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I Went To Super Tuesday and All I Got Was This Lousy . . .
Actually, all I got was this lousy headache. Well, that, and the
unwanted sense of the increasingly looming inevitability of a
McCain nomination.
Now hold on just a minute. I'll have everyone know I'm not
suffering from McCain Derangement Syndrome. Not like the
desperate caller I heard just moments ago on C-Span who
wondered if maybe McCain could be disqualified as a
presidential candidate because he wasn't born in the United
States. (He was actually born in the Panama Canal Zone.)
Nice try, buddy. But don't you think that might have come up a
while ago if it was a legitimate disqualifier? I'd say it was all
tongue-in-cheek on the part of the caller, but he sounded as
serious as a heart attack.
Granted, it is a bizarre thing that the candidate who disagrees
with the Republican base on more major issues than any other
is, barring some disaster (or miracle, depending on how you
look at it), apparently going to be the Republican nominee.
How does such a thing happen?
By the way, in the interest of full disclosure, I was a Giuliani
guy from the very beginning. Admittedly, he had his own
problems with the base, but for months he was the national
frontrunner. And then a funny thing happened on the way to
his master plan for victory. He basically sat out all the early
primaries and by the time Florida rolled around, voters from
the retiree state put him into retirement himself.
I'll bet no serious candidate ever does that again.
In the meantime, McCain, who had been written off for dead
back in the summer when his approval ratings languished
around six percent, went to the early primaries, pulled off a
victory in quirky New Hampshire, and came roaring back to
become the party's frontrunner.
How did he do that? Was it Bhutto's assassination, which put
foreign policy back in the spotlight, a subject on which McCain
generally shines? Was it the media's well-known love affair
with him? Was it an inexplicable surge of independent voters
who have also been known to have a peculiar penchant for the
maverick senator? Was it the Huckabee factor, which had the
no-chance-for-nomination governor robbing votes from
Romney? Was it Romney's own problems with flip-flopping,
pandering and negative campaigning?
I don't know, but conservative talk radio has hammered the
guy for weeks on end, all to no avail. Rush Limbaugh has said
he might not vote in the general election if McCain is
nominated. Ann Coulter has said she would vote for Hillary
instead of McCain because she's not as liberal as him. A writer
in the New York Post has actually coined a phrase for people
who would do what Coulter is suggesting: "suicide voters."
Come off it, people! Stop the insanity. Ann, I love you and your
bombastic humor, but if you're serious, it's time for a
psychiatric exam. McCain's not the best we could have done,
but he's not a bug-eyed socialist who wants to make every last
American a dependent of the state. And he's not willing to lose
the war in Iraq. He understands that would be a disaster,
which apparently is beyond the comprehension of either
Hillary or Obama.
If you are a Republican, hold your nose while voting if you
must, but for the sake of the country, don't be a suicide voter.
It would be a decidedly nihilistic and unpatriotic thing to do.
Actually, all I got was this lousy headache. Well, that, and the
unwanted sense of the increasingly looming inevitability of a
McCain nomination.
Now hold on just a minute. I'll have everyone know I'm not
suffering from McCain Derangement Syndrome. Not like the
desperate caller I heard just moments ago on C-Span who
wondered if maybe McCain could be disqualified as a
presidential candidate because he wasn't born in the United
States. (He was actually born in the Panama Canal Zone.)
Nice try, buddy. But don't you think that might have come up a
while ago if it was a legitimate disqualifier? I'd say it was all
tongue-in-cheek on the part of the caller, but he sounded as
serious as a heart attack.
Granted, it is a bizarre thing that the candidate who disagrees
with the Republican base on more major issues than any other
is, barring some disaster (or miracle, depending on how you
look at it), apparently going to be the Republican nominee.
How does such a thing happen?
By the way, in the interest of full disclosure, I was a Giuliani
guy from the very beginning. Admittedly, he had his own
problems with the base, but for months he was the national
frontrunner. And then a funny thing happened on the way to
his master plan for victory. He basically sat out all the early
primaries and by the time Florida rolled around, voters from
the retiree state put him into retirement himself.
I'll bet no serious candidate ever does that again.
In the meantime, McCain, who had been written off for dead
back in the summer when his approval ratings languished
around six percent, went to the early primaries, pulled off a
victory in quirky New Hampshire, and came roaring back to
become the party's frontrunner.
How did he do that? Was it Bhutto's assassination, which put
foreign policy back in the spotlight, a subject on which McCain
generally shines? Was it the media's well-known love affair
with him? Was it an inexplicable surge of independent voters
who have also been known to have a peculiar penchant for the
maverick senator? Was it the Huckabee factor, which had the
no-chance-for-nomination governor robbing votes from
Romney? Was it Romney's own problems with flip-flopping,
pandering and negative campaigning?
I don't know, but conservative talk radio has hammered the
guy for weeks on end, all to no avail. Rush Limbaugh has said
he might not vote in the general election if McCain is
nominated. Ann Coulter has said she would vote for Hillary
instead of McCain because she's not as liberal as him. A writer
in the New York Post has actually coined a phrase for people
who would do what Coulter is suggesting: "suicide voters."
Come off it, people! Stop the insanity. Ann, I love you and your
bombastic humor, but if you're serious, it's time for a
psychiatric exam. McCain's not the best we could have done,
but he's not a bug-eyed socialist who wants to make every last
American a dependent of the state. And he's not willing to lose
the war in Iraq. He understands that would be a disaster,
which apparently is beyond the comprehension of either
Hillary or Obama.
If you are a Republican, hold your nose while voting if you
must, but for the sake of the country, don't be a suicide voter.
It would be a decidedly nihilistic and unpatriotic thing to do.