The McCain candidacy is suddenly resurgent after months on life support. It is accurate and yet simplistic to assess this revival as due to his previous stands on The Surge, which to many now seems prescient. Though there is a great amount of truth to this, there are other reasons that might be even more vital. In fact there are three reasons why I think John McCain stands a very good chance of being the next nominee for President on the Republican Party.
1. The media loves him. Tim Russert in particular seems to go out of his way to promote him.
2. The voters want a man of experience in all areas of government. John McCain meets this qualification.
3. The voters want, even more importantly, a candidate who seems to be honest and promises change.
When you add all these factors in, you can see that all it would take for McCain to be well on his way to winning the GOP nomination would be a decisive win in New Hampshire this Tuesday. Then, the money will start pouring in to his campaign. That is for now his weakest area. His campaign is almost destitute when it comes to cash on hand. A convincing win might well change his fortunes in that regard as well.
Of course, he would still have to reassure a good many of the Republican faithful who see him as a "RINO" (Republican in name only). This is true not only of the conservative base of the party, but the power brokers as well.
There is another reason, however, that McCain stands a good chance. He might well be a perfect reflection of the Republican Party as a whole. Like the Party, John McCain might be a person with a fractured, fragmented personality. Of all the candidates, he might be the one who can glue together all those fractured pieces into a illusory semblance of a sane entity.
On the other hand-well, maybe not.
