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Dems pick Republican candidate; Republicans pick Dem candidate (Is this weird, or what?)

Posted on 03/05/2008 6:53:47 PM PST by Sun

Hillary wins in Ohio - she's the new comeback kid, thanks to all the Republicans who voted for her.

John McCain thanked the Independents and the "Independent Dems," as he put it, for voting for him.

Dems and Independents voted for Senator McCain in the early primary states, which is what gave him momentum, which is why the Republicans now have a liberal Republican.

Rush Limbaugh was saying that the Dems and Independents also voted for McCain in 2000, so this is tit for tat.


TOPICS: Politics; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: 2008; clinton; elections; hillary; mccain; primaries
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To: alicewonders

“I predict Obama & Hillary will kiss & make-up and share the ticket.”

I agree.


21 posted on 03/05/2008 7:22:10 PM PST by Sun (Don't make me come over there.)
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To: Sun
I really don't subscribe to the theory that the Rat voters picked our candidate. Let's face it, George W. Bush didn't do a damn thing to help find someone to continue on a conservative legacy. Dick Cheney should have stepped down in 2004 to make way for a young conservative who would have been groomed for greatness.

We just didn't have anybody really conservative, and really exciting to pick from. Even Fred Thompson's supposed 'draft' went nowhere fast. And I had a Thompson bumper sticker on my car! There was no conservative front-runner on January 1, 2007. Things might have been very different had there been one.

I'm glad that we have the chance to wreak havoc on the Rats. I love the fact that "selected, not elected" will apply to the Rat nominee coming out of Denver instead of GWB. I'm happy that we have a chance to alienate either the rabid feminazis or the African-American voters from the Rat party for at least a generation.

22 posted on 03/05/2008 7:25:08 PM PST by hunter112 (The 'straight talk express' gets the straight finger express from me.)
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To: Resolute Conservative

“Well since all candidates are basically the same no loss, ..”

There is a loss, because the Republicans got the 2nd most liberal presidential candidate out of the bunch, due to the facts that Dems and Independents could vote in the early primaries, thus giving McCain traction to win future primaries.


23 posted on 03/05/2008 7:25:20 PM PST by Sun (Don't make me come over there.)
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To: Sun

A few weeks ago Cross-Over Voting was a Capital Offense here at FR.

This week Cross-Over voting is sacrosanct.


24 posted on 03/05/2008 7:27:18 PM PST by trumandogz ("He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper and it worries me." Sen Cochran on McCain)
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To: alicewonders
According to Tucker Carlson tonight, it's all over. She's the Prez, he's the Veep. I think that taking the #2 ribbon after winning more delegates and getting more votes is a pretty poor prize, but he's willing to sell out for the "Second Best", which I would think would infuriate African-Americans. However, they are so used to taking whatever the Dems hand out, they'll go along to get along.

I can't imagine Michelle Obama going along with whatever muck the Clinton team dishes out to her and her husband. There is no way Obama will get to be a powerful Veep like Cheney, not with Bill around 24/7.

Isn't it rather degrading in a human, not racial or sexist but human, way to be insulted by such a ruthless witch in such degrading ways and then after to be her #2?

25 posted on 03/05/2008 7:30:13 PM PST by MHT
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To: trumandogz

While it’s nice getting even, and what could we do, they started it, we are still stuck with three liberal presidential candidates, and one will be our president.


26 posted on 03/05/2008 7:30:18 PM PST by Sun (Don't make me come over there.)
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To: alicewonders
If they share the ticket they will kiss and make up. Reagan and Bush ran an acrimonious campaign against each other; the guy who was for a "kinder and gentler nation" ran the kind of campaign against a Republican that he should have run in 1992 against a Dem. But against Dems, he was too genteel.

I digress. My point is, if those two could join together, and give the Dems the ability to repeat "vodoo economics" for years, then nothing said or done by Hillary and Obama will keep them from getting together. However, I would not do anything with Hillary were I Obama. He gets tarred with her corruption if he is her VP, and if she is his, he gets a big target on his back, courtesy of Hillary Baines Clinton.

She gains by having him as VP; she gains nothing by being his VP--she is too old. She would be better off working against him behind the scenes in the general (as she did against Kerry) and hoping that in 2012 people still remember her.

27 posted on 03/05/2008 7:31:19 PM PST by Defiant (Para votar Obama, se necessita una cabeza de nada...un cabeza de nada, para mi para ti, ay arriba..)
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To: org.whodat

Nope. Numerically she cannot win without the super delegates voting against the popular and delegates. She is going to push to have the Florida and Michigan elections validated and then she’ll beg, steal, extort, or bribe the super delegates to make sure she “wins”. The Obama voters are not going to be happy.


28 posted on 03/05/2008 7:40:41 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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To: harpo11

“sort of like John Kerry serving in Viet Nam all the time”

John Kerry was in Vietnam??
AHAHAHAHAHAHA. Sorry.

I don’t think I could vote in a Democrat primary just out of sheer embarrassment, y’know? But it’s going to take s%^t really hitting the fan before enough people take this whole conservatism thing seriously in this country. I can’t think of anything to facilitate that any sooner than 4 years of Obama.


29 posted on 03/05/2008 7:44:26 PM PST by DaBadGuy (Demican or Republicrat? The choice is yours.)
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To: harpo11
You are spot on, on all counts. And look at the total number of votes for McCain, in any given state. They were half, or less, than either of the libs.

