People are saying that McCain needs to make a good performance at CPAC in order to calm the conservative base that he hasn’t swayed, despite all the talk on the campaign trail. The problem with that any performance McCain gives at CPAC will be ju…

And some people buy this tranbsparent b.s.

tH E mAC WHO cRIED wOLF.

One time too many.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to the rifle range.

He was already setup to get whatever he wanted before Super Tuesday, and even more so now. He cannot overcome either of the other two, so has zero chance to win. He will only win in the South where he can play on the bigot votes. So there is almost nothing else for him to gain by staying in, yet he will.

I would bet money he is out less than an hour after Mitt drops. That is what is left for him to gain – getting the Mormon out.

Voidseeker on February 6, 2008 at 5:53 PM

What’s left for him to gain is the leverage to make McCain select him as his VP. If Romney drops out now, Huck is gone in an instant, Mac doesn’t need him any more.

Actually YOU give Huck too much credit. He does hate Romney personally, but other than that he is just a political prostitute with no natural leanings. He will do whatever it takes to win as big of a prize as he can.

Igor R. on February 6, 2008 at 5:45 PM

Sorry, but I have to disagree. The hatred is not just personal, his anti-Mormon actions did not start during the primaries.

He was already setup to get whatever he wanted before Super Tuesday, and even more so now. He cannot overcome either of the other two, so has zero chance to win. He will only win in the South where he can play on the bigot votes. So there is almost nothing else for him to gain by staying in, yet he will.

I would bet money he is out less than an hour after Mitt drops. That is what is left for him to gain – getting the Mormon out.

He knows he has no chance to win the nomination but he’ll be damned before he allows a Mormon to get it. And he will run his whole campaign that was as well – just not right in peoples’ faces.

Huck will stay in as long as Romney is in, regardless of what McCain has or has not offered. It is his duty as Teh TrUe ChRiStiAn LeAdEr ya know.

Voidseeker on February 6, 2008 at 5:42 PM

Actually YOU give Huck too much credit. He does hate Romney personally, but other than that he is just a political prostitute with no natural leanings. He will do whatever it takes to win as big of a prize as he can.

csdeven on February 6, 2008 at 4:21 PM

You give Huck too much credit. He is in this not to win, but to ensure his bigotry is secure.

He knows he has no chance to win the nomination but he’ll be damned before he allows a Mormon to get it. And he will run his whole campaign that was as well – just not right in peoples’ faces.

Huck will stay in as long as Romney is in, regardless of what McCain has or has not offered. It is his duty as Teh TrUe ChRiStiAn LeAdEr ya know.

-McCain will HAVE to make Huck his VP, because Huck has already said he wants the job and Huck will have the delegates McCain needs to win the magic number.

-McCain WILL NOT win the general election no matter what he does and you can see it by comparing the number of votes in the Dem primaries vs. the Pubby primaries.

-Whoever wins the general WILL legalize the illegals. The illegals WILL bring their families over. This WILL result in the permanent (meaning the lifetimes of anyone reading this) Democratic majority.

Now enjoy the rest of the primary season.

That’s assuming he already has the support of his base. McCain has shown the base nothing but contempt, so that support is lacking. Not a good situation for a standard-bearer to be in.

… he fatally wounds himself in terms of Republican turnout in the general.

He’s arguably done that already.

In any case, Dean’s basic point is correct: Republicans like myself are not for the wooing. Whatever McCain says, or doesn’t say, is of no consequence to us. We don’t trust him, and we’re not going to start trusting him in the next few months.

So McCain doesn’t need to worry about voters like me. He needs to worry about how he’ll replace voters like me. And since our replacements will be independents or Democrats, he should indeed tact to the left. (Which is where he wants to go anyway.)

Of course, that old codger will be up against Obama, so it doesn’t really matter what he does. The American people will never pick old and crabby over young and hopeful.

I am praying he uses CPAC as a Sister Souljah moment.

It would just make his divorce with conservatism official.

It might wake up the almost half of you who will pull the lever for him in November as to who he really is.

“I’ll go to the goddamned Center if they want me to go to the goddamned Center.”

Mr. Bingley on February 6, 2008 at 3:03 PM

Of course, that would involve a move to the right.

Its in McCain’s best interest to move fast on this rather than wait !
William Amos on February 6, 2008 at 3:43 PM

Wrong. If he doesn’t pick HuckaBigot, he will know McLiar lied to him and he will withdrawal and all his support goes to Mitt.

Huck is a disgusting vile gibot and is only in this for his own power. The minute he realizes what the rest of us already know, it’ll be too late and HuckaFool will have given the presidency to the dems.

Steele/Bolton anyone? anyone?

PappaMac on February 6, 2008 at 3:43 PM

I don’t know much about Steele but he has been cheerleading for McCain recently on Fox News.

Insisting that McCain make a mad dash to the right to soothe bruised feelings of the past is insane.

How insulting is this little comment. As if Juan McCain was right and the conservatives are petulant little children who have “bruised” feelings. I, for one, wouldn’t describe the rift between the McCain faction of the GOP and the conservative faction as “bruised feelings.” McCain and the RINOs won, the party is in ashes. All that needs to happen now is sit back, vote Democrat, and endure four years of utter misery……

All because McCain was able to build a coalition of liberals to counter the conservative influence.

Sen. Tom Coburn, one of the most conservative senators in the senate, who vehemently opposed the amnesty bill, believes McCain when he says that he will secure the border.

Complete7 on February 6, 2008 at 3:05 PM

Tom Coburn is one of my Senators and I’ve always supported him but not this time and never again. McCain went way off the reservation after his loss in 2000. In 2004 he tried to jump parties and link up with Hanoi John Kerry. He’s been the Democrats fan boy on socialist bill after bill after bill and still people are acting like he is a conservative???????? The Democrats run him out front on all the stuff too nasty for even them and he laps it up like the new punk in the prison yard. You all do realize that your nominee is the one chosen for you by the liberal media and funded by George Soros don’t you? You all do realize he doesn’t have a chance in hell of winning don’t you? That’s why every liberal media source in the country endorsed him.

The GOP is dead, infiltrated and infested by undercover Democrats and folks who think government should represent corporations not citizens. It’s time for a new party.

Its in McCain’s best interest to move fast on this rather than wait !

William Amos on February 6, 2008 at 3:43 PM

Agreed. He ought to take Fred. Huck can be bought off with some appropriate department like Secretary of Agriculture or Human and Health services.

Yeah, Vietnam logic: We had to destroy the party in order to save the party.

It’ll be a classic.

Ali-Bubba on February 6, 2008 at 3:18 PM

That link was friggin’ hilarious! Haha…

doubleplusundead on February 6, 2008 at 3:48 PM

Exactly right.