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McCain can’t win because the conservative Republicans will not support him.

McCain has been making all sorts of promises to win over conservatives, that he really can’t keep. He promises to make the Bush tax cuts permanent, but the president really has no power to do this. He promises to build the border fence, but he probably couldn’t get that done, either. He promises to keep fighting in Iraq, but he also mentioned benchmarks, the very same thing that he accused Romney of.

McCain’s promises are much like Huckabee’s fair tax promise,
all talk, no action, because in the end, it’s up to the congress.

McCain?s promises are much like Huckabee?s fair tax promise, all talk, no action, because in the end, it?s up to the congress.

Yes, McCain has forgotten he will not be in the Senate to do all these great things. In fact, Obama and Hillary are making the same mistakes. As are the robot sheeple voting for them.

He could win, even without a lot of support from conservatives. He might not accomplish very much, for the reasons you cite. He might even be as bad as people like Ann and Rush seem to think, though I sincerely doubt it. Whether he can or can't win, whether he is or is not nominated, whether Dems win this fall or no, conservatism will remain important and needed by the country.

My honest assessment is that no real conservative can be expected to win this year. McCain might have a shot, a long one. Most likely, the Dems win this year whoever we put up, because seriously divided parties and failing second term presidents are not the stuff wins are generally made of.

Be prepared for it. For losing the presidency even if Romney pulls out the nomination. Or for McCain winning the nomination, and losing in the fall. Or for him winning in the fall. Conservatism is not at stake in any of those outcomes, and neither petulance, nor denial, nor trying to read the liberal half of the republican party out of it, will change that or help in any way.

Realism and sobriety are what I am calling for. Right now I see instead hysteria, histrionics, denial, downright silliness. It is beneath us, and we should get the heck over it --- yesterday.