McCain Apparently Won Louisiana

As our readers know, we did our best this week to ferret out information on the arcane Louisiana Republican caucus, which occurred this past Tuesday in a process so obscure and complex that the mainstream media decided simply to ignore it.

It now appears that John McCain "won" Louisiana, or at least that's the official line of the GOP poohbahs in the state. Finally, the Washington Post got around today to carrying a brief story on the contest.

As the Post accurately stated, "Explaining -- let alone understanding -- what happened this week in Louisiana presents a serious challenge for even the most devoted of political junkies."

In any event, as we reported well before the Post, a slate of "uncommitted" delegates running under a "pro-life/pro-family" banner (and a big picture of Ronald Reagan) won a majority in every district. However, John McCain got the most delegates of any individual candidate, followed by Ron Paul. But McCain gets to double-dip, because evidently a number of those "uncommitted" delegates are McCain supporters as well.

We wonder how many Loosianans who voted for the picture of Reagan realized they were also voting for John McCain--sort of. Just a guess, but we bet a lot of Huckabee supporters probably thought this was their group.

Whether McCain will come out of the state convention with any actual national convention delegates is yet to be seen, but it's certainly likely.

In any event, as evidenced by the comments on our blog, Ron Paul had enthusiastic support at the caucus, and a lot of Paul supporters--justifiably, it would appear--felt they'd been had by the mysterious "pro-life" slate. Frankly, it sounds a lot like the politics of another century--the 19th. Perhaps next time around Louisiana can run some No-Nothings versus some Whigs.