A regular writes in. He’s anti-McCain, as you’ll gather. I’m inserting a link to a post to which he refers.

Would you please tell your friends with the McCain campaign to knock it off with their outreach to conservatives? They just spent the last three weeks telling me that I’m not a robot taking orders from Rush Limbaugh. They’re right. So why do they think I’m going to take orders from Frank Donatelli? (Who is Frank Donateli?) Look: I’m a grown-up. I’ll probably vote for McCain. But don’t insult my intelligence by telling me that McCain is another Reagan. Challenging DeLay on campaign-finance reform is not the same as challenging
Ford on detente.

I’ll be sure to pass that along. Donatelli, by the way, was Reagan’s White House political director and is now a lobbyist. He has been a McCain supporter for a while.

While we’re on the subject, I had a similar reaction to Phil Gramm’s comments in the Washington Post today. He suggested that McCain’s critics are in it as much for their “ego and power” as their “principles.” They’re “going to hurt the party for a long time.” Well, look, senator, your team has been saying for weeks that the critics are big nothings with no followings. You can’t then turn around and appeal for their help on the theory that the fate of the republic hangs in the balance. Especially when your appeal for help is couched in insults. I’d like to see McCain in the White House, and Gramm in his administration, but these comments aren’t helping. (At least McCain isn’t acting like a sore winner himself.)