Here’s Sam Brownback’s pro-John McCain piece in today’s National Catholic Register, which God-o-Meter announced was coming yesterday. The piece is a response to an earlier Register piece arguing that McCain’s pro-life advocacy was lacking. One snippet: I am convinced that John McCain is our best hope to advance the cause of human dignity on a…

Trying to win over his own skeptical base, and to combat reports that he has criticized Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito for “wearing his conservatism on his sleeve,” John McCain plans to use his address this week at the Conservative Political Action Conference to talk judges. The AP reports: [Mccain] said he didn’t remember saying,…

You’d think that having conservative legal luminary like Stephen Calabresi–cofounder of the Federalist Society–editorialize on John McCain’s behalf would be a big plus for the Arizona Senator as he tries to mollify his party’s social conservative base. But check out Calabresi’s reasoning in this morning’s Wall Street Journal: We believe that the nomination of John…

God-o-Meter has argued more than once that despite his success winning enough evangelical votes to shore up the GOP nomination, John McCain will have a much tougher time mobilizing tens of thousands of religious conservatives–the ones who provided George W. Bush with vital organizing muscle in 2004–come November. The Weekly Standard’s Fred Barnes feels the…

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