With Huckabee’s nearly 3-1 win over McCain in Kansas, compared to McCain’s win in say, more liberal Washington state by only a 2 point margin, McCain needs to do the right thing and drop out. His ascension to the #1 position was purely by accident, because of Huckabee and Romney splitting the conservative vote. The Republican base can’t stand him, and a certain segment of them will never vote for him. If he stays in and becomes the Republican nominee, we will have a repeat of 1996, when moderate Bob Dole lost to Clinton. Not only is McCain as liberal as Bob Dole (Dole’s lifetime rating from the American Conservative Union was 82, the exact same as McCain’s), but McCain has deliberately said rude things about conservatives; he’s even more disliked by conservatives than Dole ever was. A friend of mine who used to work in one of McCain’s organizations said he was purged along with another conservative by McCain solely “to get rid of the conservatives.”

The argument that McCain is the only one who can beat Hillary in the polls is meaningless because the polls aren’t any good at tracking votes 6 months down the road. Look what happened to Giuliani’s lead in the polls; he was leading for most of the presidential race until January when he was forced to drop out. We saw in Iowa and now Kansas that evangelicals are a powerful voting block in this election, and they don’t like McCain because of his verbalized disdain for them. Without this large crucial block of voters – who will just sit out instead of showing up, which unfortunately tends to be their pattern more often than not, McCain can’t possibly beat the Democrat candidate. Democrat voters showed up to vote in the primaries like never before. And if Obama is their candidate, that will strip away the independent voters from McCain, his base. It may take a miracle, but here’s praying that McCain will see the writing on the wall and drop out to give the GOP a real candidate they’ll actually support. How can he continue when his core base in the GOP despises him? In Arizona, for example, he didn’t even break 50% of the Republican vote, unlike Romney in Massachusetts or Huckabee in Arkansas. The arrogance.