[Yosemitest]

And y'all still don't understand why conservatives won't support McCain???

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

To this point, about two out of every three primary and caucus participants have voted against him<. If the Democrats and independents some states permit to crash the Grand Old Party were factored out, his standing in the Republican base would be even less impressive

Yup. Complete and absolute electoral annihilation, dead ahead.

Thanks, "moderates."

Thanks heaps and heaps and heaps.

[DanielRedfoot]

Flame away!!

John McCain is an idiot with a resume.

The founders would cringe at the state of this mess.

Every time I calm down and think I will actually Cast my Vote for McCain, he opens his mouth and I recoil again.
And he is not even running at this point....

[Stepan12]

And y'all still don't understand why conservatives won't support McCain???

Brit Hume did a report on how McCain trashed Conservatives again to get the Spanish vote.

He won't stop in that.

[TigersEye]

McCain is a conniving little weasel.

[lentulusgracchus]

What's interesting, indeed grimly fascinating, is, how did this guy climb to the nomination? Last August he had nothing, literally nothing. He was dead even with Fred Thompson, who hadn't even declared yet, in campaign cash (zero); he was taking taxicabs to "campaign events".

So who made McCain the king?

The answer has to be in that comment about "independents" and Democrats crossing over to push him forward in the early northern-state primaries. Those states usually vote Democratic, but here they are picking a Republican nominee.

Anyone else see a problem with that?

Like the author, I foresee a Democrat landslide (unless Obama's the nominee), carefully engineered over the last six or seven years by Dems in media and in Congress -- primarily the Clintons and their congressional Mephistophilis, Rahm Emanuel.

Which is what Rush and friends are trying to engineer with crossover voting in Democratic primaries (with credit to Markos Moulitsas of The Daily Kos, for popularizing the crossover-to-screw-with-them idea back during the Michigan primary).

[lexusppd]

The part McCarthy leaves out is the damage done to America if either of the other 2 win. This idea of my way or the highway that many Conservatives have is both wrong headed and dangerous. Helping McCain to win and then trying to push him right or even trying to replace him in 2012 is far far more sensible then caving in and heading for the caves for the next 4-8 years.

[stockpirate]

This is soooooo true.

We really are screwed, unless of course God should see fit to replace McCain....

[TADSLOS]

Go here and understand why McCain is a huge proponent of the League of Democracies:

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

[MBB1984]

We will end up with two leftists running for President. I believe given that choice, the American people will eventually choose the democrat. The silver lining is that we should be able to save the Republican party and lead the fight against a leftist administration. If McCain were to win the GOP would be complicit in promoting a leftist agenda.

[LadyNavyVet]

“We don’t need a Baghdad strategy; we need a global war strategy — or, at the very least, a regional one. Victory is not an Iraqi “democracy”; it is an America safe from Islamic terror.”

Preach it, Brother Andrew, Amen!

[Just A Nobody]

Indeed, in 1999, against the tide of conservative (and much other sensible) opposition, he tried to push the Clinton administration into a ground war in Kosovo, despite the absence of any vital American interests. He thought it would enhance our image in the world to show solidarity with Muslims — never mind that these Muslims included anti-Western fundamentalists.

John McCain armed Kosovo Islamic terrorists
"Even in 1998 when we had problems with Milosevic, McCain did everything that we asked of him to the benefit of the Albanian people, including arming the KLA"

The Albanians collected one million dollars for the presidential campaign of this senator.

...the first thing McCain said to him when he entered the hotel in Manhatten on January 22: "Joe, I saw your people in Michigan, and in South Carolina and in New Hampshire", from which this lobbyist deduced that all Americans of Albanian background will be voting for the senator from Arizona.

...the Albanian American Civic League awarded him the "Balkan Award for Peace" a year and a half ago, and the initiative was the proposed Senate resolution - which McCain wrote - in which thanks is extended to the Albanians for "saving all the Jews who lived in Albania or who sought shelter there during the Nazi Holocaust".