John McCain - Safely on 3rd Base, Ready to Run Home

Hey, Yogi, it's over. It may only be the top of the 9th, but the RINOs are up by fifteen runs and Conservative Republicans have nobody left on the bench. You can stick a fork in this one. It's done.

I'm just trying to decide if I should stick around for the last couple of innings or head for the exit now so I can beat the traffic out of the parking lot. John McCain, the human equivalent of the goat-cursed Cubs, is going to the World Series of politics. Don't ask me how that happened. The last I knew, Mitt (there's a good baseball name) and Huckabee were still in the game. I guess I missed an important play during my last trip to the John.

No big whoop to me, really, although McCain never has shown me much aside from a worrisome tendency to consort with Democrats. Nevertheless, he'll get my vote in November, if I don't have something more important to do on election night like washing my hair. I wonder if he knows how many folks like me will give him the nod simply because they can't vote for Monica Lewinski's ex-boyfriend's wife. And, Barack Hussein Obama? As a Cubbie's fan would say, "Fuggit about it."

The thing is I'm not some bleacher bum who'll be in the stands no matter who is playing. It's not a matter of conservative angst so much as ennui. It's been hard for this conservative to find much of anyone or anything exciting in the Republican primary process from the get-go. Oh, there were a couple of players who showed promise early on, but they fanned the ball in their first few at bats and were unceremoniously sent back down to the Minors.

The whole Fred Thompson draft thing was good sport for awhile. Out of all the players, I liked Fred the best and still do. Fred is Reaganesque and, in my opinion, he was the GOP's best shot at winning in '08. The problem with Thompson came down to bad coaching and spending entirely too much time warming up in the bullpen. When he finally got into the game, he didn't have seem to have any strikes left in him. Like all the rest, Fred lasted only a couple of innings before pulling himself out of the lineup and saying, "Put McCain up on the mound."

Does Thompson, or Romney, or Huckabee, or anyone really think McCain can win it for Republicans? It's hard to say. I sometimes wonder if they (like all the others who have thrown down their gloves and walked off the field) figure this is the Democrats' year to win and they don't want to be the losing pitcher when that happens. Or, not. Maybe, they just had something more important to do than attend the next primary - like wash their hair.