McCain and Obama Differ even as They Both Reject Gay Marriage

If Elected ... - Hopefuls Differ as They Reject Gay Marriage - Series - NYTimes.com

This is a fairly good read... and pretty balanced (from what I know about the candidates positions) [This Post Continues after the jump...]

What Obama and McCain won’t tell you

Very interesting...

It's going to get harder
It's going to take longer
Not everyone should own a home
Borrowers share some of the blame (not just the predatory lenders)
Your home isn't worth what you think it is
Taxes will eventually go up
Learn about how money works before you complain
.. and more

The Truth: What Obama and McCain won’t tell you about your money | I Will Teach You To Be Rich [This Post Continues after the jump...]

John McCain and Gays

Interesting... but not really surprising to me...

It's a myth that all Republicans are homophobic...

GayPatriot » An Emerging Pattern with John McCain and Gays [This Post Continues after the jump...]

Factcheck.org: Sliming Palin

Well, this is not surprising .
There so disparate to find SOMETHING bad about Sara Palin that they are grasping at staws....

Factcheck.org: Sliming Palin | Newsweek Politics: Campaign 2008 | Newsweek.com [This Post Continues after the jump...]

Avoiding a Lieberman Disaster

Avoiding a Lieberman Disaster by Robert D. Novak on Creators.com - A Syndicate Of Talent

I'm one that kind-of-sort-of thinks picking Lieberman as VP would be a good idea. Obama "talks" about unity and coming together, but McCain/Lieberman would actually be DOING it. Bringing both parties (or at least parts of them) together to some extent. I have no idea if it would work, but on paper it would undermine a large part of Obama's playbook.

But this idea about Secretary of State is also good.... probably better... [This Post Continues after the jump...]

McCains report more than $100,000 in credit card debt

I wonder if this is really a balance they have left on the credit cards or if this is just a typical monthly balance.

But it still doesn't look good.. the democrat is "debt free" while the republican is loaded down pretty good.

TheHill.com - McCains report more than $100,000 in credit card debt [This Post Continues after the jump...]

Limbaugh is McCain’s most valuable asset?

This is hilarious.. I've been wondering how the conservative talk radio hosts (Limbaugh, Hannity, Coulter) were going to spin their insanely harsh opposition to McCain after he becomes the nominee. Disagreeing with him is one thing, they did it with a viciousness typically reserved for anyone named "Clinton" that it made me sick.

Here's Rush's spin, I wonder if the others will follow suit. Or actually campaign against McCain like Coulter said she would do.

CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - Limbaugh: I’m McCain’s ‘most valuable asset’ « - Blogs from CNN.com [This Post Continues after the jump...]

Can McCain Win? - YES!

Polls show McCain beats Clinton but looses to Obama, but all within the statistical margin of error. So the popular vote is evenly split right now.

However, Electoral College analysis show McCain has a good chance at winning in November.

Getting to 270 - WSJ.com [This Post Continues after the jump...]

McCain for President. Or we're really screwed.

I like this just for the bumbersticker slogan..

Confederate Yankee: Biting the Bullet: "McCain for President. Or we're really screwed." [This Post Continues after the jump...]

McCain's Team America

How McCain Beats the Dem Nominee: The Team America Strategy - Townhall.com - Scott Ott

Here's TEAM AMERICA that can win in November (at least according to Scott Ott, whoever he is..)

• John McCain - President and "Commander in Chief"
• Fred Thompson - Vice President and "Constitutional conscience of the administration"
• Mitt Romney - Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
• Rudy Giuliani - Director of the Department of Homeland Security
• Mike Huckabee - Senate Chaplain (obviously a joke, he must not like the guy...) Personally I think Huckabee would be a good choice for IRS Director...

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Super Tuesday Results

A Running Tally of Super Tuesday Results.

Huckabee show early strenght
Huckabee Wins West Virginia GOP Contest in Second Round, With Help From McCain
and a possible McCain alliance..

Stocks Plunge on Election Day
Not directly related, but does show that this election is "about the Economy, Stupid"

Obama claims delegate lead
But the Media shill paints it as a Clinton victory.

