Some McCain backers are looking at the SC straw vote and claiming McCain won. To win, he'd have had to get more votes than he got. Giuliani is right on his heels and a surprise third was Duncan Hunter. McCain 164, Giuliani 162 and Hunter 158.

And apparently McCain is having money problems. He's old, he's wornout and good conservatives will not forgive or forget his alliances with various liberals, nor the issues he supports such as amnesty for illegals and gun control, which are really minor compared to his suckups to Ted Kennedy, John Kerry and other pinkos.