Bush carried the South...all of it...both times
Posted on 01/20/2008 6:57:25 AM PST by skully
Fred Thompson's distant third in last night's South Carolina primary, has me re-thinking my support. I say this with disappointment, " I don't think Fred can win the nomination". Part of me wants to support him to the bitter end. Another part feels that in doing so I may only be helping McCain or Huckabee; my least 2 favorite candidates. I live in a Super Tuesday state, and my vote may actually matter this cycle, so I want to use it wisely. The only other candidates who seems like they can stop McCain or Huckabee is Romney or Rudy. If McCain wins in Florida, then he's in good shape to be the nominee. Polling analysis, done before Nevada and South Carolina primary; has him in the lead in Florida at around 23% about a 2 point lead over Rudy whose at 21-22%. Romney is around 18%, Hucakabee 15%, Fred 7%, and Paul 5%. Florida is a winner take all state, so whoever wins will have solid delegate count. Romney has the most delegate at this point, counts vary from source to source, but I put him at 72 to McCain's 38. So a win from Romney in Florida would give him a solid lead going into Super Tuesday. A win by Rudy would knock McCain into 3rd in the delegate count. So my quandry is do I continue to support Fred, or put my support behind a candidate who has a better chance of stopping McCain. In the end I will vote for the GOP nominee regardless. This is only because the troops are deployed, and they don't deserve a Commander-In-Chief from the party that tried to lose the war for them. So the primary is where my vote counts the most, and I want to put the "best man possible" for the job on the ticket. Unfortunately it dosen't look like the "best man" for the job will be at the top of that ticket, but there's is another spot on that ticket. Hey it might be wishful thinking, but what's a Fredhead to do??
” What’s a Fredhead to do??
y’all can start by removing the thumb from your mouths and stop pouting “
Hear, hear! We’re grownups. We do the closest thing we can do to voting consevative. Whatever we do, we let the world know that we DO vote, and we DO make a difference. We can also tell people that we’re dissatisfied with the choice that was available and why, but we stay involved.
I’d take the diarrhea, please.
ABSOLUTELY. If we don't like the GOP Pres candidate, not only should we teach the GOP a lesson by letting Hillary win, but we should also let her roll in with a supermajority mandate in the House and Senate so that she can pass and sign whatver legislation she wants! Woohoo!
Is it any wonder the GOP has given up trying to pander to "the base?"
” Part of me wants the dems to win this one. “
Sure. Just nuke us all. We deseve it. Thanks for the juvenile temper tantrum. Grow up and vote as conservative a you can, and stop whining. Also spend a little more of your time leaning how to speak persuasively to your friends and family. If the best you can do is look for a Democrat-supervised national catstrophe to make us look better, you have a lot of growing up to do politically.
Please do it soon. We need you. It will be hard work.
-—I’m surprised some of you can’t see that the news media hate Romney. He won Nevada by more than thirty points and the news media are having an orgasm because McCain won by three.-—
Fox too, it’s shocking the way Romney is being treated by the big media outlets! Mitt wins Michigan by 9 points and he’s just a favorite son. Mitt wins Nevada with 51% of the vote and it was just expected! McCain wins SC with a third of the votes and a narrow margin and he’s clearly the frontrunner, the double comeback kid, a living legend of politics!
The problem is that the lesser evil morphs to become a bigger evil — and you have encouraged it along the way.”
By this logic, we should never vote for anyone at all, since we might not REALLY be voting for the person we think we’re voting for.
Your comment has nothing to do with what I said.
Whether Bush carried the South by wide margins both times, or narrow margins both times, he carried it. That’s all that matters.
He won most states in the South easily both times, by the way.
As for the electoral college, I like it, and so did our founding fathers.
LOL, "weapons of extraordinary lethality"
When Willard came up with that little piece of BS, his goose was cooked in my book!
Romney is their worst nightmare.
I am trying NOT to think about it.
I have been home sick yesterday and today. I have a fever, sore throat and runny nose. My son, who gave this to me, is upstairs throwing up right now.
My days are spent on FR, watching Animal Planet, History Channel, or Seinfeld reruns.
Abortion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_w9pquznG4
Immigration
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/12/01/illegal_immigrants_toiled_for_governor/
http://www.factcheck.org/tough_guy_on_immigration.html
War on Terror
Has no experience on this issue
Romney: There Is NOT a Global War on Terror. During an event in Iowa, Romney said: “There’s not a global war on terror. There’s a global war being waged by the terrorists and if I am president, there will be a global war waged on the terrorists and we will win.” [Iowa City Press-Citizen, 8/9/07]
Judicial Appoinments
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/james_antle/2007/11/judging_romney_and_giuliani.html
http://watersblogged.blogspot.com/2007/12/romneys-terrible-record-of-judicial.html
2nd Amendment
http://www.alphecca.com/mt_alphecca_archives/003072.html
http://www.snubnose.info/wordpress/news/mitt-romney-on-gun-control/
Business
Lower Taxes
http://www.clubforgrowth.org/2007/08/mitt_romneys_record_on_economi.php
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/12/22/romney-and-mccain-campaigns-tangle-over-taxes/
http://schotlinepress.wordpress.com/2008/01/15/mitt-romneys-memory-lapse-on-suv-tax-hike/
Global Warming
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2004/05/07/romney_hedges_on_global_warming/
http://talk.livedaily.com/showthread.php?t=573407
Energy Independence
http://www.grist.org/feature/2007/11/13/romney_factsheet/
http://www.eagletribune.com/punewsnh/local_story_055094544?keyword=secondarystory+page=1
Drilling in ANWR
Pro
Gays and the Boy Scouts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEOJNw4lmlI
Bush carried the South...all of it...both times
It is an imperfect world, with imperfect candidates. I’m staking out Romney as the best compromise - strength, competence, and values. Works enough for me.
He’s conservative enough for me. More so than McCain, who delights in randomly stabbing conservatives in the back for his version of “truth”. More so by far than Rudy. And more experienced and competent than the other viable candidates.
He’s a winner, and he’s winning. And he can win in Novemeber.
So can the Clintons. Big frickin' deal.
Oh good Mass Resistance again....The combination of “novel” legal thinking combined with explicit gay stuff.
Should come with a barf alert.
“Novel legal thinking,” like actually following the constitution and the laws, you mean? I realize that this is an alien concept to most of our legal and political class nowadays, but I’m always surprised when I see FReepers who have bought the judicial supremacist myth.
Do you approve of Romney’s near total homosexualization of the public schools and state government?
Marbury vs. Madison. I may not like much either but if I start condemning people for adhering to it, well I'd be condemning em all.
Do you approve of Romney’s near total homosexualization of the public schools and state government?
It was already "homosexualized" before he got there. Most of it happened during Cellucci if not before.
Marbury vs Madison says that all three branches, including the judiciary, are bound by the Constitution. Did you miss that part? Read the closing paragraphs.
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