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What I feel is the most important excerpt from it is here:

Toward the end of his speech, after promising to prevent Iran from possessing, “…the weapons to advance their malevolent ambitions,” McCain promised to remain the maverick he has always been. He said:

“We have had a few disagreements, and none of us will pretend that we won’t continue to have a few. But even in disagreement, especially in disagreement, I will seek the counsel of my fellow conservatives. If I am convinced my judgment is in error, I will correct it. And if I stand by my position, even after benefit of your counsel, I hope you will not lose sight of the far more numerous occasions when we are in complete accord.”

This is vintage McCain. He promises to hear, not to listen. He promises to seek counsel, but not to respect it.

To be fair to McCain, there are times, in war, when a president has to make decisions based on facts the public does not and cannot know. But those decisions aren’t the ones Mr. McCain has made on many domestic issues conservatives care most about.

He pledged to protect the lives of the unborn, to protect the right to keep and bear arms under the Second Amendment, but he did not — as Gov. Romney did earlier that day — support a constitutional amendment to prevent gay marriage. And what he promises is that he will give conservatives a fair hearing.

That is less than we require of our leaders. We require them to adhere to our basic principles, and that those principles be the basis for their decisions.

I also received an email from Richard A. Viguerie at ConservativeHQ.com, showing some very interesting poll results from CPAC.

(Manassas, VA, February 9) Richard A. Viguerie, chairman of ConservativeHQ.com, today released the results of a true random poll of 1,000 conservative activists attending the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, D.C.

CPAC is the nation’s largest annual gathering of conservatives, and was chosen by former Gov. Mitt Romney as the place where he announced his withdrawal from the GOP presidential race on Thursday.

The questions posed and the results recorded are as follows.

“In your opinion, is Senator John McCain a true conservative?”

“If Senator John McCain is the Republican nominee, I will…”

From these results, it is clear that Senator McCain has a challenge in gaining the conservative support he needs in order to win the general election,” says David Franke of ConservativeHQ.com.

“Only 3 in 10 conservative activists strongly support him. Even if you add in the people who will limit their activity to voting for him, and all of the undecided conservatives (not likely), he will have only 83.5% of the conservative vote. Historically, the Republican presidential candidate needs more than 80% of the conservative vote in order to win. The poll results show he can possibly reach that level of conservative support, but it will be dauntingly hard.”

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