Conservative but not modest
Color me puzzled as it relates to the conservative outcry about the emergence of John McCain.
Early exit polls show that, while 75-80% of Huckabee's and Romney's Super Tuesday voters describe themselves as conservative, only 50% of McCain voters describe themselves accordingly. Conservative radio hosts and bloggers will show this as more proof that McCain is unfit to govern.
Funny thing: I thought we were electing a president of the United States, not of a subgroup of the Republican party. (And please, let's not even begin to pretend that self-described conservatives can even agree on what constitutes conservatism these days.)
Four years ago I wrote a column about how the Democratic party is virtually dead as a national entity. Now it seems as though the sickly GOP may need to go through a cleansing and reviving phoenix process, in order to find its wings for a new century.