Our Right-Wing friends seem feverish...

[brooklynite]

Thompson will endorse McCain, save the GOP?

Here's my thinking:

1) Huckabee wins Iowa over Romney. Huckabee's lead is blunted because of Thompson's lingering conservative support.

2) Romney's loss in Iowa means his support drops in NH.

3) Neither Huckabee nor Romney can win a general election matchup against the Dems.

4) McCain narrowly eclipses Romney in NH. Therefore, both Huckabee and Romney are both done (yet soldier on).

5) South Carolina is split almost evenly between McCain, Romney, Thompson, Huckabee, and Giuliani. As a result, Huckabee, Thompson, and Romney drop out.

6) Thompson endorses his old friend, McCain. Huckabee follows suit. Romney stays neutral. It's now a McCain-Giuliani race for the nomination.

7) Conservatives (grugingly) coalesce around McCain. He wins the GOP nomination.

8) Hillary doesn't have a chance against McCain. Running against a national headwind, McCain keeps the WH for the GOP.

9) Pres. McCain replaces Justices Stevens and Ginsberg with reliable (90% ?) conservatives -- giving us a conservative majority on the SCOTUS for a whole generation.

http://redstate.com/blogs/sandiego92108/2007/dec/10/thompson_will_endorse_mccain_save_the_gop

[Ian David]

1. If McCain gets the nomination, he will do or say something angry and crazy that ruins it. n/t

[Mythsaje]

2. Hillary doesn't have a chance against McCain?

This guy should write professionally. The stuff I write is more believable than THAT.

[MADem]

3. Don't look at ROMNEY and NH in this equation at all. NH is a bedroom community of MA.

The heavily populated southern part of the state is overrun with people who fled MA during the Taxachusetts years. More than a few of them commute to MA to work.

Romney is a known quantity in NH, and he's advertising like mad. He also owns a HOME in NH, and is wired in to the business network there.

He spent more time in NH during his MA governorship than he did in MA.

If McCain comes in second in NH, it's the same as winning.