McCain sneers at the importance of Iowa, whose caucuses on January 3 are the first contest in the Republican presidential race. “If I don’t finish in the top 50 in Iowa, I’ll still stay in the race,” he told reporters in South Carolina last week. In Iowa the next day, McCain went out of his way in a televised debate to denounce the federal subsidy for ethanol, a popular program in the state.

So the old McCain is back, the flippant, contrarian candidate who came close to defeating George W. Bush for the Republican nomination in 2000. And amazingly enough, after his campaign to be nominee in 2008 all but collapsed this summer, McCain is experiencing a rebirth. He now has a chance–an outside chance, at least–of winning the Republican nomination.

The Weekly Standard

McCain has irked me in the past and will likely do so again in the future, but the one thing I respect about the man is his honesty. While he still lags in the polls, he does seems to have experienced a rebirth, as the writer suggests.  I really like his fiscal positions and think he could achieve a lot of headway in reigning in the waste in government and maybe paying down the debt.  While I still haven’t officially decided who I will vote for on January 19th, I have narrowed it down from five to three now, with McCain being one of the three.