Conservative Voice

This could be a daily, ongoing post. It’s just unbelievable how reporters today have no etiquette or ethics. Here’s the latest evidence. Liz Sidoti, a “reporter” from AP, was traveling on the campaign bus with John McCain. McCain says to the reporters that travel with him that if he can’t convince the American people that we’re succeeding in Iraq, then “I lose”. He then immediately said, “Let me not put it that stark,” and went on to explain what he meant, that basically Iraq would be a crucial issue, and then added, “I’d like to retract ‘I’ll lose’.”

So what does the reporter do? She writes an entire story on a two words that McCain asked be retracted, having explained what he meant immediately thereafter. And what do the soulless editors do? Make the quote a headline and lead with it.

This is just such incredible dishonesty in reporting. They don’t even try to hide their liberal allegiances and biases. This wasn’t a major policy speech or a debate. This was just having a conversation with reporters on the bus. And it’s the lead story of the day?

I’m going to make a guess that a deal was done last week. Although McCain and Romney seem to dislike each other very much, consider these points:

McCain could use a smart guy that actually understands the economy and how things work in the real world. He could also use someone that more conservatives like, even though not all of them like Romney. And he needs someone younger and presidential, since he’ll be two years older than Reagan at his first inauguration.

In the past week, Huckabee has been talking a lot about how he has no expectation of getting a VP invitation. He’s also seemed to be more critical of John McCain in the past week. This could be because they are the only two candidates left in the competition, but he can’t really still think it’s a competition anymore. So maybe it’s because he now realizes he’s not getting the VP nod.

Rudy Giuliani doesn’t want to be second fiddle.

Romney dropped out very suddenly. He knows there are millions of Republicans in future primaries that want to vote for him. Why would he drop out so suddenly? His answers didn’t seem to explain it.

Romney doesn’t need to be president this time around. He could use some Washington experience, even though he’d like to come in as a fresh outsider.

Could it be that McCain went to Romney and said, “We’re killing each other and it’s counter productive. By the end of the season, we will have only convinced every conservative that neither of us is conservative. Huck is a nice guy, and he has been kissing up to me, but he’s not the right guy for the job. Drop out now, and you’re the man.”

If Hillary and Obama were smart, they’d work out a Pres/VP deal as well. They would be a hard ticket to beat. Of course, it would only work if Obama can humble himself and accept working for Hillary.