Mark McKinnon, an aide to John McCain says he wiill quit McCains campaign if Barak Obama wins the Democrat nomination. McKinnon is a former Democrat who probably feels quite at home with the "maverick" (liberal) McCain. He cannot, however stay with McCain while he finds Obama a much more attractive candidate. McKinnon , a Democrat turned Republican was also President Bush’s chief media adviser in 2004.
McKinnon is typical of those who McCain has aligned himself with over the years, and yet he still has managed to be the presumtive winner of the Republican nomination. Even after his co-authoring of such legislation as McCain-Feingold, McCain-Lieberman, and McCain-Kennedy as well as heading the gang of fourteen, along with Lindsey Graham, to attempt to stop the confirmation of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court, he is still the leading Republican in the race for the White House. What does that say for the party of Goldwater and Reagan?
For those real constitutional Republicans ( I prefer that to "conservatives" ), it looks like the end of the Republican party. It will probably take a decade at least to re-establish the party with those who understand the Constitution, and even that is wishful thinking. With a seeming majorty of the currrent party backing McCain, it may take a lot longer, and a disastrous four or eight years of Democrats in power may just be what the Republican party needs to get the ball rolling. Because it may take another eight years of liberal leadership to make a change, I for one do not worry too much about an Obama or Hillary administration.
We lived through four years of Jimmy Carter and eight years of Clinton I, so I guess we can make it through a Clinton II or Obama. One thing for sure, John McCain will not win in November. He does not have the backing of the core of the Republican party that he needs, and a lot of us will just sit at home and watch the returns instead of voting.