[Vigilanteman]

Agreed. One big winner for the Republican nomination tonight is John McCain, who campaigned tirelessly and despite his insanity on issues like immigration and campaign finance reforem is one of the few who get it on the war on terror. The other is Mitt Romney, who gets it on the war on terror and lacks the baggage and craving for media approval of John McCain. Rudy Guilani can be thrown in as an honorable mention, but he is simply too liberal on social issues to be acceptable to the Republican base.

Allen is gone. Gingrich is yesterday's news. Liberal state governors like Erlich and Pawlenty might have done okay had they not run for re-election in an anti-R year.

But the only high profile candidates left are McCain, Romney and Guilani. Romney is, by far, the best of the lot.

[dfwgator]

I think it will be between Romney and Rudy.

[WOSG]

"One big winner for the Republican nomination tonight is John McCain, who campaigned tirelessly and despite his insanity on issues like immigration and campaign finance reforem is one of the few who get it on the war on terror."

(eyes rolling ...) Bill Kristol, is that you???

McCain, thanks to his bad campaign finance reform, spawned the evil that are the Soro 527s - it gave Democrats a leg up over the Republicans, especially the 'outside group' efforts and independent organizations like the NRA and Christian Coalition.

Thanks to McCain's bad amnesty-that-wont-admit-its-amnesty, we split the GOP and created a negative issue *FOR NO GOOD REASON* - instead of more narrow 'fix the border' which is more popular.

So McCain shares blame in the losses today.

Rudy??? At least Allen went up for election this year ... WHERE WAS RUDY? He let an unknown take on Hillary. He let an underdog take on Spitzer ... A RACE HE COULD HAVE WON.

And so it goes.

Give the guys in the arena a shot.

[goldstategop]

Take note of Sandford. He was re-elected in South Carolina and he's a bona-fide conservative.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

[Ol' Sparky]

If a RINO like McCain is the only real Republican winner of the night, things really are bad.

This disaster will end up being an enduring one if he becomes the GOP standard bearer in 2008. The conservatism will be dead at that point.

[Free as the breeze]

Nah, McCain is an opportunist. He was kissing the Dems tonight.

[JohnnyBrown]

I'll probably be voting McCain in the primaries. He is too liberal in some areas, but he can win.