Conservatism Wins

Here's a little history lesson for the conveniently-forgetful RINOs:

After the Goldwater realignment, moderates or conservatives who ran for president as conservatives won. Nixon never made his 1960 mistake again. Running on a sharply drawn "law and order" platform in 1968, Nixon won. Repeating this approach he charged McGovern in 1972 with supporting "acid, abortion and amnesty" (the latter for Vietnam War deserters), drew a stark line between himself and his opponent and won in a 49-state landslide. Reagan won twice, landslides both. Bush 41 triumphed once as a conservative, and, learning from Dad's 1992 mistake, Bush 43 won twice, albeit by the grace of those chads the first time.) Of the eight elections involved -- 1964, 1968, 1972, 1980, 1984,1988, 2000, 2004 -- nominees running flat out as a conservative won the White House seven times.

This isn't hard to understand.

Put another way, McCain's going to get his keister kicked.