Another Super Tuesday post, picking up on the theme of the one below. . .

Does this guy make sense in arguing that conservatives should support even an ideologically-imperfect candidate rather than going over to the Democrats, voting for a third-party candidate, or sulking and staying home?

Let us grant that each of the three remaining Republican candidates have their flaws: Huckabee is a strong Christian, but with welfare state tendencies. Mitt Romney is a Mormon who has recently had a somewhat suspicious political “conversion” to conservatism. John McCain is a mainline Christian who says he “doesn’t like social issues” and is strong on national defense and fiscal responsibility, while weak on immigration and freedom of speech.

How do you balance these pro’s and con’s to come to the lesser of three evils? Interestingly, we have had virtually no overt advocacy of Romney on this blog. Will someone make the case for him? And for Huckabee and McCain? I really want you to help me think through all of this, since I vote next Tuesday!

So Ann Coulter is saying thatshe would campaign for Hillary Clinton if John McCain gets the GOP nomination. Surely that’s one of her famous grand overstatements. But just as the Left is plagued with what has been termed “Bush Derangement Syndrome”–defined as an irrational, over-reacting hatred of George W. Bush–might the Right be plagued by a “McCain Derangement Syndrome”?

I’m not saying I’m for him, mind you. I’m still trying to decide. But I’m not finding the hysteria against McCain very persuasive. He gets an 80-something % approval rating, based on his votes in the Senate, from the American Conservative Union. That would come to a grade of B. That’s not “excellent,” which would be an A, but it’s “good.” That 20% lapse may be a concern on a number of issues. And I realize that a quantitative tally is no indicator of the relative importance of particular issues. Still, the two Democratic senators running for president score, as I recall, 0%, a big fat F. Those 100%, straight A conservatives will need to be critical of some of McCain’s policies, but surely they would not be as objectionable in the aggregate as what the Democrats would do.

Why don’t we have a 100% straight A conservative candidate? Well, in this current climate–thanks to the ineptness of various conservative honor students–it is probably impossible for one to get nominated, much less elected. So conservatives are going to have to do the best they can.

Microsoft once ruled as the computer leviathan that everyone loved to hate, yet utterly depended on. But now in the high-tech world the computing power of individual computers has become secondary to online computing. Now the leviathan is Google, which not only invented the search engine everyone relies on but found a way to make money off the web with omnipresent advertising.

Now Microsoft is trying to buy the one rival search engine and portal website Yahoo. (See
this.) The company’s goal is to compete with Google. Some fear that Microsoft could build into its operating systems elements that could work only with Yahoo.

Is there a good guy vs. bad guy theme in this fight? What technological developments might suddenly make both of these companies obsolete?

We haven’t heard from him for awhile. I hope he is OK.