Posted on 01/21/2008 5:48:14 AM PST by cotton1706
FLASH: RASMUSSEN Florida poll to be released: Romney 25, McCain 20, Giuliani 19... Developing...
That’s an incredibly short list compared to the other remaining candidates (assuming Fred has one foot out the door). McQueeg’s alone is about 10 pages long.
Huck won’t leave the race b/c he helps McPain by staying in. Huck wants to be McCain’s VP!
This is utter nonsense. Romney is hardly even known. He is right on the issues, articulate, smart, handsome and telegenic. He will appeal broadly to independents and women. Romney is the only person left in the race who can hold the Reagan coalition together.
That’s rich, coming from a McQueeg supporter.
McCain spent 5 years ina POW camp and vists the nation of his captures on good terms and he doesn’t have the temperment? Please. I can’t wait! I can’t wait to see the temperment around here when McCain and the surviving members of the GOP senate are trying to deal with the 2008 Dem tidal wave Romney will bring on.
A flip flopping, un-charismatic, exaggerating, country club Mormon Republican one term governor of MA who could not win re-election in his home state, has no foreign policy experience and had to spend tens of millions of his own money in a divided field to win. It’s a liberals wet dream! No wonder Kos endorsed him in Michigan. Again, god help the GOP. We’re going away for a long time.
Nonsense? You seem to ignore what I am saying. Tancredo endorsed Romney. Doesn't that even register with you when you are talking about what candidate will be strong on immigration? I am an immigration reform activist who just spent five days in SC participating in the process. I know the issue far better than you do. If McCain is the nominee, he will destroy the GOP and his amnesty policies will destroy this country.
Who says Romney is unelectable, especially if he is running against Hillary who has the highest negatives of any viable candidate? You seem to be buying the MSM line about McCain in much the same way the Dems bought it about Kerry who they deemed as the most electable. McCain has a hard time getting just 20% to 25% of the Rep base. The maverick is depending upon independents and Dems to win Rep primaries. Let's see how he does in FL and elsewhere where there are closed primaries.
With Romney we’re lucky to get 15 states. But go ahead. I just don’t want to hear any whining when we get liberal judges, amnesty, tax increases, and are retreating in the War. We’ll have thrown an American hero to the curb in order to get there.
We don't need a cult of personality to select a President. As a former naval officer and Vietnam veteran, I respect McCain's military service, but I don't agree with his positions on important issues like immigration, entitlement reform, tax cuts, and political speech, McCain has a record. I suggest yoiu look at it.
What 15 states will Romney get or did you suck that number out of your thumb?
Good points all.
If we ignore social issues you're absolutely right... Problem is I cant ignore them.. Nominate Romney and watch a large chuck of the Religious right stay at home on election day..
I agree with you. I never thought I’d be in a position where I would ever considering voting for McCain. It’s just that Romney makes me more nervous the more I hear him speak. For me, it really is a choice of the least offensive. I really don’t like McCain, but I distrust Romney more.
Twigs,
Were it to come down to Willard and McCain I, like you, can vote McCain he is a bulldog on spending and strong on defense..
When McCain speaks on torture and our governments policy towards it he speaks with an authority that no one else can..
Beware 2007 sign-ups bearing John McCain endorsements. Especially when they start lecturing you about what it means to be a “true conservative”.
Nor is voting for bad rather than worse *over and over and over and over again*..
It’s a tough choice to make, isn’t it? I’m so very disappointed that my choices, carefully made, are dropping out: Hunter, Thompson (maybe dropping out), Guiliani... Romney and McCain slid to the bottom of my list, along with Huckabee, as the campaign moved along. But still, I will vote for any Republican over any Democrat.
Last night on the news,I think msn,they said that Romney was way ahead on delegates than anyone else with 59.I don’t trust McCain and I don’t think he has the mental capacity to be COC because of his past as prisoner in Vietnam. And someone has got to do something about immigration and he is not that person. I don’t trust Huckster,and would have to pray God will give this country a good leader,even Romney!
If McCain’s amnesty passes, this country is finished as we know it. Everything else is straightening the deck chairs on the Titanic.
I disagree with you on where the candidates stand on the issues but will not let it register for 2 reasons. 1. What Romney says, as has been proven in the past is meaningless and proves nothing about what he actually believes he will do. 2. Even if he is better on the issues it doesn’t matter because a vote for him is a vote for Hillary/Obama and their agenda, not his. If we nominate an unelectable candidate we are electing the enemy by default.
15-20 states is a guestimate taking into account what a 45% showing roughly equates to. The extact number is meaningless, we are talking a massive landslide. He will only reach 45% because he will run an extremely efficient and poll driven campaign. He will lose swaths of the south. What blue states can he turn red? That’s a ridiculous question in itself because he will be bleeding so may red states.
I can’t ignore the economic issues or the unapologetically pro-amnesty positions that McCain and Huckabee have taken.
Either I’ve got to go with Ron Paul, or I’ve got to bet that Romney’s prior abortion position was merely a matter of convenience since MA is a very liberal state, and that he’ll follow a more conservative path in the future, as he now claims. People like Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh seem to be willing to make that bet. I’m going to do it as well, since I don’t see that I have a very appealing alternative.
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