The race is not over just yet, but . . .

The conventional wisdom is that the Republican nomination is over, and John McCain has won.  As much as I’d like that to be true, I’d rather wait until McCain goes up against Huckabee one on one.  I’m confident McCain will win, but until it happens, I can’t call the race “over.”  There are some races up on Saturday: Kansas (caucus), Louisiana (primary), and Washington (caucus).  If McCain can win a majority vote in Louisiana, he gets all the state’s delegates.  If he wins all three, the race is over.

Now, as one would expect, there are many, many right-wingers who are deeply upset at this outcome.  Some of them have fallen so deep into McCain Derangement Syndrome that they are hoping the Democratic nominee beats McCain (Gordon Liddy calls them “suicide bomber Republicans”).  The rest are mainly looking at staying home or skipping the top of the ballot on Election Day.

Look, I know there are several reasons right-wingers have not to vote for John McCain.  They kept a lot of folks away from him in the beginning (Duncan Hunter won me over before McCain even declared his candidacy; so when Hunter left, I had something of a fresher look at him, but I know what they are, too).  All I would say is this: there are also several reasons to vote for McCain.  I just ask my fellow right-wingers to remember them; they don’t have to act on them yet; we have plenty of time.  

Just please remember them, that’s all.