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While the New York Times has failed to land a blow on John McCain, and while the two Democrat candidates for president swing wildly at each other, the Associated Press<\/a> has decided to chip away at McCain surging popularity by declaring that he’s more conservative than we might think. They drag out stunning revelations that *gasp* he’s against abortion, that he thinks *gasp* states should make their own decisions about gay marriage. He also *gasp* voted against the ban of semi-automatic weapons. He also has voted to *gasp* support the President in the war against terror.<\/p>\n Here’s a note to the Associated Press; those are minimum requirements for being in the Republican party. If Republicans had voted for someone without those four prerequisites, they’d have voted for a Democrat. AP concludes that;<\/p>\n \u00a0His conservatism could be a problem for McCain \u2014 particularly if this November’s contest is as close as recent presidential elections, which were decided by independent-minded voters in the center of the political spectrum.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n In other words, we’re all pretty stupid because we didn’t know McCain was conservative until AP just told us this morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"