I grew up one of six children. If you had brothers and/or sisters, you know how sibling rivalry works. You fight. You're competitive and jealous. But you can be that way. You're family. Just watch what happens, though, when someone outside the clan picks on on one of your own. YOU can do that but they can't. You are the only person allowed to pick on your kid brother. When the bully down the street picks on him, it's time to throw down.

That's how it is in politics as well.

I'm just sick about the fact that John McCain is going to be the Republican nominee. He benefitted from the fact that there were too many conservatives running in the beginning. The right wing of the party couldn't find a standardbearer. That left the moderate weasel constituency all to McCain.

John Mccain is in the mold of honorable losers Gerald Ford and Bob Dole. He has little chance of winning. The Democrats are going to unite behind their nominee regardless of who it is and how bruising the fight for the nomination is the rest of the way. John Mccain's hope is that Clinton and Obama spend all of their money to beat each other. But if Mccain thinks his centrist strategy will attract enough Democrats and independents to offset the loss of millions of Conservatives who will stay home, he is foolish.

The only thing that might force the base of the GOP to come out and vote would be if the Democrats are dumb enough to attack McCain personally with the kind of cheap shots that they employed in 2004 against George W. Allot of angry Conservatives showed up at the polls with a vengeance on that election day. Thos same people stayed home two years later.

Right now, we Conservatives are disappointed and stung by the fact that the sibling who has picked on us all these years is getting his way. So we'll take our shots. But watch out when the bully down the street decides to pick on brother John.