Though this election has been anything but predictable it is looking more and more likely that the GOP nominee is going to be John McCain. Though super tuesday probably won't give McCain all the delegates he needs, it might just give him such a lead that he won't have to worry about anyone catching up to him. And the GOP has no one to blame but themselves for this.
We've abandoned conservative principles, and have gone to a candidate that has done the same. McCain was a fairly conservative Senator until his defeat in the 2000 Presidential nomination, after that rejection by the voters he flirted with leaving the Republican party. After all how dare the American voters reject the great John McCain. To make his disdain for President Bush known he moved steadily to the left to vote against President Bush on key issues such as taxes, Gitmo, stem cells, judges, and anything else he can think to do to infuriate conservatives.
We're more concerned with electability than we are in who we elect. This pleases the liberal wing of the GOP to no end. The old Rockefeller Republicans despise conservatives, but they feel they had no choice but to go along with their platform in order to keep the party in power, while their own faction was reduced to almost nothing in Washington D.C. now they have their man, a hawk who can get the votes of national security conservatives, but is liberal on just about anything else.
In truth a lot of McCains lurch to the left has been fueled by the media. Like most politicians McCain has a big ego and liked the good press he was getting, and in order to get more he kept doing things that would win their approval. I can't help but wonder how much the New York Times will like him if he goes from being candidate McCain to President McCain? After all the press rather liked Senator Packwood until they no longer needed him.
A McCain candidacy, or Presidency, would set the GOP back thirty years. After all his only selling point to conservatives is that he isn't Hillary. That's it, that's all he has to offer. If he's counting on fear and loathing of Senator Clinton to get him elected he's most likely going to be disappointed.
Moderate Republicans are hoping that a McCain presidency will bring their views back into prominence, and they hope it will put conservatives out in the cold. And as far as McCain and his supporters are concerned that's where conservatives belong. I mean, dare us conservatives to actually care about social issues, to view life as something that begins at conception, that taxes should be kept low to help the economy, how dare we want immigration controlled and the border secured.
If the choice in November is Hillary and McCain, then that's not much of a choice at all. McCain is a bad choice, and most likely he's not the most electable. Conservatives need to realize this before they begin to follow the leader, and follow him right to the nomination in St Paul.