The RNC is as culpable as the left in the nomination. They have left us with what they THINK is mandate of some sort, and we will vote McCain just because he has an “R” next to his name, like it or not. Their gamble will probably not pay off. As has been stated, I am not sure that they even want the “R”’s to win. Heck we even have Rove out telling us not to use Obama’s middle name.

And yet the RNC, and the GOP have the nerve to email us and send mail to our homes telling us they must raise money to support him. Hey, RNC, GOP, good luck with that! My donation went to pay for my groceries, gas, and oil. If there is anything left, I would certainly NOT send it to you!

I will support, whenever I can, Conservative Congressmen.

30 posted on 03/05/2008 8:12:21 PM PST by gidget7 (Duncan Hunter-Valley Forge Republican!)
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To: Sun
Yes Sun, that is true, and I wish he hadn’t said he would leave Congress. I hope he runs for Gov. or Senate!
31 posted on 03/05/2008 8:13:52 PM PST by gidget7 (Duncan Hunter-Valley Forge Republican!)
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To: Sun

The very premise here is doubtful. Democrats are riled up and frantic to be voting for Obama and Hillary - to make history, don’t you know. While Republicans may be taking part in the Democrat primarys, the opposite is unlikely to be true. Is the suggestion that on top of the staggeringly huge Democrat turn-out, an additional staggeringly huge number of Democrats turned out to vote for McCain as well?

If so, if Democrats outnumber Republicans by 5-1 as those numbers would suggest, and are actively out voting, we’re in for a very painful 8 years.


32 posted on 03/05/2008 8:27:52 PM PST by COgamer
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To: gidget7
"I will support, whenever I can, Conservative Congressmen.

I second that!!!

Hey, your comments are spot on as well. I'm not giving a dime to the RNC, let them hit on the blue-blood country clubbers for donations since McCain is their kind of guy.

33 posted on 03/05/2008 8:31:36 PM PST by harpo11 (America is a Republic. Not a Fiefdom where only two families rule for over a generation.)
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To: DaBadGuy
"I don’t think I could vote in a Democrat primary just out of sheer embarrassment, y’know?

I do know and I couldn't either, even if Rush Limbaugh got some of his "mind-numbed robots" to do his bidding, this "mind-numbed robot" couldn't ever. Eeeuuu!!! I truly enjoy Rush's show for many years and then he goes all Clinton News Netwhacko all of the sudden. Anyway, sorry for changing subject.

After another Clinton retread replay, or an Obama, perhaps, even McCain, I seriously wonder how much success conservatives would have in regaining any semblance of political clout. They blew it royally in 1994, and continued to blow it until the voters officially told them to take a hike in 2006.

34 posted on 03/05/2008 8:39:00 PM PST by harpo11 (America is a Republic. Not a Fiefdom where only two families rule for over a generation.)
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To: Sun

If I could choose the Democratic candidate, I’d pick Zell Miller.


35 posted on 03/05/2008 8:50:01 PM PST by Stonewall Jackson (Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory. - George Patton)
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To: Sun

We chose poorly, not because of Dems voting, but because most of the party faithful’s fear of Hillary. Almost every arguement in favor of their candidates was, “He can beat Hillary!” Hell of a criteria for selecting the leader of the free world.

Operating out of fear instead of being governed by principle led to McCain getting the nomination.

And I am still voting for Duncan Hunter.(unless a great third party candidate comes along)

thanks for the ping! :)


36 posted on 03/05/2008 8:54:42 PM PST by upsdriver
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To: Sun
...contact your political party, and tell them how you feel....

Seriously, DOES THAT HELP?... I would think they should have figured it out by now, many on the base we are not happy with the way Macaca was chosen - by independents... But then again, I have the feeling many of our unhappy customers will end up voting for him anyway... and so my thinking is, ACTIONS ARE LOUDER THAN WORDS, and we end up being exactly all NOISE but not action, then I ask myself, why would the party bosses change anything? :)

See my point?... It's such a basic rule of life I don't know how you can get around it.

Furthermore I actually think it's in the BENEFIT of our politicians and party bosses to ALLOW "independents" to vote in order to water-down the conservative's vote, which I am sure they consider "extreme," and damaging to the party. In other words, politicians care about one thing above all: getting elected...and they can certainly weasel their way best, in and out and around us, as long as the can maintain the voters "divided." Off balance, so they can apply the old triangulation thing...

I generally dislike politicians because I don't trust them. But I RESPECT them for being the ultimate con-artists that they are, smart, charming, etc. I mean look at is happening with Macaca himself...Even with the Internet and all the communications we have today... We still can't defeat them. They somehow, directly or indirectly, as we see it here in FR with the constant 'propaganda' :) that we *** MUST *** vote for any piece of s*** given to us... because!... oh yes, the "less of two evils," or other BS like that.

37 posted on 03/05/2008 10:41:16 PM PST by ElPatriota (Duncan Hunter 08 -- I am proud to support this man for my president and may be Huck :))
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To: DaBadGuy
I can’t think of anything to facilitate that any sooner than 4 years of Obama.

We could all be killed in that time. I think Bill Clinton proved that, in this world, you can't take a few years off from foriegn policy for navel-gazing.
38 posted on 03/06/2008 3:01:25 AM PST by Thrownatbirth (.....Iraq Invasion fan since '91.)
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To: Sun
Keep me on the list....Thanks!
39 posted on 03/06/2008 4:29:17 AM PST by Guenevere (If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all.)
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To: Sun
The scary point is....

The elitist Republicans aren't even trying to hide their agenda anymore!

God help us.

40 posted on 03/06/2008 4:30:26 AM PST by Guenevere (If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all.)
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