“”The only other part of your post I have difficulty with:
“In closing, anyone who says we have to immediately unite behind Senator McCain is lying.”
That’s not really so much a lie as an opinion.””
It seems to me to be tied in to the final comment “”And anyone who says in the present tense that Senator McCain “is the nominee”—Rush Limbaugh for example—is lying.””
They are not making an accurate statement, at the very least.
MCCAIN IS THE FRONT RUNNER, NOT THE WINNER!!!!!!
HE IS NOT THE NOMINEE, HE ONLY HAS ABOUT HALF THE DELEGATES NEEDED TO BE THE NOMINEE!
He might call himself the presumptive nominee, but, at the moment, he is not ‘the nominee’.
And really, telling us that we have to unite behind him is more of an order that just an opinion, because they’re telling US what to do, or how to behave.
Until now, Romney and Huckabee have been splitting the conservative vote, and the anti-McCain vote, and I’m sure either one would have done better with the other one out, but now that one is out, it only makes sense to wait at least a little bit longer and see what happens.
Surely the most counterproductive thing would be for both to drop out at once, when McCain didn’t even get 50% in his home state.
“Surely the most counterproductive thing would be for both to drop out at once, when McCain didn’t even get 50% in his home state.”
Good point.