Here Comes the Republicageddon!

The Battle for Republican presidential hopeful is about to takeoff at full speed.  The big problem Senator McCain is gong to have is that this battle is with the conservatives within his own party. 

Senator John McCain, who has had more than his share of troubles with the more conservative of his party, has been trying to straddle the fence and keep both the moderates of his party and the ultraconservatives happy.  Both ends (and the middle of his party) have been carefully watching him with one eyebrow raised. 

While Senator McCain was using the gopher campaign technique (staying underground and poking his head out every once in while, here and there) and letting the democrats annihilate each other, this problem seemed to be dissipating.  

Now that the campaign has moved into the phase where you start to see each of the candidates more and more, there is a push to have him clearly make a stand on some issues that are important within his party. 

The few stands he has made have not been popular with the conservative end of his party and the conservatives are ready to confront this head-on beginning at the Republican Convention. 

What this means is that the riding the fence days are over.  He is going to have to make the clear stands and risk loosing the votes of those that do not approve.

The troubling part (if you are a Republican) is that your candidate has made it to July and is drifting away from having the party united instead of just going through the last needed changes to finish unifying the party.  It is as if his campaign is in reverse. 

Both Senator McCain and Senator Obama seem to having problems unifying their parties, but Senator McCain seems to be headed in the wrong direction.

The real question is; can the Moderate Republicans, the Ultra-conservative Republicans, and those somewhere in between come together and agree with Senator McCain.

If not there will be third, forth, and fifth party candidates this election season that will be looking to happily take those votes from him and absolutely destroy his chances of becoming president.

I for one am very curious where this is headed and wonder how those in his campaign will seek to unify the soon to be warring factions.