McCain Didn’t Close the Deal (but still can)
McCain speaks at CPAC Thursday and must do well.

Five reasons Hillary should be worried
I still think I'm more worried about her WINNING than she is about LOOSING. [This Post Continues after the jump...]

John McCain is Letting me Down

John's McCain continued assertion that Mitt Romney once said he support secret "time tables" for withdrawal of troops from Iraq is making me sick. He's better than this and he needs to find a way out of it.

He's also not answering questions about the Economy.

He's losing it.. "Romey ran business and Sometimes people loose their Jobs" (paraphrased)

If Huckabee was electable, I might actually support him! He just mentioned the 10th Amendment and I bet people don't even know what that is.

CNN is doing a horrible job. Several of their questions were purposely set up to make the candidates defend or tear down Bush or Reagan, but never Clinton or Carter. When you ask a question like that, all you're going to get is a sound and dance. It's not good debate moderating.

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This was posted in the comments, but I thought it was good enough to bring up here. The Problem with McCain. Tai-Pan does a lot better job of going into details.

McCain also has not address why he Voted against the Bush Tax Cuts but want to make them permanent. Talk about a flip-flop. He apparently said they "helped the rich" too much then, but now that's either a good thing, or it was never true.

Despite all this, I still can't bring myself to support Romney. I think we need someone like John McCain if we are going to win the election and get anything done afterwards. [This Post Continues after the jump...]

McCain Wins Florida - and Other News

Well, CNN was first to call it for McCain... at least that I saw.
McCain wins Florida, CNN projects - CNN.com

FoxNews still says it's too close to call But the actually story headline says McCain wins... So FoxNews doesn't have the website act together...
** Update - Now FoxNews Main page is calling McCain the winner.

This is interesting.... Giuliani expected to endorse McCain

** UPDATE **

Exit Poll Info HERE [This Post Continues after the jump...]

McCain Wins South Carolina

Wow, I actually liked McCain back when the press declared him dead.. I even sent him money, something I've hardly ever done before and never done this early in a campaign. I've given to the Republicans in general for use in the election, but I've never really paid much attention to the primaries. Maybe because Florida always seemed to have no say in who would win.

But this year, I've supported McCain from the start, and he's doing Great. Still a long way to go, but there is hope.

You Decide 08! » McCain Defeats Huckabee, Rest of Pack in South Carolina Republican Primary [This Post Continues after the jump...]

John McCain in the Home Stretch - The Glenn and Helen Show

If you're into PODcasts, this is great....

Instapundit.com - The Glenn and Helen Show: John McCain in the Home Stretch [This Post Continues after the jump...]

Lieberman to endorse McCain

Lieberman to endorse McCain - John McCain News- msnbc.com

Now this IS interesting.... I wonder how a McCain/Liberman ticket would go over....

I think it would be great, assuming the two of them get along and have enough in common to be a team. But talk about an administration that could unite the country...

I don't see how the Democrats could field anything that would compete with this. Of course Liberman would have to "sell his soul" to run on a Republican ticket and I'm not sure anyone would be willing to do that.

But what if McCain does well in the primaries, but doesn't win. Depending on who wins on both the Republicans and Democrat sides, an independent McCain/Lieberman ticket (or even Lieberman/McCain) would be possible.

Talk about shaking things up!!

Of course, I'm probably interested just because it would shake things up... Like Perot, there was no way I really wanted him to win or even come close, but it was great to see the shake up.... but this is different, this is possible.

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Should We Be Afraid of President McCain ?

Reason Magazine - Be Afraid of President McCain

It's 3am and I'm trying to stay awake... reading this probably wasn't my best idea of the night.

If I'm understanding this right, it says that McCain takes "National Duty" over "personal freedoms" and that we should be afraid of this. I think there needs to be a balance between the two and McCain errors on the side of Duty over Freedom, but that's no worse than erroring on the side of Freedom, and few if any of us get it perfectly balanced all the time.

So, after reading this, I'm not really "afraid" of President McCain. [This Post Continues after the jump...]

McCain rejects CPAC invite

Well This doesn't look so good...

McCain rejects CPAC invite - Nation/Politics - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper [This Post Continues after the jump...]