A little late--but here is an excellent Candidade Compass

Well the Potomac Primary was last night. McCain swept the three jurisdictions--taking all delegates. Obama swept as well, but delegates in the Democrat primaries are proportional. Obama has taken the lead in the delegate count, but Texas, Ohio, and Pennsylvania are strong Clinton areas--she could still pull it out...plus there are the "SuperDelegates". My favorite site to watch the elections is Electoral-Vote.com--he is a little left-leaning, but his analysis is pretty good.

As for me, I voted for Romney to send a message to McCain that he must work hard for the support of the conservative vote.

Meanwhile, a friend of my sister Jodi (Charissa) has found a great Electoral Compass. I think it is well worth the time (35 questions). It gives you your position in all the issues and in each of twelve major issue areas.

No surprise here for me...to the right of all major candidates economically and as conservative as any on the social.

Mitt's Out

Well, so much for posting why I supported him for the Chesapeake primary. I still intend to cast a protest vote against McCain and will mark my ballot for a real conservative. Now that Romney is out, my vote may go to Hunter or Thompson. It will not go to the old man--I hope he gets the message so that I can support him heartily in November.

Yeah--and pigs might fly too...

Now more than ever I fear that the Dems may just win (we will never win by being Democrat-lite. ARE YOU LISTENING, JOHN???)

So I await the old man's speech at CPAC--we shall see...

Not McCain Either

I wrote this in response to a dear friend's post (The Right-Wing Liberal). DJ is an intelligent and reasoned individual whom I respect immensely--however, I do not share his view on supporting McCain in the run up to the Chesapeake Primary. I have several problems with McCain which I address in this post. I will post my reasons for supporting Romney next. Meanwhile--here we go:

I have kept quiet and watched. Now I must say something. You do realize that it is not the conservative base which is choosing McCain, don’t you?McCain has only won 3 of his 12 states by more than 50%(CT, NY, and NJ–all blue state BY FAR), as compared to Romney who has won 6 of his 11 states (WY, NV, ME, CO, MA, and UT–4 reds).

McCain has won only 6 of his 12 by 10 or more points (AZ, CT, DE, IL, NJ, and NY–again VERY blue except AZ, his home state), while Romney has won 10 out of his 11 states by 10 or more points (WY, NV, ME, AK, CO, MA, MN, MT, ND, UT–VERY red except MA (home state), ME, and MN).

Both have 23 1st or 2nd place finishes, but Romney was within 10 points in 7 of his 12 second-place states (IA, GA, WV, NH, FL, CA, and MO) and within 5 points in four (GA, WV, FL, MO). McCain was within 10 points in only 5 of his 11 second-place states (MI, MA, AL, GA, TN) and within five in three (Al, GA, TN).

At this point I am hoping to keep this RINO out of nomination–perhaps in a brokered convention, we can get a real conservative for our nominee. McCain certainly is not it. He is wrong on Guantanamo, wrong on “torture”, wrong on immigration (the largest threat to the US equal to our efforts overseas–I am NOT willing to concede this just because he is right on the WBK war), wrong on the border fence, wrong on amnesty, wrong on English as our official language, wrong on taxes, wrong on stem cell research, wrong on free speech, wrong on ANWR, wrong on energy policy, wrong on global warming, wrong on SC Justices (voted to confirm Ginsburg yet was a member of the Gang of 14), wrong on class warfare (”I voted against the tax cuts because of the disproportional amount that went to the wealthiest Americans”–the wealthy in this case are TAXPAYERS! Sound familiar–directly out of the Dem playbook), and wrong on supporting business (McCain has attacked pharmaceutical companies as “bad guys” who are using corrupt political influence to profit at the expense of the little guy–sound familiar? It’s Edwards-Clinton-Obama-speak).

DJ–won’t you join me in voting against this RINO in hopes that in a brokered convention we can support a real conservative (It probably wouldn’t take 103 ballots (1924 Dem convention)…but a currently unnamed candidate or even a former candidate (ie Hunter, Thompson) could be put into nomination from the floor in a brokered convention. It is time for the Reagan conservatives to rise up and take back the party).