Hugh Hewitt starts a "dead pool" on John McCain's presidential campaign Hewitt, a Mitt Romney supporter, writes, "The entrant who comes closest to predicting the date that John McCain officially takes his faltering jalopy of a campaign off the road will win an autographed (and personalized!) copy of “A Mormon in the White House” from the proprietor of this site.
Hewitt says McCain’s campaign "is sinking like the Titanic after having run into the iceberg of immigration 'reform'.
Oh sure, we can expect the McCain campaign and its misguided sympathizers to cling to the occasional outlier poll that shows the opposite much the way Leo DiCaprio clung to that piece of driftwood after the Titanic sank. But the rest of the Republican Party is like Kate Winslet, desperately trying to pry the McCain campaign’s frozen clammy hand from our own as we prepare for a limitless future.
There are two possibilities as far as the McCain campaign is concerned. The first is he turns things around and zips back to the front of the pack. But let’s be realistic – were it not for his media-awarded putative frontrunner status, John McCain would have no business even being in this race just like Joe Lieberman had no business being in the Democrats’ 2004 race. Like old Joementum, McCain is simply too out of sync on too many issues with the party whose nomination he seeks.
Also like Lieberman, McCain ain’t exactly a political dynamo. You might have noticed during the debates that he comes across frighteningly like a grumpy old Senator. In other words, his potential to turn in a Bill Clinton “Comeback Kid” special is limited.
Hewitt predicts McCain drops out on August 31.
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