As I recall, McCain was winning without the Conservative Base, which split between Romney and Huckabee. He will never win in November without that essential Republican group.
It is interesting that McCain won Super Tuesday with 66% of Republicans voting for someone else.
you’ll never win an election without appeal to moderates and independents. mcCain knows exactly what he is doing.
That base is playing a very dangerous game. While the primaries are the time to flex your muscle for a candidate that more matches your ideology, the general is a time to get with your team.
That faction of the team may well finally out themselves as not being really part of the team, but a bunch of all about me folks. And if McCain wins without them, then they have proven they aren't necessary to win. At that point, it's not a matter of whether the glass is half full or empty, but whether you even now have a glass.
But for a 100%er, it's better to be lonely in the woods than working to mold and shape what you've got.
The really bad thing is how the stay-at-homes will impact real conservatives running for office.
The anti-McCains need to come up with a strategy to get the conservatives to the polls--maybe a Vengeance Vote.