So your kid wants to smoke pot. Do something to stop that desire.

Maybe remove all available cash, transportation, and contact with friends (through restraining orders if necessary).

Maybe find out his dealer’s name, and drop a dime on the bastard, with public announcement that anyone giving your kid pot will get the same shaft up their ass. Publish this proclamation as a letter to the editor in the local paper. Word will get around.

Maybe bust the kid up side the head a few times until he gets the message; or better yet, have a friend or relative do it for you. Kids who don’t listen to parents often listen to other adults, especially ones who can inflict memorable smacks.

Maybe let the cops bust him, and tell him he’s an asshole for doing this to himself. Letter to the editor time again.

Maybe give him a nonrefundable bus ticket to Wyoming, and wish him the best with his chosen life, with the warning that if you see him again you’ll call the cops to enforce the restraining order you’re taking out on him.

Now apply this to McCain.
The premise that we can’t stop McCain from being a RINO is arguably wrong.

We have pockets that can be opened to McCain only for promises, public and private, that we get what we pay for.

We can shame him when he goes off track, far beyond a letter to the editor. We got Alito as a Supreme because GWB’s RINO first nomination (what was her name?) was repudiated in a very public manner. Same can be done with McCain.

The NRA can provide teaching moments, using irrefutable data from the US government, about the futility of gun control schemes. Again, done in public, this will advance the cause of our individual rights regarding McCain and his possible actions.

Let McCain see what a hostile minority of his own party can do to his public approval ratings, when he goes against conservative principles. If he won’t listen to us the first time, kill a few of his pet bills until he starts to listen.

Let the Dems eat his lunch and give him wedgies until he realizes who his actual base should be. Tell him in public that his lack of support of conservatism is simply being reciprocated.

And send him home to Arizona after 4 years if he doesn’t learn anything.

Change the premise that McCain is only capable of drifting left, and then act to make that more desirable new premise happen.