McCain's Nomination To Lose

This is the front page of Real Clear Politics that lists the results for Super Tuesday. The story goes like this on the GOP side: McCain held serve, Huckabee outperformed expectations, and Romney underperformed. Unfortunately, Romney was unable to clear 30% in any primary that wasn't a home state. I hate to say I told you so, but I did.

Link time!

• Preview of what lies ahead for the Republican side.


• I really liked this one, also from Powerline. It talks about the nannification of the state. Really interesting analysis.


• This is as close as you'll get to a concession speech from my man, Hugh Hewitt.


• From Mark Steyn over at NRO, talking about the southern anti-Mormon vote.


• Did you notice how Romney wins all the caucus votes? Some more about that here.

I would get some more from additional sources, but I'm not too excited to read more about how the party is moving away from the direction that I'd like it to go in. In spite of what occurred last night, it is a really great thing be able to go and cast my ballot and take part in the democratic process.


I did find this video very interesting. Don't even listen to the audio because that's not the point. Turn the video on and look at the supporters behind the candidates. On the McCain side you have his mother (considering he's in his early 70s...she's older), his wife, Senator Lieberman, and several others. Then when it cuts to the Obama speech, what is the average age of the people sitting behind him? 20 something right? I am clueless as to how McCain is going to connect with young-to-middle-aged voters the way Obama is going to be able to. Even Hillary has a better chance at that than McCain. Hugh says it on his site, but the reason we need to support whoever the GOP nominee ends up being is because of the war and 6 supreme court justices who are over the age of 68.

I'm afraid that even knowing those things still makes it hard for me to rally to his cause the way I would have with Mitt. I had a brief chat with a friend last night and it really feels like the voice of the American people is just not yearning for the right things. Historically, when that has happened, judgments tend to come about and people get reminded of what things are really important. We might be on the downturn of that cycle right now. There are a lot of things looming that we can't really be sure of, namely, the economy and terror abroad.

I read not too long ago an article that was talking about new businesses and how sometimes those ones that start with little end up more successful than ones with plenty of resources at their disposal. The reason being that companies with little money typically are more responsive because with little money to waste, they have to adjust quickly to setbacks and obstacles. A business with money to spare might waste too much time and resources on a sinking strategy simply because the need to be responsive is not as great. I feel like that can explain a little bit the success of the Huckabee campaign and the failure of the Romney campaign to gain any traction. Romney probably outspent Huckabee about 10:1, but they produced almost the exact same results. He had a very tough time reaching anybody who didn't already have a rooting interest in his candidacy. In other words, he couldn't convince anybody on the margin, let alone those who opposed him from the outset.