I think McCain Feingold a mistake too, but an honest one. It is not going anyplace given the free speech enabling media environment created by the Net. Like Fred, I thought it was worth a try but changed my mind. McCain in his Pajamas media interview with Roger Simon recently came right out and said “I’m an idealist’ and like a lot of idealists he gets things out of balance – goes too far. I was particularly amused when he came out with the standard left wing explanation for Islamism – lack of economic opportunity. And then showed he was getting it when he said it was ‘something differnt’ when young Muslim MDs hurled themselves in flames at an airport in Scotland. To his credit I think he understands the GWOT the best of any candidate with Rudy and Fred a close second. I also agree with the above that he doesn’t have the executive temperament. But he understands that Islamofascism is the defining issue of our times and that promising to repeat the national disaster of Vietnam as the Dems are doing is the defining issue of this election. I’ll vote for a drover’s dog as we say in Australia before I vote for defeat of my country – McCain Feingold be damned.