Right On The Right

The McCain camp, trying to create ties to the Republican blogosphere, has begun a series of conference calls. How come I never get invited to any of these things? Anyways, it's an intelligent political decision but I'm not quite sure if it'll mend ties with Conservatives who are disenchanted with McCain's amnesty plan. From Mary Katharine Ham:

All right, so some would argue that McCain and the bloggers have never had enough of a relationship to qualify the current disagreements as "lovers' quarrels," but the call and the conversation the campaign staff is starting to have is a bit, "baby, come back. You know I've always loved you."

Not that that's a bad thing at all. Bloggers, as the guys on the call noted, will have an impact on the '08 elections, and McCain, despite past missteps needs to start a conversation anew. And, if McCain does win the nomination, even folks who don't love him will want to support him to the best of their ability over the Democratic nominee, for the most part. So, the campaign guys hosted the first of several on-the-record Blogger Bitch-a-thons today (Boss, am I allowed to say that?), which I think is a wise move, indeed.