Michael Graham writes in with information I didn’t have (although it has been reported) and some commentary: “I assume you know that McCain was responding to my criticism of him on Imus’s show a day or two earlier. I told Imus that while I voted for him in the SC 2000 primary, I wasn’t sure I wanted McCain to actually be president because of the ’loose vent flap’ problem. Most people know immediately what I mean by that, but Imus didn’t, so I said John McCain is the kind of guy who could be a great president 9 out of 10 days, but on that 10th day he might storm into the Oval Office and shout, ‘That’s it–we’re nukin’ Iran!’ or ‘It’s time to get rid of that First Amendment!’ “Imus then repeated my comments to McCain, and McCain offered what I believe to be a telling response. He does, in fact, have a fundamental disdain for free speech. It should be a problem for every GOP primary voter.”
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Ramesh Ponnuru is the editor of National Review, a columnist for the Washington Post, and a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
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