Oh, that’s absolutely right - no question about it. I share the disdain for McCain, and would be very concerned that a person with his well-known emotional instability was leading the country during a time of war.

The irony, though, is that, once Giuliani was eliminated, McCain was probably the strongest general election candidate the Rs could nominate. His position on illegal immigration may enable him to pick up as large a percentage of the Hispanic vote as Bush did in 2000 and 2004, which is a big, big factor. It becomes especially important if the Ds are dumb enough to nominate Hillary, given that that will produce a very dampened turnout by African Americans, who the Clintons royally pissed off with their race-baiting campaigns in Nevada and South Carolina, a tactic that they have continued since.

You and I will just have to disagree about the balance of bias in the news media, which is fine.

Hook ‘em!!!

I agree with you that Huckabee doesn’t have a chance. However, you must admit that last night’s caucuses were pretty much an expression of buyer’s remorse and a slap in the face to the McCain campaign. The conservative base resents and fears McCain more than Scipio’s recurring, cold sweat inducing nightmare of an all white defensive backfield.

I side with Woody on the fact that the liberal media card is overplayed. It’s a highly competive market and anything with a muddy face will get play. As I typed that, I cringed a little at the thought of Matt Lauer, Katy Couric and Wolf Blitzer/Talon Fire/Stormy Nails … whatever his name really is.

Super –
I hope your bet pays out in a crown of gold and rubies. However, considering that you placed your bet with a Clinton supporter, you might be paid out in either hugs or stolen union dues.

Sailor –
I hope someone is considering taking your children away for voting Nader. I know, it didn’t matter because you were submerged in democrats, but anyone who votes for a man that refuses to get a driver’s license deserves to be flogged with a meretricious bag of gas, scum and blitzing wolves.

Really? Actually, about a month ago I was saying that Giuliani was likely the GOP’s strongest general election candidate (which is still true), and I hoped that his strategy of skipping Iowa and NH would work because if it did, the importance of those two pissant states would be forever diminished in the electoral process, which would be great for the country. However, I also speculated that the strategy would not work, which it didn’t. You ought to work on those reading comprehension skills.

As for Huckabee, he is dead, he just doesn’t want to admit it yet. He may even continue to pick off little caucus states here and there as the campaign wears on, and probably has a chance here in Texas, where GOP voters have an unusually high level of disdain for McCain.

But the math simply does not work for him, and never has. There’s just no way for him to get to a majority under all but a single scenario. That single hope is that Romney, who hates Huckabee (and the felling is mutual) gets to the convention and pledges his delegates to Huckster. You will note that Romney merely suspended his campaign thursday - he did not end it. So, if he chooses to do so, he will still be able to control his delegates (almost 300 of them) at the convention.

Now, if Huckabee were to win every remaining primary, he might - depending on his margin of victory in proportional states, which would have to be huge - MIGHT be able to creep to within 300 delegates of McCain. And if all the remaining states were South of the Mason/Dixon line, he might stand a tick of a chance. But they aren’t, and he doesn’t.

Sweet justice that Obama is now crucifying her in the very states that the Carville-McAuliffe Strategy left for dead 16 years ago (which of course happens to be about 2/3 of the lot). I put in a call to the fat lady after Iowa, when Terry Mac boasted to the NY Times about Clinton’s eventual nomination, “I feel better about our chances now than I ever have”.

I laid down my money that night with some Clinton tool, at 5-1.