But I had to look at the alternatives.  Clinton will do just like her husband did and send our troops out on “peacekeeping missions” instead of actually telling us about the conflicts.  Anyone remember Bosnia?  And I don’t really know where Obama stands on all of it, but from what I’ve read, I have come to the conclusion that he’d rather not partake in any conflict with anyone.  It’s easier to not have any public conflict so your image doesn’t get muddied.  I’d rather have a president that has some nuts than one that is content to hide conflicts.

As far as the economy goes, I have to say that there hasn’t been a Democrat yet that I agree with on the economy.  I’ll take McCain there too.

McCain also has a very strong record on being anti-pork and his home state of Arizona is one of the hardest on illegal immigration.  I don’t know if that has anything to do with him, but I have to believe that if he didn’t agree with it at least a little, he probably has the ability to make it stop.

When I measure those and other points, I come to the conclusion that of the three candidates before me, there is only one that I can vote for.  McCain.  He’s not exactly what I want.  He’s not a(my) perfect candidate.  But he’s the best one out there at the moment.  Maybe we’ll see a decent third party candidate that will sweep me up.  Until then, I’m flying the McCain banner.

The question is, did Romney do it to make a play for VP.  After Tuesday, he’s a distant second to McCain and if things proceed as they already have, he’ll stay there.  So, rather than spend the money and make a little bit of a speed bump for McCain, he drops out.  What if he then begins talks with McCain to become the VP on the ticket.  If it’s obvious that he isn’t going to win the presidential nomination, why not save your money for a national campaign against your true competition, the Democrats.

He even mentions a “national campaign” when he drops his bid.  Not in a personal sense, but he does mention it.  I really think that there is a play here for VP.  Huckabee, if he sticks in the race, (or not really) is running out of money.  He isn’t a truly wealthy man like Romney.  He has less monetarily to bring to the table as the VP candidate.  Of course, the fighting amongst the McCain and Romney campaigns in the last few weeks would tend to say that it won’t happen, but worse enemies have become allies before.

Should be interesting to see if this plays out.

Huckabee seems to have pulled a bit of a surprise on everyone and won a fair bit of the races.  Not nearly enough to get himself into the running full time, but close enough for it to be conceivable that he might take second place from Romney before it’s all said and done.  Which brings us to good ol’ Mitt.  Besides resounding victories in Massachusetts and Utah, his campaign suffered greatly last night.  Not nearly the result that they expected, to be sure.

Where does that leave all of us?  Well, if you’re a Dem, you’ve still got to make a choice.  If you’re a Republican, everyone would like you to think that the choice has been made for you, but in reality, the choice is still yours.  There are still several states left to vote, so it really could be anyones race in the end.

Super Tuesday decided nothing.

Jered was kind enough to point out that the win was partially due to some supporters of McCain switching sides so that Romney wouldn’t win.  Fair enough.  The part missing there is that McCain didn’t get much of the vote to begin with and Romney didn’t get enough to call it a majority and a win.  So, the McCain voters swapped in the second vote and gave enough extra votes to Huckabee to win the vote.  Not exactly the way it’s being portrayed.  According to most MSM sources, Huckabee won only because the McCain voters switched.  Not exactly true.  If he hadn’t had a pretty big supply of  voters to begin with, it wouldn’t have been a possibility in the first place.

Romney’s campaign is understandably upset with the loss and have gone so far as to call the McCain campaign out as “underhanded.”  Well, again, if Romney would have had the votes in the first place, it wouldn’t be an issue.  Maybe they should spend less time worrying about how the McCain campaign turned some lemons into lemonade and more time figuring out why a state that was supposed to be a “sure thing” for Romney turned into a count off with a second vote.

Finally, as a Huckabee supporter, I feel it my responsibility to say that I think there are a few more surprises up Mike’s sleeve.  At the moment, he’s a little behind, but with this win in WV, I think he could gain a little more momentum in the south.  And of course, my conspiracy theory radar just went off and thinks that the MSM is playing up the McCain voter migration in order to offset some of that momentum.  Or as a last ditch effort to head off what could end up being a very good day for Huckabee.

CNN gave very little detail from the calls only mentioning that they sometimes start mid sentence and some have ended with the caller laughing as they hung up.  I’m guessing that’s how they decided that they were prank calls.  How they connected the calls to an organization that is supporting the McCain campaign is beyond me.  Caller ID perhaps.

Seriously, though.  At this late date, is there really any changing the results of the caucus results in North Dakota?  I really don’t think there is.  I’m sure there are a few undecideds out there, but really not enough to swing the vote one way or another.  It’s obviously a campaign to make Romney look stupid and they came back to make McCain look stupid.  Maybe it’ll have the sum effect of helping out Huckabee.