John McCain’s relationship with the conservative base of the Republican party can, at best, be compared to an arranged marriage. With McCain playing the part of the groom and the Republican base playing the part of the reluctant bride. In this particular scenario, the bride’s heart belongs to someone else, but due to cultural and extraneous mandates, as in all arranged marriages, the bride will see it through out of respect for the culture.

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The two remaining Republican presidential candidates, Mike Huckabee and John McCain, and the two remaining Democrat presidential candidates, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, at this stage of the nominating process can be viewed as allegorical card games. Huckabee and McCain are playing Old Maid. Clinton and Obama are playing a malodorously public game of strip poker.

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A candidate’s spouse cannot ensure an election win, but they can certainly ensure a loss.

Presidential spouses generally fall into two categories: The elected official by proxy, i.e. Hillary Clinton national policy maker, and the demurely, staid and proper role of the First Lady. Not to disparage the non-policy making spouses, but they did not campaign, were not elected, and continued their preceding roles within their families along with the customary duties of First Lady with dignity.

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John McCain is the mathematical favorite to get the Republican presidential nomination after Super Tuesday. McCain reigns in this new position of hierarchy due to several factors exclusive of the Republican conservative vote.

Two factors played a significant role in McCain’s ascension to probable nominee. His position is a product of the apocryphal liberal main stream media’s calculated adoration of him and a systematically undemocratic nominating process.

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Now that the front runners for the Democrat and Republican presidential candidates have surfaced, it is time, belatedly for most voters, to scrutinize their qualifications of being the Commander-in-Chief. In a responsible environment, this action would have been discharged before casting the first caucus ballot.

Political pundits that rebuke voters and the media for not delving into the issues of the candidates in the stead of focusing on the person, their race, their gender or their religion–is, at best, sophomoric political counsel. Before casting a vote for a candidate, especially for the office of the President, one should do at the very least a perfunctory political due diligence of the candidates contemplated.

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John McCain has a new add depicting himself as the Democrats worst nightmare. The ad proclaims that the Democrats fear facing him in the general election if he gets the nomination.

The McCain campaign Communications Director Jill Hazelbaker stated in the new ad that, “Democrat Senators, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards mentioned John McCain’s name 15 times during a 90 minute debate. Thus making McCain their worst nightmare.

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