Why John McCain LOST Michigan

Republican presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., concedes the Michigan primary election to Republican presidential hopeful former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney as his wife Cindy McCain, rear, watches in Charleston, S.C., Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2008.

Flap mentioned the McCain GAFFE about Michigan jobs during the almost week ago South Carolina GOP debate. GOP voters do NOT support defeatism – plain and simple.

McCain’s “straight talk” demonstrates rigidity of position and obstinance.

Romney may not have won in Michigan so much as McCain lost it. And he lost it because of a characteristic tendency that makes him Romney’s opposite — political rigidity based on a sense of his own personal rectitude. Having said jobs in Michigan were not coming back, he went to Michigan and praised efforts to mandate an increase in fuel-mileage standards, which auto executives claim will raise the price of a car fully $6,000 — a job killer, in other words. And he spoke against drilling in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge, which is the only realistic way for the United States to increase its own domestic oil supply.

McCain’s line is that he is a straight talker. But there are moments he seems to make a fetish of his own honesty, and asks others to support him solely because of it.

In the long race of campaign 2008 “straight talk” is NOT going to play. Being RIGHT on the issues will.