roots, its traditional values. We've got to restore America to the EXCEPTIONAL country it always was. We cannot do that by compromising with Liberals.

We can't do that by being the Big Tent party that tries to include every single faction under the sun. That's the mentality of those RINOs who have let the Left brow-beat them into accepting the Leftist definition of everything from "traditional" to "morality." Michael Steele would have us up there apologizing for insisting that right and wrong DO exist, that objectivity is necessary for good judgment, that discriminating between good and bad is the basis for rational thought.

We here in Massachusetts have accomplished a miracle, but it was not really about Martha Coakley or even Scott Brown. It was about Obama, and the most radical administration ever to sit in the White House. The worst possible thing we could do now is COMPROMISE with the Left. We've got to restore Conservative values, and we've got less than 10 months to make it happen. FIGHT!

Absolutely agree with MichaelSSEC but still not quite sure I've come to earth on how I see the GOP, whether the "Big Tent" isn't an inseparable part of the Grand Old Party.

The GOP has to be used where it can be to forward the facts of liberty and left to its ponderous self when it fails to advance the cause.

The people led the GOP to support Scott Brown, not the other way around.

Do we never learn from our past mistakes? Are we doomed to repeat recent history simply because we see a familiar name on a ballot? Truth is, the policies of the past seventeen years have been counterproductive in nearly every aspect imaginable where personal liberties and national defense are concerned.

There's a modicum of truth to the adage, "Familiarity breeds contempt." It's time to take a needle to the bubble surrounding incumbents such as John McCain, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, John Kerry and the rest of the roster where that losing 'team' is concerned. How many times do you continue to walk into a brick wall before you realize the only sensation resulting from such an experience is a tremendous headache?