Because, apparently, he doesn’t really want to win this election.

Just as I went off-air on the Say Anything Show tonight (podcast copy of tonight’s show will be available on the feed) I heard a news update from the McCain campaign that had John making the case for amnesty for illegal immigrants.

He said something about the fact that we don’t have “12 million handcuffs.”

Now, I know that John McCain and most of the conservative base (including me) don’t see eye-to-eye on this issue.  May conservatives (not me) have made their peace with that and are going to vote for him anyway.  But I have to wonder, why on earth would he bring that issue up on the eve of the election?

I can give him credit for unabashedly sticking to his principles, but from a tactical perspective this is political suicide.