Not surprising! This is what happens when you tick off the base, they refuse to support you or work for your campaign. McCain is getting his own poke in the eye, I wonder how he likes it?

Richard A. Viguerie, chairman of ConservativeHQ.com, today released the results of a true random poll of 1,000 conservative activists attending the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, D.C. CPAC is the nation’s largest annual gathering of conservatives, and was chosen by former Gov. Mitt Romney as the place where he announced his withdrewal from the GOP presidential race on Thursday.

The first question asked of the 1,000 conservative activists was: “In your opinion, is Senator John McCain a true conservative?”
The results:
Yes 197 (19.7%)
No 595 (59.5%)
Undecided 208 (20.8%)
The second question was: “If Senator John McCain is the Republican nominee, I will…”
The results:
299 29.9% “strongly support McCain”
279 27.9% “I will vote for McCain, but do not expect to work or contribute”
35 3.5% “I will vote for the Democratic nominee”
90 9.0% “I will vote for a conservative third party candidate if one is on
the ballot in my state”
40 4.0% “I will not vote”
257 25.7% “I am undecided at this time—I need to see if Senator McCain
reaches out to conservatives in a serious and meaningful way”

It’s not just that conservatives won’t vote for him, it’s that they won’t contribute money, their time and their effort to get him elected. He can reach out to liberals all he wants but will they contribute to his campaign? Will they go door to do and get out the vote? Will they man phone banks? McCain isn’t going to get the support that the Republicans have been counting on over the last 8 years. And he only has himself to blame. He knew that he would run for the presidency in the future, why didn’t he think about that? Did he really think that we would vote for him anyway? He should have realized in Nov. 2006 that we might not.