The Dem Circular Firing Squad is on track and McCain's stock is going up

[PlanetBev]

I'm numb already...please, somebody give me a reason to hope.:scared:

[melody]

1. McCain hugged and kissed old Bushwhack so many times

All that is going to come back to haunt him big time.

[styersc]

2. The only reason to hope is that it will soon be over.

The Democratic Party is over and the Republicans will win the Whitehouse.

Only Democrats could take a field full of superior candidates and through arrogance and stupidity beat each other bloody.

I guess that's "Change".

[PlanetBev]

4. I'm with you...

How could they overlook guys like Clark, Edwards, Richardson, Biden, and Dodd and leave us with this?

[tekisui]

3. McCain is up in MI and FL, both Winner-takes-all states.

Mittens is close behind in MI. Rudy911 is all in, in FL. Rudy911 skipped all the other early states to try for a Winner-take-all boost in FL. He probably won't get it, and will be done.

[Yael]

5. I would love to be able to give you hope

but the way things are going, McCain is going to be a shoe-in.

We need to get our collective shit together and kick Hillary out of contention. Once she isn't relevant any longer the internal attacks will stop.

[mrgorth]

8. Yep.

:(

[Olney Blue]

6. McCain has many enemies in the GOP. Interesting article in WaPo today....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/13/AR2008011303659.html


THE REPUBLICANS
McCain Faces Payback From Old GOP Foes

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), long an antagonist of the GOP establishment, could face a gantlet from his old foes. "That latent hostility is there, and if these groups have a chance to ignite it, it's not going to go away," one adversary said. (By Scott Olson -- Getty Images)

Over the past decade, Sen. John McCain has annoyed, aggravated and nearly destroyed some of the most powerful members of Washington's Republican establishment, creating a list of antagonists including anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist and the vehement Gun Owners of America.

Now, with his victory in the New Hampshire primary putting the Arizonan's quest for the GOP presidential nomination back on track, his old adversaries are mobilizing to keep him out of the White House.

"It is conceivable that he can be nominated because of the system we developed," said David Keene, chairman of the American Conservative Union and a longtime McCain foe. "It's not conceivable that he could come out of this nomination fight or the national convention with the kind of enthusiastic support he is going to need for the general election."

For at least eight years, official Republican Washington has been dominated by what McCain advocates have called President Bush's "Death Star" -- an array of advocacy groups and lobbyists that backed Bush in 2000 and have remained the city's conservative power brokers. Republican politicians with national ambitions genuflect to Keene at his Conservative Political Action Conference. They sign Norquist's pledge not to raise taxes and attend the weekly conservative conclaves over which he presides as the head of Americans for Tax Reform. And they curry favor with religious conservatives such as Ralph Reed, the former head of the Christian Coalition.

McCain has not only declined to offer such gestures -- he's stomped on them.

[PlanetBev]

7. Thanks for posting that, Olney

Politics is so ugly. What the hell drives these guys?

I don't think for one moment it's concern over the country. I just think these people just need power, the same way we need air. They can't live without it.

[Olney Blue]

9. I couldn't agree with you more, PanetBev.