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Yesterday when McCain flipped out-- first lashing out hysterically at Obama because he failed to keep Republican senators from deserting his anti-veterans position and embarrassing the entire Senate, and then throwing pastors John Hagee and Rod Parsley unceremoniously under the bus-- I had a feeling the far right base would react against him. They did-- but not really for these reasons. Michael Luo's NY Times column, McCain Says Immigration Reform Should Be Top Priority is what lost him, at least for this week, the backing of the racist zealots that make up a substantial part of the lunatic fringe part of Republican base.

In yet another sign of his pivoting toward the general election, Senator John McCain said at a roundtable with business leaders here today that comprehensive immigration reform should be a top priority for the next president.

Mr. McCain’s willingness to address the issue was striking given how the topic became something of a third-rail for Republican presidential candidates during the primary.

For many of the loons he just fried himself on that third rail. Maybe they can write in Heath Shuler or Lou Dobbs. Far right fanatic John Hawkins at loopy GOP propaganda blog, Right Wing News:

Put very simply: John McCain is a liar. He's a man without honor, without integrity, who could not have captured the Republican nomination had he run on making comprehensive immigration a top priority of his administration. Quite frankly, this is little different from George Bush, Sr. breaking his "Read my lips, no new taxes pledge," except that Bush's father was at least smart enough to wait until he got elected before letting all of his supporters know that he was lying to them.

Under these circumstances, I simply cannot continue to support a man like John McCain for the presidency. Since that is the case, I have already written the campaign and asked them to take me off of their mailing list and to no longer send me invitations to their teleconferences. I see no point in asking questions to a man who has no compunction about lying through his teeth on one of the most crucial election issues and then changing his position the first time he believes he can get away with it.

That crazy Michelle Malkin lady, who was deemed too off the deep end even for Fox and got tossed off the air, the one who aspires to be just like Ann Coulter, short circuited today pointing out, with all the vitriol she could muster that "McCain has shed every last pretense that he 'got the message' from grassroots immigration enforcement proponents and is back to his full, open-borders shamnesty push. No surprise to any of you. But his complete regression back to the 'comprehensive immigration reform' euphemism is a notable milestone."

Other Republican propaganda sites have been bailing on McCain for various and sundry reasons. Adam Lawson, who describes himself as "A bitter, typical white guy," will certainly never vote for Obama but doesn't seem ready to vote for McCain either.

I am officially disgusted with John McCain. His descent into the windfall profits bullshit makes me wonder-- who is he, Jimmy Carter? Between this and the absurdity of his green-ness, I’m just…
There are three ways I’m voting for John McCain this fall, and only three:

Vice President Jindal, Vice President Pawlenty, Vice President Sanford.

Anyone not on that list will result in me writing in Thompson/Jindal, or voting Libertarian. I will not vote for amnesty, global warming hysteria, and class envy. Not in a damn Republican. McCain wants to talk about how he was a footsoldier in the Reagan revolution-- yeah, and John Kerry was a soldier, too. Didn’t mean he didn’t turn around and fuck over the troops when he got out. Just like McCain is doing. And hey, both campaigns over-focused on Vietnam.

Hot Air is raving and even wonders aloud if Obama might not be a better choice for Republican voters. And HawkEye sums it up for the whole far right blogosphere: "John McCain’s masquerade as a conservative is over."

Today doesn't look like it's going to be a better day for McCain than yesterday. While today's Times points out that by repeatedly, and disparagingly calling Senator Obama-- who is 47 years old-- "a young man," McCain has injected age into the campaign.

“I admire and respect Senator Obama,” Mr. McCain said, his voice full of sarcasm. “For a young man with very little experience, he’s done very well.”

John Amato over at Crooks and Liars has a video of another senator saying that McCain is too old to run for president. And that senator is someone who knows better than anyone else exactly how ill-fitted McCain would be. That senator is, in fact... John McCain.

[Cross-posted at Down With Tyranny.]