'Hi, my name is John McCain'

David Sander's Sunday column....

"John McCain faces a tough task. His emergence as the Republican Party's eventual presidential nominee requires him to reach out to convictional conservatives who, for a better part of a decade and with increasing intensity, have viewed him as an apostate.

To someone who either isn't a conservative or simply equates conservatism with whatever President Bush or some other leading Republican says, this conundrum is hard to understand. For that person it's simple: McCain's problem is merely political so fixing it is as easy as giving a couple of red-meat speeches to conservative groups and making a few promises along the way. But it's much more complicated than that........."