John McCain is getting killed!   Killed by the people who want him to be the GOP nominee the most.

The Democrats and the left in America have made it clear that McCain is their choice to be the GOP nominee.  That position was point out in graphic detail this week. 

What the left stunningly doesn't get is that their support is killing McCain.  It is helping remind the GOP faithful of just how much they do not want him to be their guy.

Bill Clinton killed McCain when he said his wife and John are buddies!  "She (Hillary) and John McCain are very close," Clinton said. "They always laugh that if they wound up being the nominees of their party, it would be the most civilized election in American history, and they're afraid they'd put the voters to sleep because they like and respect each other."

Um, that's not good.  Matter of fact that is very, very bad for McCain.  The GOP wants to go toe to toe with the one person they view as the worst choice for America and they sure as heck don't want it to be civil.   The GOP base views Hillary as the single biggest threat to the American standard of life.

Likewise the New York Times, in doing its level best to promote the Democratic party, opted to endorse McCain for President.

Said the Times in it's somewhat tepid endorsement of McCain: "Mr. McCain stood up for the humane treatment of prisoners and for a ban on torture.  He has been a staunch advocate of campaign finance reform, working with Senator Russ Feingold, among the most liberal of Democrats, on groundbreaking legislation, just as he worked with Senator Edward Kennedy on immigration reform.... it makes him the best choice for the party’s presidential nomination."

Let's do the rundown.  The Time says....

- Being soft on prisoners of war who have information about attacks that could kill Americans is a good thing. McCain agrees.  The GOP does not.

- Campaign finance reform is good.  The GOP says (and is dead right) that it has been an absolute disaster.

- Working with Russ Feingold is good.  Uh, no.

- Working with Teddy is good.  Uh, double no.

- Immigration reform as proposed by McCain (amnesty and nothing short of it) was good.  The GOP says no amnesty. 

This is the kind of love no Republican could want.  The left has to come to realize that in it's zeal to promote McCain they are helping with his impending demise.

McCain could still be the GOP nominee (though, honestly I would be surprised at this point if Romney doesn't win) and if he is he will have alot of explaining to do the Times when he back tracks in the general election from those positions. 

If he doesn't then he cannot win the primary and if he choses to go soft on Hillary in the general he will lose the general election.

McCain might want to be respected by the left but not at the expense of becoming a pariah on the right.