The dream is dead - Pandora Peaks garners no delegates on Super Tuesday
As you all know I veered from the mainstream candidates early on and endorsed Pandora Peaks as my preferred presidential candidate, both for the lyrical nature of the name title combination (President Pandora Peaks just sounds good) and for the huge knockers - but mainly for the huge knockers. Anyway her campaign has been lackluster at best and unfortunately last night she garnered no delegates in any of the Super Tuesday primaries.
I have the feeling this effectively kills her candidacy. Alas!
The actual outcome of Super Tuesday leaves us with John McCain as the undisputed GOP front runner, which is almost sure to fracture the party as Victor Davis Hanson points out:
1. The McCain animus apparently transcends ideology. He has admitted his mistakes on immigration, and would not raise taxes, while his ACU ratings are good, and his ADA/ACLU scores are lousy — nearly the exact opposite of those of Obama and Clinton. Again, the anger apparently derives from his gratuitous past snubbing of prominent conservatives (especially the notion that a rude McCain didn’t need them then, but a conciliatory one does now) and can’t be assuaged. At this point, I take the base’s claims they will sit out — or that Hillary or Obama is no worse than McCain-as genuine.
And given their furor expressed so far on the record, it would be almost impossible for them to recant, and they shouldn’t be defamed or coerced to try. No doubt they will lead the charge in a year or two against the liberal Supreme Court nominations of a President Obama or Clinton, or payroll and income tax increases, or a timetable withdrawal from Iraq. Just as McCain is trying to win them back now, they will try to win back then those who are turned off by the venom expressed against the likely Republican candidate. In either case, it will be nearly impossible to do so.
Romney and Huckabee are still alive but on life support at this point. Amazingly Ron Paul took 23% of the vote in Montana (that’s 5 votes total I think) so maybe his candidacy actual has some legs.
On the Democrat side there was no clear winner, the actual delegate count is even in dispute, but Hillary did better than expected and that will give her candidacy a shot in the arm.
completely unnecessary photo of former presidential candidate Pandora Peaks
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February 6th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
A truckload of Pandora Peaks for President t-shirts just arrived in Santo Domingo.