I’m sure there are a ton of conservative blogs that go after McCain but unless I’m missing something, I haven’t seen the permanent damage to McCain’s chances in the Republican primaries. That’s certainly not because I think that McCain is any more principled if you were to approach him from the right. It’s just that either everyone feels that everything about McCain is known by all Republican primary voters or a lot of bloggers are playing nice. Where’s the “agents of intolerance” speech on Youtube?

The real question will be whether or not the metrics of ideological consistency that are used against Romney are applied to other candidates like McCain, Giuliani, Pataki, or Hagel.

Soren, is your concern that if you don’t take down Romney, no one will? We’ve been pretty hard on Romney – I think we all find his candidacy fairly laughable (see the poll comparing him to John Cox as one example).

I don’t think any of us have a horse in this race – we will be equal opportunity underminers of any GOP hopeful’s campaign.