New York Times Desperate To Sink McCain

The New York Times is going way overboard in its crusade to mend relations between John McCain and conservatives. Now the Times is arguing that he's not even eligible to run for president because he was born in the Panama Canal Zone.

The question has nagged at the parents of Americans born outside the continental United States for generations: Dare their children aspire to grow up and become president? In the case of Senator John McCain of Arizona, the issue is becoming more than a matter of parental daydreaming.

Mr. McCain’s likely nomination as the Republican candidate for president and the happenstance of his birth in the Panama Canal Zone in 1936 are reviving a musty debate that has surfaced periodically since the founders first set quill to parchment and declared that only a “natural-born citizen” can hold the nation’s highest office.

If this keeps up, the Times might drive even Ann Coulter to cast a sympathy vote for McCain.