Will Super Tuesday Be McCain’s Waterloo?
If McCain and Huckabee nose dive on Super Tuesday, a much more interesting Romney-Paul contest may develop..
by James Buchanan
A Reuters article reports “Voters in 24 states make their choices in an unpredictable presidential campaign on Tuesday… On the biggest day of voting ever in a U.S. primary race, candidates in both parties compete on ‘Super Tuesday’ for a huge haul of delegates to this summer’s nominating conventions… 40 percent of the Republican delegates are up for grabs on Tuesday. Georgia is the first state to end voting at 7 p.m. EST, although West Virginia Republicans will make their choices at a convention earlier in the day.”
While there has been much talk about John McCain, there’s a strong chance that Super Tuesday will be McCain’s Waterloo. McCain has been relentlessly attacked by every conservative spokesman from Rush Limbaugh to Ann Coulter. McCain has been called an “anti-conservative” and Ms. Coulter said that she would campaign for Hillary if McCain won the GOP nomination because Hillary would be the less liberal candidate.
Six months ago, the John McCain campaign looked finished. In June of 2007, Senator John McCain tried to shove an Amnesty Bill for 20 million illegal aliens down our throats. Millions of Americans left angry messages for their Senators often screaming at them for this obvious piece of treason. Donations to McCain fell off sharply and most pundits wrote a political obituary for McCain.
Unfortunately, many Americans apparently missed the whole Amnesty-treason episode. The McCain-Kennedy Bill appeared in May and disappeared in June. Anyone on the mailing list for NumbersUSA.com and other patriotic immigration organizations knew all about this. The short duration (just one month) of the Amnesty Bill fight suggests that many Americans missed the whole thing. The mainstream media wasn’t telling the public much useful information (since the liberal media supports an Amnesty). Only a few Internet groups and talk radio hosts sounded the alarm. The Senate deliberately killed the Amnesty Bill before the public outrage could grow any more than it did after just a few weeks.
The “McCain comeback” was a result of (1).public ignorance about the Amnesty Bill (McCain was getting the 34 percent of Republicans, who were not paying attention last June), (2).McCain has run a highly dishonest campaign in which he has repeatedly said that he wants to “secure the borders,” (3).the liberal media’s failure to remind Americans that McCain was for Open Borders and (4).the fact that none of the other political candidates saw McCain as a threat.
In the last few weeks, McCain’s pro-Amnesty background has been brought up by every conservative spokesman with a talk radio show. No sane patriot wants McCain to be the Republican nominee. The election results in Maine show McCain falling to 21 percent as the word spreads about him. Ron Paul came close to McCain with 19 percent and Romney won the state of Maine with 52 percent. Huckabee, who is out of money, plunged to just 6 percent.
With each passing day, right wing talk show hosts have been putting out the alarm about McCain. If his support has plummeted to 21 percent in Maine as of a few days ago, it seems fairly certain Super Tuesday will mark the end of McCain’s career.
With the continuing decline of McCain, most pundits assume that Romney will now become the default winner. Romney however is not a very popular candidate. Every indication so far suggests that people are only supporting Romney reluctantly. Ron Paul has finished second in Nevada and New Orleans and done well in Maine. One recent news story suggests that Ron Paul has a strong chance of winning Washington state. Other stories suggest Ron Paul will likely win Alaska. Unfortunately Paul is a long shot in the most important state California.
The Republican race has been extremely unpredictable so far. No one saw McCain’s rapid rise (and even more rapid fall). The Huckabee campaign appears to have run out of gas. Hopefully, McCain and Huckabee will do poorly on Super Tuesday and not resurface so that a contest between the stiff, non-spontaneous Mitt Romney and the populist candidate Ron Paul will develop.
