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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