Posted on 01/29/2008 8:49:52 PM PST by Steve40K
I have been listening to Rush ream McCain a new one day after day and I totally understand all of the points Rush makes. Here is what I don't get, Romney will NEVER win ! The only people that will vote for Romney is us. He will get ZERO independents and ZERO moderate Democrats. The most conservative candidate has worked for the GOP in the past, this isn't the past. This election is freshly post Bush with many PR problems within the party. In the general publics mind, the GOP is about as refreshing as week old road kill. As I see it, the only GOP candidate with half a chance is McCain. Am I suppose to believe Hillary or Obama are better than McCain? I'm afraid that's who we'll get if Mitt is the Nominee
Don't forget those hardcore second amendment types there too......
This attitude is exactly why the GOP is trending left -- they think all right-wingers are as mindless as you, so they have no incentive not to move left in order to get more votes. You enable GOP liberalism, just like many black voters keep rewarding Democrats who have nothing but contempt for their values.
Fox exit polling from Florida
On most political matters, do you consider yourself:Liberal?
Romney 24%
McCain 49%
On most political matters, do you consider yourself:Moderate?
Romney 21%
McCain 43%
On most political matters, do you consider yourself:Conservative?
Romney 37%
McCain 29%
We have a liberal winner!
http://youdecide08.foxnews.com/2008/01/30/florida-republican-exit-poll/
You never heard of Reagan democrats?
The primaries are where you try to make your point. Being involved at a grassrotts level is where you make a difference. Handing the dems the Presidency for four years...you want to think of that as noble, you go right ahead. You stick to your guns.
Maybe future President Hillary Clinton will send you a thank-you card. Mindless, indeed.
Really? If the GOP establishment knows that you will vote for the Republican candidate, no matter who it is or what their policy positions are, wouldn't they be fools NOT to push liberal candidates since they have a greater chance of also attracting moderate/liberal voters?
You need to think about where this country will be in 10 or 20 years, not 10 months.
He probably did.
I always love when people (especially noobies) post a 'Vanity' and then fail to participate in their own thread.
*eye roll*
Don’t get me wrong. McCain is not Reagan. And he is no Reagan Republican.
But unfortunately, he may be the best we can do this time around.
Better him than Hillary.
There may very well be SCOTUS choices made in the next ten to twenty months which will still be around in ten or twenty years. You want to let some damn dem make those decisions just so you can gotcha the GOP? And you think I'm part of the problem?
Remind me, what damn party nominated seven of the nine current justices on our pro-abortion, anti-first-amendment, anti-property-rights Supreme Court? Do you want more Kennedys, Souters and Stevenses?
If you're not happy with the eventual nominee, fine. Sit it out, write one in, vote third party, do whatever the hell you want. Don't bitch when we have four years of a dem heading up the Executive, though, and don't call yourself a Republican. By definition, a Republican is someone who votes Republican.
I really don't get people like you, I don't. I don't want to.
I was wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong. I won't vote for Mc****, not even if he picked Newt as a running mate. My time, energy and financial resources are going toward the campaigns of any real conservatives running for legislature seats.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to get good and drunk and pretend the past week hasn't actually happened.
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