MATCH ME, CHENEY: Am I the only one who gets a real Sidney Falco vibe from John McCain these days? Pawning what he perceives as his soul, to be redeemed later. It doesn’t work that way.

Of course, the same criticism could be made of Barack Obama, the Christian who won’t acknowledge that Mary was not pro-choice. I know Protestants keep quoting the Isaiah lines about how God knew the prophet before he was formed in his mother’s womb, but aren’t the Annunciation and Visitation much more obviously pro-life Scriptural moments? I genuinely don’t understand how you get to be a Christian who’s okay with abortion. If you disagree with legal requirements, okay: That’s a case I can understand, although I’d love to know how you recognize the unborn child as a creature protected by morals but not by law. But that is not at all where Obama is, for real.

I don’t reckon it’s where McCain is, either. On judges, if he really has to choose between judicial-restraint guys who’d overturn both Roe and campaign-finance, how could he resist his legacy? I don’t at all get the sense that this man understands the Constitution; nor do I get the sense that he can explain his positions to people who disagree.

I expect I’ll post an election playlist; you can assume that “Goon Squad” is much higher than it should be. Pray to St. Thomas More, St. Rose of Lima, and Dorothy Day.