Crawling Back

Much like a dog that is beaten by its owner, John McCain still needs to eat. McCain recently met with the same people who brutally ended his 2000 presidential bid to seek their support for a run in 2008. From The Washington Post:

A dozen or so people were in attendance. At least two were among Bush's major national fundraisers. Virtually all had been on Bush's side in the bitter 2000 South Carolina primary that badly damaged McCain's chances of winning the presidential nomination and scarred the relationship between the two men and their rival political camps. McCain was there to woo them.

That has to be tough, to go crawling back, to know that when you leave, they'll joke around about owning you, to know that you're their bitch. I wouldn't do it, but I don't have presidential ambitions in a party that sees me as soft.

I don't know whether or not these guys will support McCain in 2008, it probably depends on how hard the winds of change blow this year. If they blow hard, they will push for McCain, the result of which could lead to fissures in the republican party, because this is the business wing of the republican party, and the Christian right is certain to favor a more extremist candidate.

McCain can win without the Christian right, can they win without him? I don't think so.