Although a hero on his own right, this isn’t about an epic John McCain making a list to save some among thousands of innocents doomed to inevitable death. This actually is about John McCain dealing with a peculiar kind of a list to avert his own inescapable death---his political death at the ballot box, that is---in the hands of the Democrats next November. This is, as well, about the undeniable fact that John McCain is walking into the presidential race proper with a splintered Republican Party that, furthermore, lacks the fire in the belly that only conservatives can ignite and sustain.

McCain can easily rally conservatives behind him. I am referring to across-the-board conservatives who, as I do, clearly understand the inextricable inter-relation among the social, fiscal and national security facets of conservatism, to the point of considering conservatism as one and only one.

All what he has to do is, one way or the other, work on his list; that is, clean up his long "rap sheet", which, for the benefit of all, including McCain himself, follows next.

He, John Sidney McCain III, the senior United States Senator from Arizona and practically the Republican Party nominee for President of the United States of America:

1. Paired with Ted Chappaquennedy to introduce the illegal-aliens amnesty bill.

2. Joined John Edwards and again with Ted Chappaquennedy in the trial lawyer’s-dream Patients' Bill of Rights (By the way, Edwards made his fortune as a tort-trial lawyer.)

3. Paired with Russ Feingold Drastically to introduce that infamous free-speech trumping bill.

4. Paired with Joe Lieberman to introduce crackpot "climate-change" legislation inspired by Al Gore’s manmade global warming hoax.

5. Is on the bandwagon of "climate-change", actually a codeword for Al Gore’s manmade global warming hoax, and a smart-ass way of getting away with the hoax upon any climate change, which is something that continually has happened, is happening and will ever happen on earth.

6. Opposed Bush’s two tax cuts, and worse, using leftist class warfare arguments.

7. Supports social security credit for illegal aliens.

8. Advocates for full criminal trials for terrorists.

9. Wants to close Guantanamo and ship the terrorist guests to mainland prisons.

10. Opposes harsh interrogation techniques, such as dropping water ("waterboarding") on the face of manacled Islamofascist terrorists that wouldn’t hesitate to behead any of us with their own daggers, or mass murder children, women and men for the only "sin" of being Americans.

11. Joined the Democrats and the rest of the left and Islamofascists, along with other America’s enemies, venomously excoriating America for the pubertal hazing at Abu Ghraib by a bunch of idiotic prison guards.

12. Supports stem-cell research on human embryos, which abortionists use as an "altruistic" justification for the murder of babies in gestation via abortion on demand.

13. Opposes a marriage amendment to the Constitution.

14. Opposes drilling in ANWR.

15. Wanted to be John Kerry’s VP.

16. Disparaged the ads of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth as "dishonest and dishonorable".

17. Voted against strictly constructionist judges.

18. Vocally manifests of justices of the like of Alito.

19. Is a prominent member of the infamous Gang of 14.

20. Was involved in the Keating-5 ethics scandal.

21. Has chosen as his adviser on immigration (i.e., blanket amnesty for illegals) none else than lawyer Juan Hernández, an unabashedly vocal and hyperactive advocate of illegal immigration, with blanket amnesty, open borders and all.

He did all that, not we, conservatives; it is, then, him who must undo it, not us. But all he does is throw to us some meager crumbs that, he thinks, will placate us.

All what he has pledged is:

On taxes: support to keep Bush’s tax cuts, and not to raise more taxes. But what kind of "support" he means, active or just lukewarm, feigned? Anyway a more Democrat loaded congress---after next November--- would for sure override his veto on both issues.

On illegal immigration: secure the borders first. But he doesn’t explain what he means with "secure the borders". He probably will come out with a ruse like Bush’s, who sent the National Guard "to the border" . . . to do janitorial, clerical, auto-mechanics and other menial work for the Border Patrol, which, furthermore, kept with its hands tied tight by the most absurd "rules of engagement." Then, with the borders "secured" his way, he most likely, will then give blanket amnesty to the illegals. What other purpose serves Juan Hernández as his "immigration" adviser?

On though interrogation of mass-murder bent Islamofascist terrorists: support for the Army Manual. But that is an ethereal, Delphian position in itself, and which doesn’t address the medullar issue: waterboarding and else.

However, and worse, in the latest---and the last, for I hit the "unsubscribe" tab--- email I received today, March 11, 2008, from JohnMcCain@GOP.com McCain shrunk his pledge to mere routine generalities and misconceptions about the global war on Islamofascism:

"My commitment will be to cut taxes, reduce the size of government and bring the war [(?) The Iraq War ended the day Baghdad Fell, April 9, 2003; what’s been going thereafter has been a flawed occupation/stabilization effort that turned in the right direction only after the launch of the "surge"] to the swiftest possible conclusion without leaving the region [(?) The war on Islamofascism is global, including here in the U.S.A.] in chaos, or an enemy emboldened to attack us elsewhere with weapons we dare not allow them to possess."

McCain says that, now that he secured the nomination, his next step is "uniting" the Republican Party, which in his mind means enrolling to his side talk radio pundits such as Sean Hannity, Michael Reagan and others of that species, and have them golden the pill he wants us to swallow: that we not only can, but should trust him.

By the way, Hannity has arranged for a "mano-a-mano" charade interview with McCain one of these days, of which, I bet my arm, the result will surely be that Hannity gets puny "satisfactions" from McCain, and voila, by spontaneity, Hannity becomes a McCainista.

Everybody knows Hannity’s number.

Remember that Hannity was an active and enthusiastic supporter of abortionist, gun grabber, panderer to the homosexual lobby, and friend of illegal immigration, and scandal-closet owner Rudolph Giuliani. As soon as Giuliani scampered the race, Hannity then went vociferating for days against McCain, as if attempting to make us forget about his past active support for Giuliani.

No! Parrots trying to jawbone us into supporting John McCain won’t do; McCain has to clean his entire rap-sheet to get us on his side. Conservatives MUST demand it.

How he has to do it . . . is his job to figure out; it is him who caused the whole mess, he has to undo it. If he thinks that conservatives are lemmings or that he can pied-piper us into lockstep marching behind him, he better prepare for a rude awakening.