McCain Flames Out

John McCain is toast as a presidential candidate. Ive know that for a long time. The only ones who don't know that yet are McCain himself and the mainstream media who love him and are scratching-their-hair puzzled as to why the rest of America doesn't love him as much as they do.

We're at the point in this never-ending primary season where second tier candidates start falling away because of lack of funds to continue. Jim Gilmore, for example, announced this week that he was dropping out on the Republican side. About time. I never saw a point to his candidacy in the first place. What no one in the press foresaw, however, is that a front-runner like McCain could crash into that "no funds" territory so rapidly and be on the verge of withdrawal. If you haven't paid attention lately, McCain just fired all of his money men and does not apparently even have enough funs to hire a bus to campaign on.

It's easy to diagnose if you're part of the Republican base, as I am. We don't like McCain. Haven't for a long time. Yes, he's solid on the War and we're thankful for that. However, McCain regularly jumps in on the wrong side of issues and aligns himself with the most wrong-headed of liberals. How many bills in the Senate have to be labelled "McCain-some blowhard liberal Senator" for the base to turn on him? Too many, that's how many. Starting with "McCain-Feingold" - that abomination of a bill called campaign finance reform which shredded the Constitution to protect political incumbents - McCain began alienating Rebulicans that he needs to win an election.

Bottom line: his co-sponsorship with Ted Kennedy of the massively ill-conceived secret immigration reform deal (McCain-Kennedy) cooked up in the back rooms of the Senate was the final straw. No recovery. It's over.

McCain, and his petulant allies in the press, are snippy about this arguing that McCain acts on "principle not polls". Bull. That petulant response betrays a liberal bias both in the press and in McCain's candidacy. Who says that the McCain position on immigration is more principled than his opponents in the Republican base? Liberals, that's who. That's crap. And it's whiny crap from a candidate who is done and doesn't yet know it.