I’m not surprised by this at all. I have said from day one, regardless of what the polls say, that McCain has no chance of winning the nomination for President in 2008. The man is nothing more than a media whore, which is why he is so popular now in the polls. Once the campaigns start early next year and his opponents slam him with his big government “conservativism”, his refusal to curb illegal immigration, and worst of all his blatant disregard of the Constitution with Campaign Finance Reform, he’ll sink faster than a stone. Good riddence to McCain. Maybe in 2010 we can get a real Republican senator in Arizona. Jeff Flake, anyone??

http://www.drudgereport.com/flash2mc.htm

Facing a loss at a 2008 straw poll event this weekend, Senator John McCain of Arizona told his supporters to write in President Bush [?] as a sign of support, leaving many sputtering.

“For the next three years, with our country at war, he’s our president and the only one who needs our support,” McCain told nearly 2,000 party activists from 26 states gathered in Memphis.

McCain, realizing the national political media had descended on the Southern Republican Leadership Conference, moved to discredit the straw poll by asking delegates to vote for Bush, insiders claim.

Instead of stopping the momentum of Majority Leader Bill Frist - widely anticipated to win the straw poll - the move seemed to expose the McCain camp’s insincerity about its position with the base.