An echo not a choice in November

It’s not over until it’s over. Given the disasters my men have faced after Lex going all in for them, I’m tempted to throw my support to McCain in sort of a jujitsu endorsement.

It looks like an all uphill climb for Romney at this point. He has the money ($25 of it mine) to hang in there until Super Tues. All of Romney’s money will not off-set the free attention and publicity McCain will get from his adoring press. And it appears that Reps are willing to take the bait and go along like lemmings wherever the press steers them. That ought to send warning signs to any Republican. If the press is for it, ought we not be against it?

Anyway Romney is going to have to sharpen his attacks on McCain – without appearing desperate. That won’t be easy. But I’d continue with the Washington outsider line while linking McCain with Feingold, Kennedy and Lieberman. I’d keep the amnesty bill front and center and note that McCain’s chief advisor on immigration, Juan Hernandez, is a dual citizen Mexican who served on Vicente Fox’s cabinet. This out reach is code for open borders and amnesty. Last you could go after him where he lives – honor. It’s not an honorable thing to dump your sickly wife for a younger, prettier and richer one. That would be a tricky issue. It’s not an honorable thing to distort your opponent’s record – distort is political speak for lie about. George Will called McCain Clintonian for his misrepresentation of Romney’s remarks on Iraq. Nearly every other conservative just said it was a clear distortion – aka lie.

The easy part is finding things to nick McCain up over. The hard part is doing it aggressively enough to gain headway while not looking desperate. Now Giuliani is getting out and supposedly going to endorse McCain. So McCain will have a free shot at 100% of the non-conservative Republicans. Hucksterbee will stay in without a snowball’s chance in hell of winning the nomination because McCain wants him in to strip Conservative votes from Romney. Hucksterbee will continue to attack Romney while giving front-runner McCain a pass – an odd tactic if you were seriously interested in winning.

I’m not willing to say it’s over yet. But it looks we’re headed for a choice between Democrat and Democrat-lite in November.