Apologies for the panic-inducing title, I just wanted start out with a bang…
John McCain
proved Saturday that Republicans might forgive and forget everything:
supporting a doomed war (Iraq), opposing the party's top goal
(deporting brown people), and an offensively normal blond blogger daughter. (It's
also apparently no big deal that the man will be older than Nostradamus
by 2016.) And while only a few hours earlier, Mitt Romney had
established himself as the man to beat, having won 51% of the Nevada
caucus vote, he was soon overshadowed by McCain's upset victory in
South Carolina, a state evangelical Governor Mike Huckabee had been
long favored to win.
Former Clinton guru Dick Morris sent out a great quote in his daily e-mail this morning:
“The biggest loser in South Carolina was Rudy
Giuliani. He now must face a resurgent McCain in Florida who steals his
votes away. Rudy is a bit like the guy who went away to college and
came home to find that some other guy had stolen his girl.”
Ouch. But then again, who’d steal Judy Nathan?
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