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The Next Week Will Be a Wild Ride

It so ironic that Rudy Giuliani has been fighting his entire life, fighting tough at all times and fighting dirty when necessary or for the fun of it, and in the fight of his life time, he lost by playing it clean. He beat everyone he ever seat out to beat, including cancer and a couple of wives (emotionally) but he lost the GOP primary by running too slow and nicer than ever. Whatever you think of him, and the ProConPundit loved him as a New York’s mayor but never thought he had the muster to be president, hats off to an American leader–and legend.

Rudy represents a lot of ethnic Americans who were traditionally Democrats but felt "left" out or left behind. He brought a lot of good positions to this race and the prospect that a Republican need night be a right winger. Good for him for giving it a whirl. He will now endorse John McCain and probably do McCain some good on Super Tuesday in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Delaware. Also, Illinois which will be heavy for Obama on the Democratic side next week, would have likely gone for Rudy on the GOP side but will now line up in the McCain column, bank on it.

Thompson helped McCain narrowly beat Huckabee in South Carolina and Huckabee helped McCain narrowly beat Romney in Florida. Huckabee will continue his race for VP and, praise Jesus, the bible man will take votes away from Romney on February 5.

The next week will be ugly. Romney vs. McCain and Clinton vs. Obama is not going to be pretty for the next week. And I wish I could call it or have some sense of how it will finish. I don’t. My gut tells me that, ultimately, McCain will be the GOP nominee and the Clinton’s will be the Democratic nominees. Incidentally, that was conventional wisdom a year and a half ago.

It should all fall into place on Tuesday, February 5 when these states vote: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah. If not, it may all get decided on March 4 by Texas and Ohio.