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...Paul BILLBOARD greets GOP delegates...
...this namby-pamby stuff will turn off the rank and file. It is true that after years of maverick behavior, McCain will be in the ironic position of having many of his longtime political enemies staring back at him from the convention floor. The creative-destructive caucus in the GOP is small, however, and few crave victory at the cost of self-immolation. And the prospect of an Obama-Pelosi diktat in Washington is enough to make even the most McCain-hating Republican sprint breathlessly to the polls. Ultimately it is a question of simple arithmetic. In 2008, the GOP...
...about honor, battle and victory. His convention speech has a different purpose: it must welcome and then reassure. It must show in plain language not one party's road to victory but what a McCain presidency would mean to all Americans. This is not the sort of convention the GOP does naturally. But in this difficult year, the Republicans must gallop, not walk, along a different path...
Murphy is a GOP political consultant and was senior strategist for Senator John McCain's 2000 presidential race
MARCH 4 After lingering for weeks, Huckabee concedes, allowing McCain to declare victory and "claim with confidence, humility and a great sense of responsibility" that he will be the GOP nominee...