McCain bites it- sortof

This is quite unexpected, at least by me.

In yet another rather unpredictable result for this election cycle, Romney comes out on top in MI, and by a sizable margin. It would not be entirely correct to say he trounced McCain, but I will anyway because it makes me feel all warm an gooey inside to think of John with a little dirt on his face. So here goes: McCain bit it tonight.

Now, I still think McCain will ultimately win the nom before it’s all over, and we’ll have a vanilla McCain vs. Hillary election where there is basically no difference between the 2 candidates except on abortion, and a slight difference in the way you draw the letter of the alphabet appended to their last names (R or D). Such an election will surely drive me to drinking, and no matter who wins I’ve decided that it is pertinent to begin the process of locating the local chapter of AA, and postpone finishing my engineering degree this fall.

Especially in the eventuality of, as Blogging Superboy (and reliably anti-Romney pugilist) Daniel Larison suggests, the awful Mike Huckabee receiving the veep nomination. Can you imagine a world where McCain gets elected, bites it in the existential sense, and we suddenly have President Huckabee signing laws prohibiting fast food? Similar things have happened.

Such gloomy thoughts. I need to think on nicer things.

Those backward Evangelicals and their gosh darn CBN

Aren’t comedy writers supposed to be on strike?

I find Larison’s comments regarding the CBN quite entertaining:

Pat Robertson has a broadcasting network? Really? I had no idea! Coverage of Giuliani on his network already had been generally positive for some time. Evangelicals are also probably capable of changing channels to find other news sources (some may even be able to read!), but I suppose that would be more ridiculous speculation on my part.

Now, don’t get me wrong. I actually tend to respect Robertson, Dobson, Bob Jones, the late Jerry Falwell, et al. I’m (usually) proud be grouped into the same religious category as they. However- any culturally-aware Christian who watches the CBN simply has to know of its cartoonish nature when compared to its counterparts on the channels next door, and I seriously doubt even the most evangelical among us (which I am certainly NOT one, as my church’s associate pastor once informed me) take it seriously enough to be their primary source of hard news.

But then I think, Jack Van Impe still has a show…