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Now that it’s looking like John McCain will be the Republican candidate for President and their Party has abandoned its principles (he is not a “conservative”) can we declare that the steel-toed, hard-nosed Republican Party has truly become the Democratic Party of yesteryear that typically nominates the ironically-losing “electable”? Or should we, instead, note that John McCain was their last serious candidate beaten by Bush but in losing to him he became the anointed frontrunner, no matter how many people (including yours truly) declared him dead, and therefore perpetuated the Republican Party’s love of Old Glories and “Next Turn”s?

Conundrums. We’ll have to see what happens in the General, but I still think it’s true that the Republican, “Conservative” era might be over, and that doesn’t even have to mean that a Republican loses; McCain winning might well be proof of it.

Nothing more to say tonight. I’ve got a significant amount of studying to do and I am tired. The President’s State of the Union can wait.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, January 29th, 2008 at 8:27 pm and is filed under Outside Retort (Current Affairs).