McCain Sends Arnold

That's his surrogate at the Log Cabin Republican convention - something Bush never did to my knowledge. McCain has said he'll meet with LCR's leadership. If you want a sign that Rove's bigotry may not define the GOP in this election cycle, this is a small, slender reed of hope. McCain should support some kind of civil union for gay couples. He'd bring a lot of moderate Republicans with him if he dropped the total, blanket hostility to legal protection for gay relationships that the national GOP now upholds. More from the convention here.