John McCain for President? Only If Rush Limbaugh Says So!

Where do I start? I should start with Rush Limbaugh's refusal to endorse anyone or the fact that 8 years ago McCain won exactly one primary (New Hampshire) and lost the whole thing and now he is a front runner and leads the delegate count. As a conservative republican I am finding myself in a strange position, I have no one to vote for. We have had three candidate casualties in the last few days. Last Friday Fred Thompson dropped out after entering the race late and seeming to lack enthusiasm and making some surprise finishes. Today as of this writing Rudy Guiliani and John Edwards have dropped out of the race ahead of next the influencial Super Tuesday vote next week. That leaves Senators Clinton and Obama on the democrat side and Governors Romney, Huckabee, Senator McCain and Congressman Ron Paul on the Republican side. February 5th should shake out the rest of the race with 29 states, mostly western, having caucuses or primaries.

So as those of us republicans in those 29 states head off to caucus next week I wonder what our republican base is thinking right now. Some would say that th republican base is fractured and that what is left of the Republican side of the race has to unite a party racked by 8 years of President Bush, the war on terror and the war in iraq. The president is so irrelevant now the candidates are distancing themselves from him and he is finding himself, unpopular and leading a party in disarray. On Tuesday night he delivered his constitutionally mandated State of the Union address. While it was broadcast widely as usual, only 24.6 million people watched the address. President Bush, exit stage right, Candidates enter stage left.