Obamma does not have a chance of winning. The support and recent endorsements were done to seal the deal with the black vote for the foreseeable future. Some of them were beginning to gravitate to the GOP, or at least threaten to do so. This move by Kennedy will stop that progress that we were making, and shove us all the way to the back of the bus. It will be three cycles before we can even think of regrouping, and this is how we started the last thirty year rule by the dems.
At some point, you will have to admit that McCain was nothing more than a media inspiration and creation. There never was any real support for him in the party and what happened in Florida will not be repeated in the general. In fact, even without delegates and no real reason to go to the polls, the Dems had a fantastic turnout.
You can't beat that with McCain. You might put up a fair fight with Romney, but I suspect we will lose regardless, by a large margin. A margin that will be so sobering, that it will silence the GOP for weeks.
I have seen this coming for more than three years, and I will not be celebrating the fact that I was right. I will be mourning the GOP. I will be looking for a offshoot party to take it's place, because you can't do much with rubble and a person as conservative as myself, will have a hard time joining with GOP moderates and if it is hard for me, Lord knows how hard it will be for those who inhabit this forum..
I say this as a life long Repub who voted for Nixon. I have never witnessed the destruction of a once viable political party, but I think that has now changed.
Vote for your McCain. I figured him out over twenty years ago and he's No Good. I will not vote for him if he is the nominee, and I will protest vote, or simply stay home, depending on what else is on the ballot. I have never done that before. But there is always a first time for everything. Unfortunately for the moderates in the party, there are hundreds of thousands just like me and I'm much more reasoned then most Conservatives. In fact, they often call me a RINO. Maybe I am. After this debacle.
I could have sworn in one of your posts over a year ago you said you weren't a conservative. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
It is amazing that a guy for whom there was never any real support but for a few in the party (and I agree with you, btw), is already poised to win the nomination in a race in which until this moment, many were predicting would end in a brokered convention. McCain, with the help of the mainstream media (unfortunatley they aren't quite lame yet) and a few Republican supporters, was able to get the cards to fall his way.