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Honorable Mention Awards for January 27, 2008 (in alphabetical order)

advertising guy

#251; "...if any watched Witch Hillary in Tennessee last night,really watched it..........the Clinton’s are dead done............ I posted a year ago this is Owanna’s to lose. I was wrong... Owanna won’t get the chance to win outright,Hillary will hang herself and the dems will hang Bill ... bye bye BillHilly..........get ready to testify ... As for Owanna, sure he reads speaces well,but is actually more stupid than most here’s dog....... When Mitt wins it is effect to recruit Thompson..... Mitt covers the north,northeast and therefore Wall Street ... Thompson covers the south,southeast and southwest ... and NASCAR......... Out west Mitt has Ahrnold and Thompson has Hollywood ... oh and sorry.............McCain can kiss my ass"

AfterManyASummer

#341; "Huckabee can endorse whomever he wants, but I (a Huckabee supporter) will absolutely not vote for McCain. Maybe if McCain repudiated his immigration views, I would consider him in the general election. Otherwise, no... I recommend that FReepers vote for Romney if necessary."

A.Hun

#182; "'Let 's offer a Pre-buttal to the MSM.' ... Their is hardly anyone left to do that anita. Too many conservatives would have to eat crow to praise the President. Noonan took the opposite track "GWB Destroys Republican Party". That is what is going to happen. No one can tout GWB's accomplishments because so many have spent the last two years denigrating them. Remember, the consensus here has been that the President is no conservative. We are now down to McCain, Romney, or Rudy none of whom hold a candle to the President when it comes to conservative positions... The only way any Repub candidate will get into the White House is because Hillary is disliked or Obama is black. Unfortunately, McCain is the most acceptable for disaffected Democrats and independents, and would be the Republican's best candidate. He is the anti Bush." (Note: reply to anita's post #8)

aligncare

#243; "Regarding Obama v (insert any pubbie), think Kennedy v Nixon... Nixon was the better man ... Kennedy was the better politician. There is a difference. And the rest, as they say, is history."
#459; "I think Mr. Romney can beat Obama. Maybe even Mr. McCain could (though I’m less certain of that)... But, I’m not at all certain Mr. Romney will beat Mr. McCain for the nomination. (Again, I never underestimate the electorates ability to make the wrong vote.)"

A. Morgan

#246; "... If (McCain) is the nominee the demoRATS will have a field day exposing all of his lies! McCain would do better as a cast member of Grumpy Old Men remake."

altura

#435; "'Yup. Of course once Obama has been dispatched with the Clintons will once again assume the mantle as champions of black America and the media will eagerly go along with it.' ... I wonder if black America will flock that quickly back to the Clintons, or if there will be residual resentment that will lead to a lot of staying home."
#619; "It’s fascinating to see the Rats sneaking off of the sinking ship HMS Hillary... They must think she’s sinking or they wouldn’t dare turn on her... But, I’m not at all sure she’s sinking. Okay I admit I don’t fully understand the Super delegate thing at all, but I believe Hillary has most of those sewed up... And I also understand that South Carolina is 57 percent black... I still think Hillary will be the nominee but I am hoping she and Bill have irreparably damaged themselves among blacks. And they have to have the black vote."
#661; "While we (wonks or semi-wonks) ignore the MSM, or think we do, I think they still have an almost subliminal influence on the spiritus mundi of the country... They are inescapable and creep into our subconsious, even those of us who know better... They are our worst enemy. We would never have had Clinton without the assistance of the MSM."

