Who are committing political suicide:
The depressing GOP field that has paved a path to victory for McCain also gave surprising wins last night to Huckabee in Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee, as well as in his home state of Arkansas. Still, McCain has so radicalized key conservatives that some have vowed to turn themselves into suicide voters next November by pulling the lever for Hillary Rodham Clinton over him.
This last-minute blitz against McCain by Limbaugh and others, however, comes far too late. But if those conservatives sit out the general election, they will help Democrats make history by electing either the first black president or the first female president next November.
First, as I have been saying since 2003, Hillary Rodham-Clinton will be president in 2008. It was inevitable. Second, as Peggy Noonan correctly ascertained, it is George Bush the Younger who murdered the Republican party by continually pushing leftward on everything but taxes. I wrote about the need for Republicans to resist his demand for expanded government since my very first political column, written on September 14th, 2001. The Republican Party elite and the conservative commentariat conspired in that murder, first by betraying their principles and repeatedly defending Bush in the name of the war, then by embracing deeply non-conservative candidates such as Giuliani, Romney and McCain.
So, stay home in good conscience, Republicans. Because the Democratic candidate is going to win anyhow, and if you don’t stay home and McCain performs reasonably well, you will never get your party back from the Dem-Lites who now control it.