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...tears pored over by the media and benefited from the backlash. She's had Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC'S Hardball--is there a more male title in all of TV?--claim that "the reason she may be a front runner is her husband messed around," had Rush Limbaugh asking whether America wants to watch a woman aging in the Oval Office and faced a young guy yelling "Iron my shirt!" at a rally. (Not to mention: a male journalist writes about a woman presidential candidate--and of course he runs with the "soap opera" metaphor...
...Thompson's candidacy, until they realized that he wasn't. And then Mike Huckabee had his moment in Iowa. But now Super Tuesday has confirmed McCain as the front runner again - didn't the pundits tell you Republicans always pick early front runners? - even though conservative icons like Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity and James Dobson are still trashing him as a closet liberal...
...With a comfortable lead in the delegate count, McCain is now less concerned with the other candidates than the talk-radio hosts, evangelical preachers, war bloggers, party activists and corporate financiers who are needed to fire up Republican voters. They're still divided and disgruntled. Limbaugh has warned that nominating McCain or Huckabee would destroy the party, and while Romney has emphasized his appeal to neocons, theocons and econocons - the Reaganite three-legged stool - YouTube has made him look like a flip-flopping pseudocon. The conservative direct-mail activist Richard Viguerie has called for a new candidate to unify...
...Neither the victories nor their deficiencies took the McCain campaign by surprise Tuesday night. McCain spent the run-up to the nearly-national primary responding to blistering attacks from iconic conservatives such as Rush Limbaugh, James Dobson and Sean Hannity. While all three talk for a living - and their antipathy for McCain is an old saw - the impact of their comments was undeniable; even in his home state of Arizona, McCain lost self-described conservatives to Mitt Romney 47%-36%. "Is it a problem when you're getting the crap kicked out of you on talk radio and Fox [News...
...Black suggested that even two of McCain's fiercest critics - and by far the ones with the loudest megaphones - would, if not fall in line, rethink their attacks on McCain if he locks up the G.O.P. nomination. "Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh will not be supporting the Democratic nominee against John McCain," Black said. For any nominee hoping to win in November, the goal for a general election is to receive 90% support from Republicans, a small slice of Democrats and a majority of independents. "Within a few weeks," Black predicted, "McCain will have 90% support...