I must be psychic.  Just this morning I was thinking I should be – instead of blogging about my youngest child going south for the weekend - blogging about my thoughts on which party is going to get wise first.  I truly believe this is going to be the telltale sign of who will end up winning the general election in November.

The infighting and sniping at each other has become continuous in both the democratic and the republican primaries now that both are down to two people.  The democrats, as the race seems so much closer by the numbers, are getting nastier quicker but the republicans – and that should be read the frontrunner, John McCain, as Mike Huckabee seems to be running a fairly clean campaign – are also getting in on it.

Does either party not realize this is not what voters want?  I don’t think the voters mind a candidate – even one extremely behind like Huckabee – appealing a primary result when there may have been some irregularities.  I do think that voters mind the constant personal picking that goes on between those whose policies are close to the same so there is little to differentiate between them.

It currently looks like the GOP is going to pull it together.  Mitt Romney is going to endorse John McCain.  He is going to tell the party to pull together behind the presumptive nominee.  He is going to free his delegates to go to McCain.  This is not something that a suspended campaign does.  It is what an ended campaign does. 

I find this particularly disturbing in that Romney had many problems with McCain when they were opponents.  Is it necessary to endorse someone that you have already told the public that you don’t agree with?  Is it necessary to back someone with him you disagree?  Could Romney not just ask that his delegates be freed from their allegiance to him?

Whether I agree with Romney’s endorsement or not, I do agree that the GOP needs to rally behind one candidate and not have a conservative break when that candidate is not a true conservative.