YEAH, PARANOIA IS THE RIGHT WORD

Joe Conason in Salon writes "For McCain to reach beyond the right-wing gatekeepers will be difficult, because rank-and-file conservative activists' suspicion of McCain sometimes approaches paranoia."

Right on cue, Mark Steyn obliges:

I'd say McCain definitely papered the house. I arrived at CPAC just before Mitt began to speak and was struck by the number of young student-ish types milling about in McCain T-shirts. While my minder went off to check her coat, I was loafing around the lobby, heard a conversation in Spanish, and noticed it was three of the McCain T-shirted students. Which struck me as odd: you don't hear a lot of Spanish at CPAC.