Point.

…and scares hell outta me, too.

What do the Players see, that we cannot?

Why have people dropped out, or declined, who would have been viable candidates …one of whom, I swear, would have been the next POTUS?

Huge forces are in play, and the stakes are control of the world’s only superpower.

I think we forget that little detail sometimes. Think what the ring of power means to a man, any man. And shudder.

Remember, also, that McCain was winning in all the polls until the financial collapse, which came very late in the game. That’s what finally put Obama over the top.

I would not have voted for him in ’08 (nor contributed to his campaign), and was planning to leave the top of the ticket blank (I would have voted for Hilary over McCain out of pure spite, but the Dem’s decided to run the untried, untested, unremarkable Light Bringer instead) …

…except for McCain’s unexpected and wonderful out-of-right-field VP choice. I got on board.

But Gov. Palin was too little, too late, and entirely too mismanaged (entirely due to the McCain campaign’s equally entirely expected failure to execute).

We lost. The years since then have been an unmitigated disaster for the nation …the only bright spot was the Tea Party.

This time the GOP appears determined to – again – run someone based on some unserviceable belief in the trope of the importance of a candidate’s “electability”: to wit, a northeastern Beltway insider that will do almost as little to excite the base than McCain did.

Because, apparently, that worked so well last time?

Brilliant.

Oh, I’m going to vote for the sob …purely as an ABO …rather than plan on leaving the ballot blank. He’s got that from me, at least: he’s not McCain. Whoo-hoo.

But with little hope it will mean anything on November 3 …

…for the trope of his “electability” is unfounded. The man has been running since 2007, and he’s at a whopping 23% of the party. Jeezus.

He’s going to be absolutely killed by the Obama machine with the Bain stuff, with the class war rhetoric, with the utterly vacant resonance that the man has exhibited with the GOP base. They’ve been prepping for him since 2008 for gawd’s sake: they, at least, see his glass jaw.

We don’t want him you know. It should be obvious, but we don’t trust him to be anything but the second coming of the country-club Rockefeller branch of the GOP.

Remember them? – They were the GOP that were perfectly content to play second fiddle to the Democrats for a half century or so. Whose main purpose was to go along to get along …and keep the elites in power, and the serfs in their place.

They’re baaaaack.

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Even if by some miracle he wins, the conservative movement will have lost this battle, and will take some time to recover.

Hope you’re good with that. Thanks a million.

Oh …and that Whig Moment? – It’s coming. Count on it.

I’ll shut up now. My betters have put me in my place.

For now.

P.S.–When asked the other night what Ron Paul’s chances were to be the Republican nominee, Brit Hume quipped that Rue Paul (the black drag queen) had more of a chance than Ron Paul.

I know what I don’t want: another four years of Obama.

Has anyone checked to see if Soros is funding Ron Paul or some of the other noisy spoilers in the Republican race?