If there was ever a day to tune in to Rush Limbaugh, this is it. How will he and the other talkers react to the results last night?

And how will conservative activists react to John McCain's appearance at CPAC later this week? Jed Babbin thinks McCain is headed for trouble:

One source told me last night that McCain is planning an all-out push at CPAC. At 3 pm tomorrow, McCain is scheduled to address the crowd expected to number over 6,000 activists. And McCain plans a very special introduction.

According to my source, McCain has prepared a video featuring President Ronald Reagan to make the introduction. If McCain uses this video, it is very likely to backfire badly. This is the group before which Ronald Reagan said in 1975 that, "A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency or simply to swell its numbers."

Very few of the 2008 CPAC crowd will see McCain as the successor to Reagan and Reagan's principles. McCain has sacrificed conservatives' fundamental beliefs throughout his Senate career. If McCain uses this introduction, the boos will be very loud.

The anti-McCain crowd faces some difficult choices, given that the Arizona maverick has taken a significant, if not insurmountable lead in the delegate race after last night. The push by Rush and others to get the conservative wing of the party to coalesce against McCain clearly failed, and Romney's poor showing combined with Huckabee's strong showing in the South leaves the anti-McCain folks with no decent or realistic alternatives.