Florida

Ok, so Hillary won the no account democrat primary. But the real news was McCain in the GOP primary - he won by a solid 5 points over Romney. I liked Giuliani (the best line for his came when one wag said all of the sentences by Rudy contained a noun, a verb and 9/11 - but he was actually a lot more). Supposedly Rudy will endorse McCain in the morning. That leaves Romney and Hucksterbee and McCain. Next Tuesday will tell the tale. California, New Jersey and New York seem to be in the McCain camp (which I will eventually evolve to - simply because I am not excited about Romney and am downright unrespectful of Hucksterbee.

The other story of the night was a false one. The AP carried a hodgepodge story about talk radio hosts and them losing control of their medium. It quoted Michael Medved, who is a McCain supporter, as saying the big loser in the primaries so far has been talk radio. It then went on to describe how Limbaugh and Hewitt and Ingram have made consistently negative comments on the front runner. The clear implication of the story was that all including Medved were aghast at the prospect of a McCain nomination. Indeed, it seems that some of them would be terribly bothered by that nomination. I have commented before about the odd role of Hewitt as a Romney tout - I wonder what he will say Wednesday about the significant loss by Romney in Florida. But the real story is a lot less than the AP one - Hewitt - who seems to be one of the most vocal McCain bashers has repeatedly said he will support McCain if he is nominated. Who knows what Ingram will do? More importantly, who cares? On our local conservative talk station the lineup of hosts went like this - Ingram (who knows), Prager (Giuliani), Medved (McCain), Hewitt (Romney) and Gallagher (Giuliani). I am not sure what that says about the state of talk radio besides it is not monolithic.