Maybe it was the passion of Phil Gramm’s prose or the nitrogen bubbles in my brain, but I must in all honesty say that McCain is growing on me. I am fully aware of the criticisms, and I think many of them are valid. But when you balance all of the criteria — what the country needs, what conservatives want, whether he can get elected, what the other guys offer, etc etc — I think McCain comes out very well. I am a long way from endorsing anybody (I’m not even sure if I do endorsements), but I think he deserves to be taken more seriously around here than he currently is — part of the problem is that we really just don’t have a pro-McCain guy. I’m not that guy, but I think I’m officially no longer anti-McCain (though I still loathe his views on campaign finance reform).

How’s that for full-throated support?