Political Death Match: Romney vs. McCain

Winner: the Democrats!

While the Romney and McCain campaigns had been rumored for some time to be harboring ill-will towards one another, they had played nice. Until now.

Here's the summary:

WASHINGTON -- Republican John McCain accused presidential rival Mitt Romney of flip-flopping on immigration Monday and said with sarcasm: "Maybe his solution will be to get out his small varmint gun and drive those Guatemalans off his lawn."

McCain also said he was disappointed in potential candidate Fred Thompson for opposing immigration legislation the Arizona senator is co-sponsoring.

The immigration spat comes as the GOP race turns increasingly contentious and as Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, shows signs of gaining steam in Iowa and New Hampshire while Thompson lays the groundwork for what increasingly appears to be his own White House bid.

Awesome. The immigration debate is (as I've said in a previous post) probably the worst possible issue for Republicans, because it loses them votes no matter what they do. Not that I have any pity for them--these things happen when half your party is racist and the other half doesn't give a fuck about anything but their income. Still, Republicans owning Republicans can't be a bad thing.

It also highlights two other aspects of the Romney and McCain campaigns that make me happy--they both face massive obstacles in their White House bids, ones which will come back to bite them in the ass in the main election. My prediction is that McCain won't even make it there; if he's grasping for straws this early, he knows it's because there is something wrong. And that something won't go away.

As for Romney, well, he's quite the commie, especially for a Mormon. If that whole "wearing underwear with the name of the planet you are going to rule when you die" thing doesn't hurt him in the coming months (that is a real Mormon belief, by the way), his liberal record in Massachussets will.