Senator McCain...

Some people seem quite at home in the US Senate, it is an exclusive 100 member club, many of the nation's wealthiest and most self satisfied families are there... McCain is there and there he will stay, past November and next year too... the conservative Christians are not coming on board his ship of politics, and suddenly his campaign takes on the feeling of deck chairs, music playing, and a boat with a big hole in it.
Finding electoral votes for McCain seemed difficult from the beginning, but somehow he floated above the rest of the Republican primary entries, so McCain floats but his campaign does not do as well. Votes have the limited role of picking electors who elect the President, the illusion of popular vote was shattered in the Bush era along with many other real freedoms, but votes must come from people, enthusiasm, and effort...the calling card of the Christian Conservatives ...who want a world of war for oil ...er uh...freedom, war against terror , war against sin- whatever that might mean if not taking lives...wasn't there a commandment? hmmm, and it seems, most of all war against rights for gay people. While McCain and these war things sound like a match made in a Washington summer before a fall election [I didn't want to say Hell..so this is quite close]; it looks more and more like we will continue to have Senator McCain.