To Embrace McCain

I think we are all catching our breath, trying to understand how this trainwreck happened. How did we end up with the one Republican candidate least likely to unite the party? Most of us simply don't know what we're going to do in November.

How did it happen?

I think it started with Fred Thompson's reluctance... And then his inability to shed the "lazy" monicer.

Of course, Mike Huckabee happened. Obviously, Chuck Norris had more influence on the Huckabee sophisticates than Michelle Malkin, Laura Ingraham, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, and the entire staff at The National Review... combined!

Who knew?

But you have to hand it to Huckabee... This squirrelly little guy from Arkansas, who never had a chance at the nomination... Who cleverly grabbed the Evangelicals and torpedoed perhaps the one Republican that could have united the party... Successfully defeating Romney because he didn't try to run the most liberal state in the nation as the reincarnation of Lester Maddox.

And Mitt... A little too stiff... A little too slow to attack the liberal record of McCain.

And just- who are - these McCain supporters? The irascible curmudgeon, liberal-rearend -kissing constituency?

Conservatives are left with no good options.

We rally to McCain and we become the Republican version of the Democrat Black voter... who toes the line and never realizes promises from our party. And McCain will lose, anyway.

But left will be a Party that knows it can count on us no matter who they nominate.

I think McCain will get the Huckabee voters... Their candidate has been slobbering all over McCain since the race began. But the Romney conservatives? They're the thinkers, the true conservatives... And we will be harder to convince.