Sen. Mel Martinez, new “general chairman” of the RNC, reiterates his support for an illegal-alien amnesty. An interesting wrinkle is that, according to people I’ve spoken with on Capitol Hill, McCain has pulled his name from the McCain-Kennedy amnesty bill of last year, which may well be reintroduced as the Kennedy-Martinez bill. If McCain is, in fact, not going to have his name on this year’s amnesty vehicle, that — – along with his memorable Vanity Fair crack that “I’ll build the goddamned fence if they want it” — suggests that he at least understands how unpopular amnesty is with the public and is willing to distance himself from it. But given his high-profile stance for so long — along with things like his outspoken support for bilingual education — his move will rightly be seen as opportunism far more troubling than Romney’s possibly sincere change of heart on life issues.