Campaign predictions: Blameshifters

If McCain loses, his neocon and liberal Republican backers will blame real conservatives for not “getting with the program”. They will claim traditionalists are “holding the party back” with “outdated views.”

Campaign predictions: McCain’s macaca moment

If, as now seems inevitable, McCain wins the Republican nomination, at some crucial point in the campaign one of McCain’s sycophants in the media will undergo a "crisis of conscience" and feel compelled to report some of McCain’s off the record off-color remarks.