FLORIDA: VOTE FOR HUCKABEE OR McCAIN.

While Florida will not settle the GOP nomination fight, the paid media will blow the results of this winner-take-all primary out of proportion.

Because of the “snowbird” phenomenon, Florida trends more like a Northeastern state than a solid “Red State.”

At this juncture, Mike Huckabee and John McCain are the only real choices for GOP social conservatives in Florida.

Why not Mitt Romney?

"Mitt Romney's campaign is based on the wholesale deception of voters. . . . The truth is, Mitt Romney was a liberal governor of Massachusetts who raised taxes, imposed with Ted Kennedy a big government mandate health care plan that is now a quarter of a billion dollars in the red, and managed his state's economy incompetently, leaving Massachusetts with less job growth than 47 other states."

Romney also polls as the least competitive GOP candidate against the Democrats.

In short, a vote for Romney today is a vote for a Hillary/Obama in the fall.

Rudy's de facto disregard for the right to life doomed his candidacy, regardless of the primary schedule. The GOP cannot win with a candidate like Rudy, who alienates 65%-75% of the base ab initio.

Republicans (at least the ones with at least minimal fealty to traditional human values) simply will not elect a candidate who views a defenseless and innocent unborn child as little more than an inconvenient fetal parasite that may be hacked into cubes and heaved unceremoniously into the garbage upon a whim.

After the campaign, maybe "America's mayor" could get a job at an abortuary . . . . (he'd fit right in).

(Mitt Romney, of course, has grotesquely flip-flopped for political gain on the abortion issue. His flip-flops have alienated both sides of the life-choice debate. As civil libertarian blogger Tom Head (who is no pro-lifer) wrote "When it comes to abortion, Mitt Romney is like Jack Nicholson in The Shining: One minute he's writing a book, and the next he's ripping through your door with an axe.")

Mike Huckabee is the most consistent, reliable and traditional conservative left in the race. He deserves the strong support of social conservatives.

John McCain is the second choice for serious social conservatives.

McCain is an experienced Reagan conservative who has consistently stood with our troops.

He’s not in favor of dangerous gimmicks, such as a “secret timetable” for defeat in Iraq (Unlike Romney).

He stood for the surge when it was vastly unpopular and against his political interests. (When has Mitt-the-Flip done that?) Unlike Romney, McCain is battle-tested and is fully ready to be Commander-in-Chief.

McCain has also CONSISTENTLY stood up for the right to life (unlike Romney and Rudy).

McCain has fought against waste and fraud in defense contracting. He has lead the fight to curb federal spending and reform wasteful earmarks.

And McCain has remained surprisingly civil, despite the garbage dump by Citizen Kane 2008 (a/k/a Bishop Willard Mitt “the Checkbook” Romney) of toxic and misleading attack ads.

Traditional conservatives in Florida should send a message. Reject RINO Rudy and Mitt-the-Flip. Reject an attempted self-financed buyout of the White House. Keep the nomination process going by voting either for Huckabee or McCain.