You McCainacs are going to get an abject lesson on where elections are won in Nov. It base plus. Elections are not decided in the middle, they are decided by who best mobilizes their base. You can get all the "moderate" votes you want and still lose if the 10 of millions of self described Conservatives stay home.
This is a 40-40-20 Country. 40R 40L 20I, spitting on the 40% to suck up to the 20% is moronic. But then you McCainbots are too busy screaming your arrogant McCainbot Cult of Personality drivel to actually listen to anyone who know politics.
You all should take a lesson from Karl Rove in 2004. Losing in the latter half of Oct he had Bush move hard right to fire up the Evangelical vote. That won him an election he was losing by trying to be "moderate"
yes they are decided by the middle. That’s why battleground states are so important.
And McCain would be much better with the base than romney, rudy or huckabee. Romney and Rudy would have turned off the evangelicals and Huckabee would have turned off the fiscal conservatives who want less spending.
usually a candidate wins the primary by appealing to the right and moves to the middle for the general. The problem is that weakens the base.
Because mccain won the primary by appealing to the middle all these years, he can actually afford to move to the right and fire up the base as we get closer to november.