For those independents leaning towards McCain, Charles Krauthammer writes the following in his
Washington Post column:
Who in the end prepared the ground for the McCain ascendancy? Not Feingold. Not Kennedy. Not even Giuliani. It was George W. Bush. Bush begat McCain.
That ought to give everyone wavering towards the Rpublicans a good scare. Just as this ought to make us all wonder about the sense and sensibility of the right-wingers, if not even their rationality:
Bush remains popular in his party. Even conservatives are inclined to forgive him his various heresies because they are trumped by his singular achievement: He's kept us safe. He's the original apostate sheriff.