Dear Corner People:
I’m just wondering: Are most of you political pundits hooked up to some sort of electroshock machine that delivers a healthy jolt to you whenever you stray from the official storyline that’s being foisted upon us unsuspecting dolts in the general public? I don’t know how else to explain hearing some variation of the Romney-is-on-life-support meme about 50 times this evening.
I guess that K-Lo is on some sort of work release program from the mental institution since she had the temerity to point out that “Dead Mitt Walking” Romney is still ahead in the delegate count. Governor Romney got more delegates from the completely ignored Wyoming contest than Senator McCain did tonight (and currently has three times as many total delegates as McCain), and yet the “Conventional Wisdom” now seems to be that Governor Romney has to tear Senator McCain to shreds in Michigan or his bid is doomed. Doomed!
I’ll go ahead and make a prediction, with Hillary’s win tonight, many of the Independents in Michigan won’t bother with a protest “uncommitted” vote against her and will instead throw their votes to McCain. Mitt will come in second in Michigan, but will win enough districts to keep his lead in the delegate count and, yet, he’ll go to bed that night to the sounds of another media dirge on his behalf. Four days later, Governor Romney will win the Nevada caucuses (which the media will also ignore) and will come in second or third in South Carolina, which will be treated as all-important despite the fact that there are fewer delegates on the line than in Nevada and that they’ll probably be split four ways.
So, by the evening of January 19th, we’ll be…exactly where we are today. With Governor Romney still leading the delegate count and yet being counted out by the dear pundits who still won’t realize that we’re not in the year 2000 anymore.
My predictions may turn out to be completely wrong, but the bar has been set pretty low already this election season.
BTW, I still love The Corner in spite of my lowly sarcasm