I've noticed those on the right are scared to death of a marxist who has a D in front of his name, but will gladly pull the lever for a pseudo marxist with an R in front of his name. On each substantive issue, McCain has spit on the face of conservatism. Its more dangerous to reward someone who says he is a conservative but betrays conservative values . The new talking points will be "even right wing McCain agrees we need a carbon tax, subsidized health care, social security tax increase, government intervention in banking, transportation, etc. If you are to the right of this, than you will be labeled a fringe. The Sean Hannity types will in lockstep support the new platform, and call out Ron Paul supporters for being liberal, or conspiracy theorists, you know because if you disagree with them you must either be a liberal or conspiracy theorist.