As the writer says later, “He is often conservative, but he is certainly not part of the conservative movement, and would never qualify as one of the vaunted “true conservatives” in the eyes of the movement’s luminaries. The base has to let this go. McCain won the nomination fair and square, and McCain is going to do things his own way.”
Reminding the base of this just as he is starting to be competitive is NOT a good idea.
I thought it was an excellent idea, assuming as is likely that the whole purpose of the article is to help Obama. He knows what he is doing, more or less, so he agitates on the issue, hoping to irritate pro-life voters into staying home or voting for a third party in protest, while hoping to scare pro-abortion voters into bringing three or four generations of dead ancestors in to vote for Obama.