Ramesh Ponnuru continues to make the case for John McCain and, both practically and ideologically, he’s not unpersuasive. Ponnuru sees McCain as an excellent conservative candidate:
And with a McCain boomlet in progress, Ponnuru proposes that this may be a time for bold – nay, unprecedented – action: McCain could announce that he would term-limit himself to just four years in the White House:
To me, this sounds a little too much like Bob Dole taking the gloves off and giving up his Senate seat during the 1996 election – a bold move that did nothing but set him on the road to Doritos and Viagra commercials. But that doesn’t mean it wouldn’t work! Of course, I’m not convinced that McCain absolutely must take drastic action. As I noted last week:
This is not to say McCain’s a shoe-in. If the time is right for him and his ideas, however, the voters will figure it out. And none of the candidates has such a strangle-hold on the nomination as to make it impossible for McCain to ride a wave all the way to the Twin Cities.
