Straight Talk Express has a flat tire

They had a GOP primary in PA yesterday, although it wasn't BREAKING NEWS like the (D)onk one was.

McCain, the presumptive nominee, got 73% of the delegates.

Stand by to ho-hum...

Ummm, isn't the "Straight Talk Express" supposed to be on a downhill roll now? The bus seems to have a flat tire.

The Right is NOT united behind McCain yet, and if the man thinks he can just Whistle Dixie and wait for the convention, he's wrong.

McCain needs to assure us that:

1. His days of tinkering with the Bill of Rights are done, finished, over with.
2. He needs to assure us that "Maverick" means he will take the lonely road of fighting for his Constitution as written instead of doing the popular thing and trying to "evolve" it.
3. As to the Second Amendment, he needs to tell us NOW what part of "shall not be infringed" he doesn't support. Is it that pesky part about including modern military rifles? The part that all the other politicos think is "interpretable"?  Maybe it's the part that I see that says I'm "well-regulated" as to my Militia capabilities if I am prepared to demonstrate them or comply with whatever manual of arms, TO&E or other preparatory guide I'm given?

I'm probably going to vote for the man, but right now my only motivation to do so is that he is the lesser of several evils. McCain needs to understand that there are a LOT of us who are saying this right now, and if we ALL changed our minds, there is no way he could win the election.

I'm watching McCain like a hawk, and am ready to get off his Straight Talk Express at the next stop if he doesn't begin to reassure me he will defend the Constitution and the culture. If I get off and others like me get off, he won't have enough fare-paying passengers to get that bus to the tire shop and get that flat fixed.

Comments

[Barry L. Plotz]

I would also add the need to assure us what position he will take on illegal immigration, and what he will require for appointment to the supreme court. I fear he's planning on being elected by whichever 1/2 of the dems is ticked off their candidate didn't get the nod.

As for me, if the vote were today, I'd punch McCain, but only as a vote against thing 1 or thing 2 from the evil party.

[Will]

I'm really tired of voting for someone who only seems to slow the decline of the country a little, compared to the opposition. And then they take an alternate route to hell! I'm thinking of sitting this one out. Maybe things will come to a head while I'm still able to be effective. Mccain makes me want to puke, which is not far from my response to the other assholes still running. Holding my nose while voting doesn't seem to be an effective way to show my displeasure with the shit that floats to the top of the candidates pile from the supposedly conservative side of politics. If they can't do better, then they are done for. More and more, it's looking like 1860 deja vu.
Got a half year to decide.