[End Times Crusader]

I don’t think we need the fringe voters with McCain. As proven in New Hampshire he is perfectly capable of pulling in enough conservative Democrat and Independent voters to offset any losses from the extreme right.

[MNJohnnie]

You got about 20% of the Republican vote in NH. Most of those McCain voters are Democrats in everything but name. In polls just days before the election they were planning on voting for Obama. They only switched to voting in the Repub contest because all the pre Election polls said Obama was winning in a walk while the GOP race in NH was close. Given those same voters a choice between Democrat and Democrat lite McCain in a General Election, most will not vote for McCain.

Nice try at whistling pass the McCain graveyard but you cannot win an Election as a Republican without the Conservative base. McCain would lose Va-Oh-Fla and Co because those closely balanced states require the candidate to turn out the solidly Christan conservative vote to win. McCain cannot do that. His opportunists swing with the breezy political record will cause a good chunk of the Conservative base to stay home in Nov 2008. Why vote for a Republican who will be a Democrat in everything but name in his policy agenda?

You are confusing national likability polls with election results. Elections are won in the States due to the Electoral College, they are not won by just who is the most likable candidate. McCain may do well in terms of votes, he cannot win on the state by state board facing the GOP in Nov 2008