Why does John McCain hate the GOP? Why does John McCain hate faith-based voters?

Why am I asking these questions?

Because I believe those truths to be self-evident... I got more into the nitty-gritty in my column this week.

I thought it would be interesting to let you also have a sample of what the people are saying... and if the following responses don't send a jolt through the McCain camp - nothing will... which in turn might be just the point I was making... It's hard to ask people to vote for you when you think they are so "g--d-mned" stupid...

So here you go, in their own words... what voters think about McCain:

Good article and I agree. My neighbor is a lobbyist for the mortgage industry in Colorado and he still thinks McCain will be the standard bearer for the GOP and I disagree for the reasons you have articulated.  The reason why McCain won't win is simple. Rush Limbaugh plays parody bits about McCain. How can a person win the GOP primary season if Rush Limbaugh is teasing him on the radio? I think this alone proves how tone deaf McCain really is. - R.Clark

An absolutely correct assessment of John McCain. The word "arrogance" is so appropriate. I differ on one thing: I don't think there is enough time for correction. He does not think there in anything wrong. Remember-arrogance. He is a RINO. - Elsie Stevenson, Houston, Tx

Not only is John McCain adamantly against the 2nd Amendment, but as you state in your article, he has lost touch with the people who voted to put him into office, only to find he has changed to agendasize his own individual agenda and is not that responsive to the will of the people. - CW4_(R) Michael E. Banyacki, USArmy

These days I'm about as cynical toward politics as anyone. I refuse to believe the Republican base can ever be stupid enough to trust McCain as far as you can throw a piano. I am a tiny cog in the Republican Party in Minnesota. I have informed my puppeteers that if McCain, by some miracle, gets the nod, I simply won't lift a finger to help him. I can't imagine anything he can do before 2008 or in this dimension and lifetime that will change that. Most of the time domestically he behaves as if he hates the United States and what makes it special as much as Democrats do. - Steve Malone, Minneapolis, MN

I wonder why the John McCain interview on the MICHAEL REAGAN show during the 2000 primaries is never reprised. He came off as such a lunatic that (Michael Reagan), who had been supporting McCain, declared, after the interview "Well, he just lost my vote."  - J.H.Insley

I certainly hope McCain is finished. I'm a Republican and wouldn't vote for him if my life depended on it. He seems to despise many if not most of his fellow Republicans. He can go you-know-where for all I care. - Sheila M Blanchet, Guilford, CT

I'm a staunch conservative who would almost vote for Hillary (whom I despise) before I would vote for McCain. - John

I am VP for Republican Women in Ascension Parish in Louisiana and John McCain I would NOT campaign for nor vote for McCain. He is a rebel to Republican party and should be a Democrat. - Beulah, Louisiana

Amen to your article. McCain's self-promoting antics and his delusional love affair with the media has produced a burning rage since at least 2000 and his primary battles against W. The irony is that he seems to revel in the title of "maverick," which describes a juvenile or younger bovine who departs from the herd, and thus from the safety it provides with its drovers, and subjects itself to the abundant dangers of surviving the plains and its hungry predators, for which it has no defenses. It would almost be worth it to see McCain get the GOP nomination and then be torn to shreds by the same media he worships (and thinks worships him), simply because he has an "R" after his name. And it would happen; that simple fact is obvious to the the most casual observer, so why not to McCain? This kind of cluelessness is fatal, and we can't afford to have such a numbskull thinking Presidency. Thank you for the heads up to the country.  - Dennis Dilley, Oakland, CA

I could go on, but I think you get the idea... This sampling was only the tip of the tip of the iceberg of the mail I received...