And if support for the Iraq war is considered a fatal drawback for a Republican, then we can pretty much assume no Republican can win in 2008. Of course, Novak was against the war himself, so I suspect a bit of projecting is going on here on his part.

Hey Knemon, I’m in the middle of reading The Prince of the City, the recent book on Rudy’s mayorality. I’ve been leaning toward Giuliani in 2008, but this may be the tipping point. I already knew about his anticrime work, but reading how hard he worked at taking on the bureaucratic special interests, the folks who believed the best kind of spending is government spending, is very inspiring. Considering how much Congress seems intent on building bridges to nowhere, I’m thinking we could use a good dose of Rudy running the federal budget.

If McCain had contracted a type of cancer that had poor odds of survival or a likely recurrence, then I would agree with those expressing such doubts. But I believe that he was treated for melanoma, which if caught in the early stages (which his was) is quite curable, with a low chance of any recurrence.

It’s this type of fear and ignorance which makes normally sane and reasonable people sound like retrograde troglodytes, which I definitely don’t feel represents the commenters here in any way. Cancer can stike anyone at any time for any reason, but tagging a person with the label of a somehow physically broken individual after he’s basically been declared fit for duty by his oncologists is quite a limited wordview.

His cancer is an issue too.

He needs to cancel his weekly appearances on the Sunday Morning Talk Shows. In the hinterlands…he doesn’t have support.