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Seeing as McCain's your boy, that should make you happy.

This would be relevant if the election was this Tuesday.

The reason the Democratic primary is so heated and painfully long is because, in short, it is the general election. No way McCain wins. No way republicans win.

Did you read this post?

GOP Strategists: Republican Presidential Candidate is going to win in November.

Unprecedented in the history of American politics. If Clinton was the nominee, the Republicans would never make such a bold prediction.

I read this earlier. It is a joke. The GOP is clearly delusional. Yes, McCain is better than the other knuckleheads they have managed to amass but he is not exactly a strong candidate. He just happened to float to the top of the cesspool.

Case in point, my father-in-law is about as Republican as they come and he lives in AZ. He refuses to vote for McCain. Not because of any idealogical differences, but because he thinks McCain is an idiot. He can't bring himself to vote for Obama (yet) but he figures he will just stay home. His neighbor is voting for Barr if he gets on the ballot. These are not isolated sentiments. McCain isn't even polling at 50% in his home state.

He is polling close right now because a)he is still enjoying a post nomination bounce b) the dems are still duking it out and beating each other up c)no one has been paying much attention to McCain and d) Obama, the dem nominee (yes) is still a bit of an unknown quantity.

This won't last - this is the high point for McCain. He is going to get a shellacing in Nov - and yes, I would be saying the same thing if Hillary or even Edwards had won the dem nomination. His shellacing will be all the worse because of Obama.

Whistling past the graveyard does not a symphony make...

My interpretation of this is that it is a bit of psychological warfare to rile up all those obsessed with Clinton one more time before the final shoe drops, in the hope that her backers will keep supporting a fight to the convention.

Looks like it worked for at least one of you loonies...

(A hint for you, gotalife, you're being played!)

Riiiiiight. From the guys who had THE MATH in 2006. I laughed almost at hard as that Politico story you're peeing your pants about as I did at this post.

And oh yeah, I laughed out loud, long and hard at both.

So what's it gonna be, Gottie, hang around here and predict doom and gloom until November, or man up and help make your worst fears wrong? If we win, you'll have been on the right side of history. If we lose, your "toldjas" will be twice as sweet for not having been part of the problem.

Its really that simple.

Dear Goatlife: READ "Republican Strategists say..."

What would you expect them to say? "McCain doesn't has a snowball's chance?"

The Siamese twins, Bush/McCan't, are going to be buried.

Furthermore, Goatlife:
We Baby Boomers have seen it all before.

Barack's Bugs Bunny is going to run circles around your Elmer Fudd. Oops. Already has.

Go McCain! Screw Roe v. Wade! Bomb bomb bomb Iran! Enough Welfare moms! $10/gallon gas!
What else is on your platform, idiot?

Anyone who thinks there is any hope for McCain is obviously drinking the spiked Cool Aid. For the McCain-Bush marriage to not even be able to draw a crowd in this obviously Republican stronghold where I live shows how badly the Party brand has been decimated by the Bush Administration. Now, along comes the old maverick, John McCain, and he gets comfortable to park his Straight-Talk Express and now is sucking it up to the very person who sponsored the "Black Baby" ad and who continues to muck the Republicans for years to come. Amazing and more so about McCain who obviously sold his soul to the Devil. I wrote in John McCain in 2000 and 2004, but will never vote for him because he has lost his soul. Sad to say, he is no maverick, he is just the usual political hack who will do anyuthing to win. Sad to see. I am giving, working and voting for Barak because he offers redemption for our country after the 8 long years of nightmares caused by the Bush cabal.

If Republicains don't want to come out to vote, how are you gonna stop 'em?

Hi from one PF fan to another.

Tear down the wall (of ignorance and intolerance).

Very clever! Also: If a republican screams in a convention hall, does he make a sound?

Bill Clinton said that.

Maybe if someone got Hillary a puppy this would all be over.

Awkward is teh shrub's middle name.
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Oh, never mind - "scaled back", not "cancelled".

The standard story would be that they're moving from the convention center to private homes so they can spend more time with their families.

Except that you're wrong.

The Houston Chronicle this morning had a story headlined:

"The Cancer that is Clinton."

She's fucked herself completely. She said this 4 times now and no one is letting her off this time. She's had the benefit of about 2000 doubts and she just pushed it one doubt too far.

She's through, done, over, outta here - stat.

From Ben Smith:

"This isn't the first time Clinton has invoked Bobby Kennedy's assassination as part of an argument about the length of the primary process. On March 6 she told Time :

I think people have short memories. Primary contests used to last a lot longer. We all remember the great tragedy of Bobby Kennedy being assassinated in June in L.A. My husband didn't wrap up the nomination in 1992 until June, also in California. Having a primary contest go through June is nothing particularly unusual. We will see how it unfolds as we go forward over the next three to four months."

You lost.

He is right and you are wrong.

So much for unity.