John McCain has been a long-time Senator–a legislator. Where's his relevant executive experience?

Perhaps in the Savings & Loan industry?

You certainly have the right to believe the non-politically intense Republican voter will elevate some cross-party endorsing activity as a more motivating issue than the perception respecting foreign policy experience. I happen to believe they will not.

Barring events that lead to a reversal of the decline in civilian and US military deaths in Iraq, by November, I believe Iraq, per se, will decline significantly in relevance to the “regular folk” voting motivations of 2006. However, foreign turmoil and domestic security, in general, will not.

Further, the unethical behaviors and self-serving attitudes that also propelled R-vote defections in 2006, IMO, will not so readily attach to McCain.

No one has tendered other than sparse anecdotal evidence that the primary cross-overing to date has permanent legs.

You may post shills for your favorite candidate, however, I will feel motivated to do likewise.

March 6, 2008, 10:46 am
Obama Aide: Neither Candidate Ready for 3 a.m. Call
By Kate Phillips

As Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton prepares for an afternoon news conference here in Washington, where she is to be surrounded by “military officers,” her campaign has put up a YouTube moment that you can bet will be replayed over and over.
In it, Susan Rice, a foreign policy adviser to Senator Barack Obama, discusses the foreign policy credentials of both Democrats against the tableau of Mrs. Clinton’s 3 a.m. phone call advertisement about who would be best prepared for an international crisis. (While your children are safely asleep.)
“Clinton hasn’t had to answer the phone at three o’clock in the morning and yet she attacked Barack Obama for not being ready,'’ Ms. Rice said. “They’re both not ready to have that 3 a.m. phone call.”