John McCain took another step toward the Republican Presidential nomination with his 5 point victory over Mitt Romney in Florida’s Tuesday primary. On the Democrat side, Hillary Clinton won with 50 percent of the votes over Barrack Obama’s 33 percent. Having failed to gain traction with the voters, Rudy Giuliani and John Edwards have both announced plans to withdraw from the race.

11th District Republican Congressional candidate Carl Mumpower has expressed discouragement with the absence of “authentic conservatives” running in either party. “We have candidates who pretend to be conservative, candidates who have had a recent conservative conversion, and candidates who can talk conservative,” said Mumpower. “But when you look at what really counts – voting records – there is not a real conservative in the bunch. It’s even worse on the Democrat side where we have a full slate of candidates pretending to be moderate who are actually, per their voting record, secular socialists.”

“The abysmal performance record of Congress, the President’s glossy State of the Union Address, and the liberal slate of presidential contenders leave little hope for salvation from Washington,” said Mumpower. The solutions to our national ills are going to have to come from people at the local level, from both parties, finding their courage button. In the mean time, for conservatives, it is looking more and more like another Presidential election that has us holding our nose.”

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