McCain Ain’t It!

Ok, the MSM is having an orgasm that McCain is going to run for President in 2008. Like… this is a surprise???

Give me a break! The man has been running for President since, well, before the year 2000!

But he won’t win the Republican nomination.

Why?

Because the base sees him for what he really is and not as he would like us see him.
McCain is a lot of things. A conservative he is not. I can’t even fathom how one can look at McCain’s record and come to the conclusion that he is a conservative.

Yes, conservatives would like an articulate candidate. But, we want an articulate candidate without barbed wire for a personality. McCain is far too rough, and bristly, for most conservatives. Those, not of the conservative mindset, might think Conservative are set on charging, hell bent for leather, into any situation, ready to fight. But, that is not the case. We are passionate about our beliefs and we are passionate about out country. But, we want a well-reasoned, articulate candidate, who is solid, and uncompromising on conservative issues. We want no more “compassionate conservatives”.

At the moment, conservatives have no leader… at least no leader that I can identify. I don’t know whom that leader will ultimately turn out to be… but McCain it ain’t!

Now add, to all the above, the definite lack of love for McCain in the South and the GOP has a liability on their hands, not a winner.

Back in 2000, McCain “dissed” my home state of South Carolina, and he “dissed” the flag of out ancestors… and we have not forgotten, nor will we. We have very long memories here in my South. This is the Southland where dueling to the death, over a slight, was accepted practice and was not outlawed in the state of South Carolina (my home state) until the 1960’s. My Grandfather (not my Great Grandfather… my GRANDFATHER… killed a man in a duel!) Well, to be honest, it was more a gunfight than a duel. But they did square off in the middle of the street and fire at one another with handguns! So, as the romantic that I am, I will claim that as a duel!

It is often said that Southerners will vote for a Southerner for President over anyone else. That is not necessarily true. For instance, McCain is from the great state of Arizona. Now, Arizona was a part of the Confederacy during the great war of Northern Aggression. Arizona seceded from the Union on February 14th of 1861. She fought among confederate troops.

Even though McCain is from Arizona he has yet to gain the favor of the Southern voter. I don’t think he ever will.

At this point in time, I don’t see a GOP candidate Southerners can support. Many Southerners have left the GOP and signed up with the Southern Party and/or the Constitution Party. Many Southerners who can no longer abide the Democrat party’s continued trek to the left have pulled out of that party and registered as Independents. They still hold the Republican Party responsible for the Civil War and those horrible years after the war laughingly called “Reconstruction”. (I TOLD you we have LONG memories!)

So, whom will the South support for President? I would love to pontificate here and be able to point to some candidate, even an unknown, as the person the South will support. But the plain truth is… I can’t!

The next six months or so are going to be interesting to watch as the Dems try to refrain from committing political suicide and the Republicans try to regain their regal roost as the majority party in the Congress.

So, I’ll close this post as I began it. McCain will not be the Republican candidate for President in 2008.

Longstreet