Republican presidential wannabe John McCain is losing steam according to the latest polls.

Conservatives don’t consider him conservative and have been angry with him over McCain-Feingold, the Gang of 14 Senate filibuster deal, and now his support of the Immigration Reform bill.

From reports I’ve read his donations are drying up and he spent a lot of money early on instead of waiting until later in the campaign.

I’ve always considered McCain to be a rather hot tempered man, even though he speaks softly when discussing what was done to him as a POW in Vietnam.

No one actually knows where he stands and a lot of people still remember he was a member of the Keating Five.

He has never been popular with the conservative base and in a primary it’s the conservative base that counts, just as in a Democratic primary the candidates must play to the left and then make a sharp turn to the middle after the nomination.

Sooner or later he’ll see the writing on the wall and will drop out of the race.

As angry as his constituents in Arizona are about the immigration bill he’ll be lucky to retain his Senate seat when it comes up for re-election, and he may very well just retire.