This is astonishing:

LOWRY: If you don't mind, I want to ask you a domestic policy question, a straight talk question, if you will. In retrospect, was it a mistake for you to vote against the Bush tax cuts?

MCCAIN: No, because I had significant tax cuts, and there was restraint of spending included in my proposal. I saw no restraint in spending. We presided over the greatest increase in the size of government since the Great Society. Spending went completely out of control. It's still out of control. Wasteful earmark spending is a disgrace, and it caused us to alienate our Republican base.

Real fiscal conservatives understand that tax relief is a good in and of itself, generating economic growth and keeping the government's grubby hands off more of our money. John McCain doesn't.

Spending is a real problem, but to tie spending to tax cuts is nothing more than a liberal ploy to keep taxes high. Why do you think Nancy Pelosi rushed to institute PAYGO rules as her first order of business in the House?

Since Ronald Reagan, lower taxes have been the glue that have held the modern Republican party together. What other tax cuts would McCain have deferred? The Reagan tax cuts? The recent patch to the AMT -- which hits New Hampshire especially hard?

To nominate a candidate who would jettison this unifying principle would represent an profound and permanent change for the worse for the Republican party.

New Hampshire must vote no.