there is no risk in rubber-stamping any measure involved in the WoT--up to and including torture.

Hooray!

Not so good news when you are a suspect, though, innocent or not. And knowing that you have authorities playing Jack Bauer might also make some people uncomfortable.

The LLL dems keep accusing the republicans of supporting torture while the prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison keep asking for the US troops to take over the prison again. Makes perfect sense to me.

RALF!!!!

How are you, it's been a long time!

No viewer roots against Jack.

McCain seems to running on terrorist rights.

He seems intent on making sure KSM gets an OJ show trial.

Yes, no one can get to his Right, so he doesn't need to demonstrate his bona fides. The Democrats do.

Tom Tancredo can get to his right.

>RALF!!!!

How are you, it's been a long time!

Pretty well, thanks! And you, Sandy? :)

No viewer roots against Jack.

But few volunteer to be interrogated by him. :)

"Tom Tancredo can get to his right"

You left Pat Buchanan off.

I think OJ meant "no one" to mean "no person with a snowball's chance in h**l to get more than 5% of the vote even in his homestate of Iowa".

Bob,

Sorry, after the Neanderthal post, I didn't realize we were still being serious here today.

"Not so good news when you are a suspect, though, innocent or not."

Let's not pretend the guys at Guantanamo were just randomly picked off the streets. Captured on a battlefield in Afganistan after a firefight with NATO troops = ~0% chance of innocence.

Let's not pretend the guys at Guantanamo were just randomly picked off the streets. Captured on a battlefield in Afganistan after a firefight with NATO troops = ~0% chance of innocence.

Some seem to have been sold to the coalition by warlords, others were shepherds with an IQ below 70.

OJ:

When John McCain moves to give Khalid Sheikh Mohammed access to classified information, and when he wants to give Al-Qaeda rights under the Geneva Conventions, then virtually any serious candidate can go comfortably to his right.

Dick Morris was incredulous on Hannity today, and properly so. McCain and Graham are playing chicken, and they are going to lose (via the electorate).

No voter thinks Dick Morris is tougher than John McCain.

Dick Moorris has won more national elections than John McCain.

They may have low IQ's or have been sold by warlords but when they are released and picked up again on the battlefield, one might think they are validly prisoners. Also, how high an IQ do you have to have to shoot a weapon and kill somebody.

What was he ever elected?

McCain is going to be in for some rude surprises in the run-up to the primaries. He will be questioned sharply and jeered by some, and if he responds like Howard Dean, he will be toast.

Legacy alone is not enough. But it seems to be his buttress.

It is easy to say that he will carry the party through and build on the current majority. But a President has to give people a reason to vote for him, real or not. Even when that vote is passive (like Nixon in '72 or Clinton in '96).

Consider this - if McCain and Rudy sat down with Roger Mudd, who would be more likely to stumble his way through the interview? The mayor or the senator?

He's already run and none of his rivals have--they'll crumble as he did last time while he skates.

Telling American voters that captured terrorists should see classified information that average Americans can't see is electoral suicide.

McCain must believe he is atoning for something; only guilt can make someone defend a position this stupid.

And for McCain and Lindsay Graham (and Specter) to support Dianne Feinstein's position on the NSA intercepts is beyond silly. I can only conclude that McCain wants no objections to his candidacy from the Left. But that won't help him win on the Republican ticket.

McCain's excessive concern for POWs, like his skitteshness on CFR, is understandable. It also gives him the cred he needs to talk crazy about waging the war.