Posted on 01/22/2008 1:30:25 PM PST by Checkers
Yesterday's Rasmussen poll in Florida had Mitt Romney up by 5% over McCain, and had Fred pulling 12%. (Giuliani is at 19% and Huck at 13% in this poll.) Now Fred is out and Huck is fading in Florida, raising questions of where there Sunshine State supporters will trend.
This cannot be good news for McCain who needed the conservative vote to stay fractured.
(Excerpt) Read more at hughhewitt.townhall.com ...
He meant Hillary Ilyitch Lenin-Rodham.
Write Fred in. Send the message.
Jeb Bush is for open borders.
/;-)
But I will continue to pray earnestly for FredT to return to the race or be drafted!
“Write Fred in. Send the message.”
Hello Hillary, good ploy...I know eveyone here will do just that! good Idea
A difference between McCain and HuckaCarter? I don’t care if there is, these guys use “lib speak” as much as John Edwards does. I voted for Thompson here in South Carolina last weekend and now I will support Mr. Ronmey
1. McCain knows what he believe - Huck is making it up as he goes along
2. McCain, even though he is often very wrong, is a reasonably honest and honorable man (fr a politician) Huckabee is running a sleaze-fest campaign
3. Huckabee, with his lies, evasions, and dirty tactics, is going forth bearing the name of “Southern Baptist Minister”...as life long southern baptist and religious conservative, i tremble at the idea that the things I believe will be welded by the media attention to such a disreputable person. A Huckabee nomination will provoke intense media attention to his faith, and his failings, and will lead to an electorate which votes first along a divide between the religious and those who fear the religious. it will be akin to a racial divide in it’s intensity and the standard bearer for the religious will be a man wholly unworthy of that position.
It will set back the mission of the SBC, and the efforts of religious political conservatives, and the Republican party as a whole, for a generation.
A McCain nomination is most unfortunate, a Huckabee nomination is actively dangerous.
I keep wondering why Keyes doesn’t jump ship and run for them? His days of being taken seriously in the GOP are long past.
So you are going to vote for the guy who once bragged that he was to Kennedy’s left? No thanks! Romney will tell you anything you want to hear in order to get elected. I’d rather hear something I disagree with than something that’s most likely a lie.
As usual the right irrelevant.
I have worked on many campaigns over the years and the volunteers who come in and work their rear ends off are almost always RINOs. The vast majority of volunteers are RINOS.
And the strange as it sounds, RINOs never desert conservative candidates. If the candidate in the general election has a R besides his name the RINOS bust their rump to get him elected. If the REpublican candidate is a right winger, the RINOS are just as for him as if he were the biggest RINO in the country.
Then if the coservative does get elected, the RINOS come visit to ask for his support on some RINO issue. The conservative office holder now knows he owes his office to the RINOS that busted their butts to elect him. So he, just this once, votes for the RINO position. He figures he owes them.
Then the right wing Office holder hears from the conservativs. They trash him from morning to night. They call him a dirty rotten turn coat ... and scream and knash their teeth.
Meanwhile the RINOS are supportive and do all they can to reelect the less conservative office holder again.
In an election cycle or two the former Conservative becomes a full blown RINO and the conservative voter is saying.. I'm gonna vote 3rd party.
Conservatives are never there for any R, RINO or Conservative. What they do best is whine, eat worms, and vote for third parties.
Consider me in Camp B. I’m going to sit it (the primary) out. Fear of McCain isn’t enough to compel me to vote for Mitt, a candidate I don’t trust or think is conservative. Once our nominee is selected, the pundits will try again to convince me to vote against the likely Democrat, Hillary, out of fear or hatred. I want someone I can vote FOR, not as a protest against the other person. By electing RINOs, we keep moving the country left. Sorry, but I can’t endorse that. Bush II was the final straw for me, and I’m someone who once felt it foolish NOT to vote for the lesser of two evils. Well, all that’s giving us is more evil. Seriously, how will conservatives ever actually make the country more conservative, even a tiny bit, if we keep electing people who aren’t conservative???
Ah. I thought he was just using a little hyperbole.
Fred is dead. Get over it.
I’m hopin that Fred goes with Romney as VP.
I just can’t see with Fred’s integrity that he would compromise to hook up with McCain.
As Far as Fred’s Friends, I hope there are enough of us who can convince him to associate his political acumen with Romney.
IMO Giulliani has the most conservative record of governance when compared to the other three. Granted that’s not saying much, but the bar isn’t very high now. No matter who I vote for now, it will be for the one I dislike the least. That happens to be Giulliani.
In fact I might not vote in the Republican primary now at all. Voting against Hilliary twice this year sounds like a pretty good idea.
Good point that Romney has less of an issue on religion than Huck.
The Dems (and McCain) need Huck. Without him, the republican base will solidfy around Romney and we’ll be all set by super tuesday.
Can’t say the same about the dems. Politics is all about the person for them — the principles, the party or the country are all secondary. Obama and Hillary will fight to the end. Will be fun to watch and should help us come November.
The Dems (and McCain) need Huck. Without him, the republican base will solidify around Romney and we’ll be all set by super tuesday.
Can’t say the same about the dems. Politics is all about the person for them — the principles, the party or the country are all secondary. Obama and Hillary will fight to the end. Will be fun to watch and should help us come November.
Your contempt for principled conservatives is amazing, and a reminded for me to gather up votes to oppose the RINO in the general election.
Fortuntely, I live in New Mexico where votes turn on the slimest of margins, and I can probably swing 500 votes.
New Mexico is small, but it’s three electoral votes the RINO won’t get.
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