Posted on 02/09/2008 11:25:20 AM PST by gpapa
Well, Super Tuesday is over, and now we have two major party presidential nominees. That's the lead sentence I thought five weeks ago I'd be writing for this column. But the 33-day round of caucuses and primaries that seemed likely to produce decisions after 23 states voted on Super Tuesday have failed to deliver.
True, John McCain appears to have a relatively clear flight path to the Republican nomination. The invaluable realclearpolitics.com Website, as I write, credits him with 697 delegates to 244 for Mitt Romney and 187 for Mike Huckabee.
But the McCain aircraft can expect some turbulence before it gets its wheels down. Vocal conservatives, led by talk show hosts Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, insist that McCain isn't a proper conservative and isn't much of a Republican.
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Sorry, but judging by the short memories exhibited on FR about the Clintons, following a Vichy strategy will accomplish nothing but ruin.
Apparently the voting public had good reason for reaching the decisions they made.
Today's poll: Obama - 45% McCain - 42%. Those numbers are reversed with Clinton. That means McCain is well within striking distance of taking these people down.
“Bobby Jindal could be the next Ronald Reagan.” ~ Rush Limbaugh 02/08/2008
Limbaugh Letter December 2007 Issue Rush’s interview with Bobby Jindal
http://download.premiereradio.net/guest/rushlimb/pdf/LimbaughLetter_BobbyJindal_Interview.pdf
LOL. Quote McCain: “You little jerk!”
In the words of the great Jackie Gleason, "How sweet it is!"
Just curious, how many of these did GWB support and/or sign? I'm thinking it's 3 out of 3. So McCain is unacceptable, will destroy the party...but GWB is ok? Have I got it?
Now our children are doing battle in their generation, my 3 are very good at it too, lol!
As for me/us, making men like McCain as miserable as he has made his fellow Americans, is a fine goal indeed.
At this moment, we are taking applications from Republican officeholders nationwide, for McCain’s own “maverick”, to harass him ruthlessly from the right.
Of course, no one has stepped up yet, sissies that they are.
>>>>I think Obama being a thorn to Hillary Clinton is a huge understatement, he is much more than that.
If I were a Rat I’d be enthusiastic about Obama in an emotional way, but come August I’d face the reality of how sophomoric would be an Obama administration, how unruly it would be as black powerbrokers and pols got their first real control of the Plum Book (political appointee jobs), the staggering learning curve they’d have to surmount.
So it would be Hitlery.
But I’m not sure that Rats - and expecially the ytounger ones - would think that way. They might be very willing to simply throw the dice on Obama.
McCain can only win if the Democrat leadership wants him to. At this point, I don't really know whether the Democrat leadership wants that or not; a McCain win would better advance the cause of liberalism, but Hillary also seems to have some strong interest in winning personally.
If McCain does win, it will be because liberals believe they have him in their back pocket. And if that's the case, Hillary or Obama would be the lesser of two evils.
Or they might decide that they just couldn't stand Hillary.
Frankly, I suspect that both parties could run a ham sandwich for office and a significant number of voters would prefer it to any remaining candidate.
Correction: either side could run a ham sandwich against its last remaining candidate (whoever that turns out to be in the case of the Dems) and a singificant number of voters would prefer it.
Wow. You seem like you’re very intimidated by this “Democrat leadership”. Who are these people?
When that crap starts appearing in mainstream conservative publications, we’re in trouble.
After his exemplary service in Vietnam, he’s one of the first people I’d want in a foxhole with me. He has proven himself in that area - I don’t know what more a man can do to earn the respect of the American people in that regard. Six years in the Hilton? Seven? Losing his legs?
Disagree with him on any policy you like (I disagree on some.) But as to military issues he is first rate in my opinion.
“They might be very willing to simply throw the dice on Obama.” I know. He makes them “feel good.”
I am loving it. We can win this thing.
I would vote for a republican ham sandwich over and against a democrat ham sandwich!
Agreed. This is not a big ideological contest. It's going to be a fight over the middle ground.
Who controls the LSM? Enough information exists in McCain's public record exists to pretty well sink him, and Hillary probably has some confidential information which could do the job thoroughly. If a candidate tries to bash another candidate with his record, that will often cause some voter resentment against the candidate doing the bashing. But if the LSM does it, there would be no such backlash.
Perhaps it's really the LSM that are more important than the Democratic leadership, but when the LSM does something it's usually a pretty safe guess that the Democratic leadership doesn't object too strongly.
OK. So how did Bush get elected, not once but twice?
I disagree. Most of the folks I know that voted for McCain know nothing of his record. They just believe he is a conservative because of his military record. McCain cannot win without us. He might win with us. If he wants to win the general election, if we hold our ground, he has to come to our positions at least on most of the major issues before most will help. I will require a lie detector test! :D)
Well, the LSM thought they could sink him in 2000 with his drunk-driving arrest, and in 2004 with the fact that he had Killian rig documents so he could escape duty. Of course, their problem was that there wasn't anything real in George W. Bush's record with which to attack him.
John McCain's record, if properly exposed, will be devastating to him. Even just playing some nicely edited clips of McCain's explosions, followed by a nuked daisy, would probably work pretty well. McCain's record as a flip-flop-flip-flopper is pretty nasty also.
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