Michigan Minute

This is coming so late that it is hardly worth posting, but something is better then nothing.

Michigan was make or break for Former Governor Mitt Romney, and make he did. John McCain managed an admirable second place rolling along after his New Hampshire win and Huckabee in the rear. Romney needed the win in Michigan because it is the state of his boyhood home. His father George was elected three times as Governor. George also ran for president, but his bat shit insanity kept him from getting the Republican nomination. Yeah, thats the plot of the Manchurian Candidate in case you didn't quite get it.

Mitt needed the win in Michigan so badly that rumor was a loss there would have led to him leaving the campaign trail altogether. Not sure how real that was, but he won so it doesn't matter.

McCain, though impressed me. He stood in front of crowds in Michigan, a state with a 7.4% unemployment rate, and said, "Your jobs, are gone, and those jobs are not coming back." Needless to say that is a tough sell, but credit is due, cause its the truth and you gotta have some big balls to say it. It was this type of character that make McCain so likable among independent and swing Democrats. If he manages to carry on well he is probably the only candidate in the Republican field who could win the White House in '08.