Florida clears the battlefield

McCain's victory in Florida clears the battlefield more or less for the Republicans. Guiliani who put all his golden goose eggs in the Florida basket, went down to defeat. Although it is said that he is going to throw his support to McCain, his leaving the joust is welcome, for he opportunistically was counting on the Jewish and the Cuban vote in southern Florida. His gamble proved wrong. Out, too, went his team of right wing hawks. He was damaged goods, and that may have accounted for his defeat. Who would go for a man whose own children wouldn't cast a ballot for? Mitt Romney is there to fight another day, but his chances are less than favourable. So it looks as though McCain whom no one would give a plug nickel to a few months ago, is cock of the walk! McCain is Bush lite. His ideas on the economy sound addled brained. His boyish boosterism for the old virtues and values are out of step with the times. Billy Crystal called him 'Victorian', and had him quoting from 'Invictus' which is a poem hardly any halfway educated American remembers today.
Whoever is the Democrats' candidate will face a strong candidate. And suddenly you begin to hear the groans of defeatist talk among the Democrats that McCain is our next president. But that ain't written in the stars, dear summer soldiers. Still, whoever is running on the Democratic ticket for the White House will have to prove flexible and wily as the proverbial fox to withstand the nastiness which will undoubtedly rain down on him or her from the Republicans who though they speak of civility and the good old values play dirty pool.