Please don't shoot the messenger. It's not I, but dozens of conservative columnists and radio hosts - beginning with that sterling spirit Rush Limbaugh - who are piling on John McCain in a rugger scrum. Ann Coulter went as far as to say that Hillary was less liberal than McCain. I never said that she had mentioned the traitor rumours, but that, as far as I am concerned, is more than disgusting enough. I am not a conservative myself, not in the American meaning of the term, and my main interest in the election is in the increasing likelihood that Wade vs.Roe might be reversed - a decision that would sound like thunder through the world, if it happened. If it turns out that fanatical conservatives in America have let through a Dem candidate who would indubitably return SCOTUS to its ultra-liberal past, I will personally feel like hanging Limbaugh, Coulter and all their legions with piano wire.