Nonsense! You live in Virginia and know very well that when we went to vote on February 12th he had already been declared the presumtive nominee on January 29th after receiving 25.5% of the vote from only 7 states.
The state "central committee" had changed the rules at some point between 1-1-08 and 2-12-08, but no one knew exactly who, when or how it happened.
Obviously we in Virginia weren’t responsible, but there was a series of primaries, and somehow McCain managed to win the contest.
And the only argument I have against those who are arguing with me on this is that it was NOT democrats crossing over to vote Republican — the democrats had a hot primary of their own that was contested way past the end of ours.
McCain didn’t get a majority. That means that we should have been able to elect a conservative, because McCain had a minority of the vote leaving a majority not voting for him.
If everybody who didn’t want McCain had agreed on another candidate, we would have had another candidate.
But we didn’t. McCain had more people who supported him than any other individual candidate. And that is the fault of the GOP voters. It wasn’t McCain’s fault — he didn’t force us all to split our votes. It wasn’t the democrats — they didn’t cross over to vote McCain, nor did they force us to split our votes.