Romney is a good candidate, as is both Tancredo and Huckabee. Huckabee however, once criticised ICE for not giving illegals warning of a raid so that they could make arrangements for the care of the children. Sorry folks, you cannot warn someone of a bust and expect to have a successful bust.  They put themselves and their families in that position by not respecting our immigration laws.

It seems as if it was a bunch of things, some of which started back then. When he decided to endorse then candidate George Bush, rather than just the ticket (which is how the late Ronald Reagan got around endorsing then President Gerald Ford in 1976), I knew campaign workers who were disgusted with the senator.

Still, when he paired up with John Kerry on an effort to raise CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy) in early 2002, and took the side of the Dixie Chicks in 2003, against the radio station executives who were boycotting them, it seemed as if there was still a chance to fufill a dream.

But as he got ever more close to the president, and then came to champion the Iraq war and the resultant occupation, it seemed – seems – that the dream was over. He began to seem to many as simply another pandering politician.

But I think there is more to it, to the man himself. He has one son in Iraq and another, who is a Marine, going over soon. That is twice as many offspring as most members of Congress have in that country.

I sincerely believe that John McCain feels the best course of action in Iraq is to see things through, to avoid another episode of putting helicopters on the top of an embassy – today, it would be somewhere in the so-called “Green Zone” – to take our people, and those sympathetic to our country, to safety. He believes that, as he himself has said, “We must fight them over there, or they will follow us home.”

John McCain remains a man of honor. It is just as simple as the fact that his view of what is correct of America, in terms of foreign policy, no longer matches that of the majority of Americans, or even many in his own party. 

It seems as if it was a bunch of things, some of which started back then. When he decided to endorse then candidate George Bush, rather than just the ticket (which is how the late Ronald Reagan got around endorsing then President Gerald Ford in 1976), I knew campaign workers who were disgusted with the senator.

Still, when he paired up with John Kerry on an effort to raise CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy) in early 2002, and took the side of the Dixie Chicks in 2003, against the radio station executives who were boycotting them, it seemed as if there was still a chance to fufill a dream.

But as he got ever more close to the president, and then came to champion the Iraq war and the resultant occupation, it seemed – seems – that the dream was over. He began to seem to many as simply another pandering politician.

But I think there is more to it, to the man himself. He has one son in Iraq and another, who is a Marine, going over soon. That is twice as many offspring as most members of Congress have in that country.

I sincerely believe that John McCain feels the best course of action in Iraq is to see things through, to avoid another episode of putting helicopters on the top of an embassy – today, it would be somewhere in the so-called “Green Zone” – to take our people, and those sympathetic to our country, to safety. He believes that, as he himself has said, “We must fight them over there, or they will follow us home.”

John McCain remains a man of honor. It is just as simple as the fact that his view of what is correct of America, in terms of foreign policy, no longer matches that of the majority of Americans, or even many in his own party.