The Democrat's Favorite Republican

Both the Washington Post and LA Times today ran puff pieces on their favorite Republican - John McCain and Predictably set up social conservatives as the bad guys who may keep McCain from getting the GOP nomination.

There's a lot of reasons why Republicans of all stripes don't like McCain:

• He basically gutted the first amendment in the guise of campaign finance "reform."
• He and his allies consistently smeared former FEC chairman Brad Smith for defending the first amendment.
• He's inconsistent on influence peddling.
• He gave Dick Durbin cover fire when the latter made some incredibly stupid comments about Iraq and our troops.
• And most important of all: He seems to have no notion of what the phrase "limited government" means.
• He's flip-flopped on taxes.
• His membership in the Gang of 14.