How About the Conservatives Learning Something from McCain?
This is problematic.
Well the problematic part is true, but not really the main point. That is a result of a problem not the problem itself. I fear that your 2/3rds analysis of the anti-McCain results is perhaps in error. Huckabee’s evangelical supporters LIKE McCain according to more than one poll result. They merely voted FOR Huckabee but not AGAINST McCain. So that 2/3rds you mention really becomes 1/3 at best.
If McCain loses, especially if he picks Huckabee as I want him to do, everyone will have a very good idea of who to blame for the defeat. Hint — It won’t be McCain or Huckabee.
Huckabee’s supporters surely will know precisely who to blame for sinking their candidate, especially if he decides to make an issue out of it. I would. In a NY minute as they say. Misery loving company and all. If I am going down, I be taking someone with me. In a ‘nice’ manner of course but dragging them along, nonetheless.
So no glorious rebuilding of that ‘conservative’ coalition for you I fear. Just ‘real’ conservatives on the sidewalk staring in to the Democratic Restaurant wondering why they can’t get served. EVER. Oh and why the passing evangelicals are still giving them some hard stares.
But on the upside, you probably won’t have to worry about that annoying ‘purity’ thingy anymore. So that’s a good thing, I guess.
