It is true that each day can bring us a new and different experience. Like everyone who has a TV, I have watched election nights from home. Sometimes I don't care about the contest, sometimes I do.  In 2000,  I was a McCain supporter. I suffered the heartbreak of defeat in South Carolina. At that time, I could not stand Bush and Rove and the negative advertising that stopped the Straight Talk Express. This year I am behind McCain again and I have been able to witness the anger and frustration of the supporters of the other candidates. Coulter says she will campaign for Clinton; Hannidy says he is leaving the Republican Party; James Dobson says that he will not vote for President. Losing really stinks.

How many times have we witnessed an election in a third world country where the opposition will not accept the result of the election? The opposition then "boycotts" the next election. By boycotting the election, the opposition seeks to de-legitimize the election and the mandate of the winning party. How often have we witnessed this pattern and thought how superior we are here in our country, where we accept election results with a determination to get the other guy next time. Well, it turns out that most of the right wing talkers are just third-world sore losers. They won't "accept" McCain. They say that they put country ahead of politics, but faced with a McCain nomination they fear that they will lose influence in making Republican policy. So they would give us a Democratic administration rather than lose their influence. The right wing talkers have always claimed to put principle above personal interest, but by not accepting the nominee of the party they have in fact  put personal interest above principle.

I had the privilege of joining Senator McCain at the Biltmore last night to celebrate his resounding victories in the Super Tuesday primaries. It has been a thrill to be part of our Presidential election and a special thrill to win eight years after a crushing defeat.  As I walked out of the ballroom and the TV reporters were shutting down, I couldn't help thinking back to 1968 when another Senator won the California primary late in the evening. His supporters probably felt a lot like I did last night only to have their candidate  assassinated by an Arab extremist. Now it is possible that the Arab extremists' worst enemy might move into the White House. I pray to God: "Protect John McCain."