John Edwards is having an event a week earlier locally. Since the event is being held at a local lawyer’s office that I don’t like, I’m not going. I also think it speaks volumes that Edwards is playing to the shyster crowd.

I don’t know much about McCain but I don’t overly like him for the image he puts forth. He find he is one of the worst media whores around and if there is a camera rolling I find he has to put himself in front of it.

If this was a calculated move to pollute the poll and kill support for Frist, it may backfire on him, as Dave says people are not stupid and will see through this bit of smoke screen.

As for Frist, I don’t see him having a snowballs chance in hell.

At this point I really don’t see a good Republican candidate that really jumps out at me, and that is not something good getting this close to 2008.

Say what you like about Democrats, but our own house isn’t in the best of order either, especially if we have no real strong candidates to even consider.

One thing that surprised me was him throwing his support behind the Prez on the UAE port deal. He’s got nothing whatsoever to gain by doing so.

So, he intended to pollute the poll by throwing in the vote for Bush deal… hence making the poll about supporting the one figure not running for President (Bush) since his team realized it was not all about him. No one wins and he does not get beaten out of the box. He attempted to reset the date of this battle and on better ground. Good military logic, not sure it works here.

The other hand in play is that McCain tried to pull himself right by being both a Bush guy and a party/team guy through his statements. He has a long ways to go if any of the polls run by the party are a refelection.

As grassroots polls and events crawl closer towards 2008, McCain’s team may have finally heard what most of the day to day activists have been saying since 2004; McCain may be able to win the general election but he’ll never get past the primaries being who he has been the last 15 or so years. MSNBC & CNN polls and reports are hurting his campaign. His picture of where he stands is jaded by MSM accounts of his stature in the groups who will pick him as the Presidential candidate.

Without Bush, Rove, some valuable grassroots support, truckloads of cash, the conservative base AND the party’s political machine that is already in place, he won’t get past the first month of primaries.

So, he tried to stink up the place with perfume and it is starting to smell more like manure. Talk radio and the blogs will skewer him on Monday and Tuesday. The weekly conservative pubs will deal with him too.

I’m working on the theory that when he ejected from his plane during the Vietnam war he landed on his head.

More than likely, I’ll stay home. I don’t really see the difference between McCain and most Democrats.

McCain’s ego can’t stand losing. He figures the ’08 nomination is his for the taking. He thought he’d sweep in there and find a McCain love fest going on. That was the real reason the media was present in force. But when he realised Frist was getting all the votes, McCain tried to reposition himself so as not to look like a loser, and it didn’t work.

He’s calculating, and far too cozy with Leftist Democrats.