John McCain releases first general election ad.

Watch it and tell us what you think.

John McCain suspends aide, sends CLEAR UNMISTAKABLE message to the GOP: No race baiting in this election!

Read more here.

This is another SURE sign that John McCain is serious about running an issues only campaign that will NOT race bait.

The man has character, that many LACK. I suspect that's one reason his poll numbers are improving.

DO YOU HEAR THAT? WE ARE SICK AND TIRED OF RACE BAITING. TALK ABOUT THE ISSUES, LIKE THE ECONOMY, STUPID!

Bush endorses McCain, but with Bush's approval rating BAD, is it a kiss of death?

Is it?

BREAKING news: It's official, as John McCain clinches Republican nomination.

Will someone please tell Mike Huckabee to hang it up already?

Update, 8:35 P. M.: Well, I'll be. Mike Huckabee is doing a press conference, which sounds like he has "seen the light" on this one.

The New York Times: John McCain is "flip-flopping".

The New York Times in this story, suggests that "[t]he risk, Republicans acknowledge, is that Mr. McCain may no longer be seen as above pandering and will be increasingly vulnerable to criticism from both sides", on issues ranging from President Bush's 2003 tax cut -- which he voted against TWICE but now wants to make permanent; his support for comprehensive immigration reform, which included a pathway to citizenship; his opposition to overturning Roe v. Wade which he now supports; his refusal to call for Rumsfeld's resignation, which he now claims "I’m the only one that said that Rumsfeld had to go"; and, his stance against torture, though last month his vote "against a bill that would require the Central Intelligence Agency to abide by the restrictions on interrogating prisoners outlined in the Army Field Manual" revealed otherwise.

While the NYT is usually suspect in its coverage of Conservatives, the paper seems to get it right on this John McCain story.

But the paper forgot to acknowledge that candidates often try to adjust their positions on issues so as to accommodate a targeted constituency, though they do so by moving to the middle, unlike McCain who seems now to be moving to the right.

This latest move, together with his penchant for Lobbyists, will likely do him in.

What say ye?