It’s not a poll, it’s a futures market. Collectively, political watchers have written off Fred. Regarding McCain, no one has forgotten McCain-Kennedy. However, he has said he learned from its failure and now favors an enforcement first approach. People are waking up to the fact that none of the candidates’ records are any better than his, and he brings three very important qualities to the table: he will ensure total victory in Iraq, he will take on pork spending by Democrats and Republicans alike - the issue that killed the GOP in 2006 - and perhaps of most immediate importance, he would be the best insurance against another Clinton presidency.
We all can agree that Fred Thompson, once in office, would make the best president, the only problem is he has to get elected first, and as it turns out, he makes a pretty lousy candidate.
It’s total nonsense to say McCain couldn’t beat a Democrat in the general election. He has long been the most popular politician in either party, has the highest positives and lowest negatives of any candidate, and is the only Republican to consistently beat all of the Democrats in a head to head match-up.
“It’s not a poll, it’s a futures market.”
More important, it’s not a vote count.
To expect McCain to get even half the conservative vote is
expecting a lot.
I will draw my last breath before I let the “political watchers” tell me how to think.