[warsaw44]

For the life of me I will never understand how McCain ended up as the Republican candidate. Never.

[Calvin Locke]

Huckabee preyed on the fears of evangelicals of a "Mormon" in Iowa and points South, the crossover voters of Democrats, and the LSM's lovefest with the anti-Republican, McCain.

Throw in Fred Thompson's indecisiveness, and McCain came out on top.