The Ticket already has expressed its wonderment about John McCain's excursion this week to Iowa -- a state that isn't all that critical to his White House hopes to begin with and where the Barack Obama tilt seems fairly pronounced.

We assumed McCain and his handlers had their reasons, and more than likely they were very good ones. Still, in the wake of the attention that a McCain Q & A at the Des Moines Register is getting, we can't help but wonder if he now rues his stop in th