Mitt Romney dropped out, and so, he must surrender our newsticker over there on the right margin>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.
Mitt, we hardly knew ye, but that was your fault, not ours. I wasn't the only one who noticed Mitt gave his best, most impassioned, and sincere speech of the campaign, betraying a love for America and the American ideal, and revealing that he's not made of printed circuits after all.
[Well, not entirely, anyway, although if he were hit by a stray round or a falling girder and revealed as a cyborg, it wouldn't surprise me.]
Mitt did well, and if he'd said "I'll be back" in an Austrian accent, that wouldn't have surprised me either. We're all brought up to think we should want to be president, but the reality's more than a little scary, and I think Rudy and Fred permitted overcomeable reverses to chase them off, too.
Alan Greenspan said of the seven presidents he's known, only Gerald Ford wasn't weird, and of course, Ford backed into it.
But I think Mitt's just weird enough to give it another go. Which leads us to John Insane [McInsane?]:
He gave an ace speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference, which had just been stunned by Romney announcing his withdrawal from the race. The new Republican standard-bearer, perhaps a 7 on the conservative scale, and has done it despite all the force 10s of talk radio [the toy store]. Republicans, being temperate and reasonable people, sorted out their differences with him immediately, cheering him on many points, and McCain while healing his rift with the hard-core, was already appealing to independents and "Reagan Democrats" as well.
So, after Super Tuesday confirmed the writing that was already on the wall, the GOP took all of about about 36 hours to achieve consensus.
As for where the Reagan Democrats may or may not have gone home, it could be months before anything coherent emerges. Things being what they are over there, we could inaugurate a president in 2009 and still have a court case pending about who the rightful nominee was.
It's hard to take that party's EEG right now since Hillary's a 9 and Obama's a 9 1/2 if not a perfect 10. There is little to disagree about---therefore little for the hard core to get exercised about---but the papers tell me there still could be a war for months to come, as the "superdelegates," who aren't selected in the primaries, represent 20% of the total at the convention.
I was of the opinion that Obama has risen like a tsunami, but political genius Karl Rove just said that Obama's best demographic days will be behind him after the end of February. Decisive African American majorities, and caucuses, where he does extremely well as they are attended largely by the hard core.
We shall see. Me, I like Obama too, and was at one of his rallies the other night. [Don't ask.]
I must admit I was unnerved by a messianic current [We'll change not only the nation, but the world!] that would have been out of place even at a Huckabee do, although I appreciated that they vilified neither Hillary nor the Current Occupant, except in nod-nod wink-wink code.
But since I speak Democrat as well as Republican, I understood---so well in fact, that I "passed" as one of Them. Even got a t-shirt: He's Black and I'm Proud!
McCain? I dunno. We're Lukewarm, But He's Hot!
Anyway, he, and we, had a helluva day.
2 comments:
I do not think our biggest worry has yet been raised. Beware The Wrath of 'Cain
Like McCain or not, both the responsible and conservative thing to do is Be Prepared.
My quite logical fear is that should John McCain become convinced that his chance at becoming president is going down in flames, he will not go down alone. He controls the bulk of the party's means to success, and he can use it for good or ill.
The responsible thing to do is not to become too despondent over who is at the top of the ticket but to work like your republic was depending upon you to protect the rest of the ticket.
Conservatives who can't be enthused by McCain can devote their energies to electing particular Congressional or Senate Candidates.
The worst thing is not that a Democrat may win, but that she'll come into office with a super majority in the Senate because sulking conservatives stayed home.
Ace point. But I do think the GOP dodge a bullet in that---IMHO--- the nomination of Romney or Huckabee would have brought far more collateral damage to the party.
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