Oh, Lord - Retirees, Military, Hispanics Carry McCain in Florida

Mitt Romney just gave his concession speech after losing the Florida primary. I honestly expected him to win it by at least a couple of points. Instead, John McCain has won it by 6%, a wide margin. Michael Barone is reporting that McCain beat the heck out of Romney in counties with high Hispanic, retiree, and military voters. Big surprise: McCain is a war hero and his father was, as well. He's 71, and he is a strong proponent of his McCain-Kennedy, aka "Shamnesty" illegal alien amnesty bill. Romney won in other counties, but not by as wide (4:1) margins as McCain did in Miami and Tampa Bay.

At this point, Mitt is going to have a tough road ahead of him. His concession speech reflected as much; you could hear the disappointment in his voice. He will fight hard, but you could see that this loss hit him right in the gut. McCain finally won an all-Republican primary.

McCain is now out giving his victory speech. He is playing up his military record big-time. He says he "intends to win it and be the nominee of our party" next week. Holy cow, that's scary.

I will support McCain 100% if he wins the nomination. But I believe he will lose the general nonetheless, and badly. This will be like the nomination of Bob Dole back in the '90s. People are happy about it now, but they will be wandering aimlessly when McCain gets slaughtered in November by either Hillary or Obama (both of which send shivers down my spine). John McCain is a war hero and that's about it. Other than that he is a RINO. He has the policies of the Democrats and none of the charm or fight (or youth) of either Hillary or Obama.

McCain is giving his victory speech and appears to be looking up at teleprompters way above and behind the cameras; it looks weird. Romney, a master orator, was much more relaxed and authentic. How people could think McCain will be better for our country than Romney, I have not a clue.

Retirees prevented Congress years ago from meaningful Social Security and Medicare reform, which will never hurt them but will certainly wind up hurting my generation. And hispanics love McCain because he wants to make all the illegals legal, throwing U.S. sovereignty out the window. It was these two groups that largely gave McCain this victory. Hopefully the general public throughout the country feels differently and we still wind up with a better result after Super Tuesday.