Earlier in the presidential primary season I used to say that Fred Thompson was "the 48 percent solution," for the Republican base. In other words, core conservatives had already given up on their hopes of retaining the White House in 2008 and were instead looking for a candidate who could lose respectably and minimize the damage done in congressional races across the country.
So here is why they are sabotaging McCain- they want him to lose, or at the very least are hedging their bets. They want and need to paint him as not conservative, not pure enough to really represent the wildly successful (in their minds) conservatism that makes up the Bush dead-enders. That way, when they are blown out of the water in 2008, they don’t have to do any reflection, they don’t have to assess, re-prioritize, or re-think their policies. They can simply pin it all on McCain, claim he lost because he didn’t offer the voters a “real” conservative alternative, and get back to championing the end of the “death tax” and other important issues without skipping a beat.
In other words, McCain is the fall guy, and they are just distancing themselves from him.
Interesting theory, but I just don't see the Lee Majors resemblance.
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