Bahbah

#43; "Now Timmy is letting McCain spin his economics comments... Timmy is helping as much as he can to make sure that McCain is our nominee... He brings up McCain’s no tax cuts for the rich comment. He is giving him the opportunity to spin everything with which he has a problem... Will he do illegal immigration?"
#51; "McCain says he’s proud again that the polls show he is the only one beating Clinton... He’s proud, proud.... This whole thing is a campaign ad for John McCain. He is confident he can unite the party in the fall... He is wrong."
#56; "McCain comes from a border state, so he knows how to secure them... But we must be humane, he says."
#62; "Timmy brings up Rush and the destruction of the pubbie party if McCain is nominated... McC: I am a proud conservative. He is the most proud person on the planet... McCain says he got Republican votes."
#75; "McCain seems to be running the proud, name dropping campaign. See, all these guys are for me so I must be okay."
#116; "'Watching Clinton in SC was like watching a mad dog slobber' ... MoDo quoting someone else... Lots of nasty stuff about the Clintons. I am enjoying this immensely."
#190; "I see the point of FNC having Huckleberry this morning. They are using him to hurt Romney."
#324; "... McCain is lying about his affect on the surge. He just wanted big numbers of boots on the ground which would have "Americanized" the effort. He is also lying about what Romney actually said about "timetables," as Brit tried to point out over Chris Wallace's efforts to convince everyone that Romney is the liar... Wallace is openly opposed to Romney."
#350; "Obama is on with Steffie. Steffie mostly wanted to drag him into the cat fight aspect of the campaign... He then asks him questions that are impossible to answer...like what could Clinton have done to change the trajectory. Obama has a pretty glib answer, though it contains no substance, as usual."
#409; "'I'm also guilty of believing the polls which show McCain would beat either dem during the general election with the help of independents' ... I firmly believe that these polls are being concocted to drive our party to nominate McCain."

Bernard

#111; "You are absolutely right about the Republican candidates' need to support President Bush. No matter how hard the media is working to re-write history, he did win re-election in 2004 for several reasons... Too many Republicans run their campaigns to please the media, responding to polls. In other words, they act like Democrats. And that explains how the Republicans lost Congress in 2006; acting like Democrat aristocracy... When we get Republican candidates who are willing to act and vote like Republicans, they will take over the majority position again." (Note: reply to Laverne's post #93)

bray

#473; "Nobody questions InSane on his Surge claim. He wanted a Vietnam type force, not a mere 30K troops. He never had any idea of how this Surge would work. He wanted 250,000 troops and a draft."

BusterBear

#171; "'I think Obama has a better than even chance to win the nomination.' ... I agree. A lot of Democrats I hear are asking themselves if they really want to go through another four years of Clinton scandals and screw-ups. I don't think there is a Democrat alive who doesn't believe that if Clinton hadn't gotten himself impeached Al Gore would have been in the White House the last seven years. If Obama shows conclusively that he can attract white voters, there will be plenty of Democrats, including establishment ones, who will be ready to ditch Hillary."

Capt. Jake

#144; "Mitt has been the best candidate in terms of supporting President Bush, with Rudy close to him. McCain and Huck have been the worst. No surprise there."

Carolinamom

#104; "When I go into the voting booth, I want to vote for a candidate because of his character and his stands on the issues, not just because he is a Republican.....as a vote for McCain would be."

Chgogal

#649; "Brit slapped Wallace down... 'Our job as journalists is to clarify.' Wallace failed. Wallace purposefully spun the editing of the ABC interview. That type of journalism is unforgivable. Brit Hume is excellent. I wish more journalists had his character and dedication to the profession. The world would be so much better off."
#756; "Here is a link from the Fox Business Channel. It is an interview between Albright and Cavuto. Cavuto, the mild, lays into her like you would not believe. This is a must watch. You will have to put the name Albright in the search box and click to find the videos. There are two sections. It gets very good a few minutes into the first sections. It is wonderful! Chgogal’s rating - 5 Stars!!!!"

ClarenceThomasfan

#316; "The Clintons paid off the Harlem minister Rev. Calvin Butts with a 1 million dollar *ah hem* “earmark”. He got the earmark in December, she got his endorsement in January. No connection there, I’m sure."

claudiustg

#463; "If McCain gets the nomination, the Republican Party will have squandered the Reagan legacy down to the last penny."

dobermangang

#380; "McCain won’t unite the party. Millions of Conservative voters that normally vote, won’t go to the polls. Many Republican candidates across the country will lose in close races because of McCain. I won’t vote if he’s the nominee. At least I won’t be called for jury duty for 4 years. I’d rather be front stabbed by Hillary than back stabbed by McCain. McCain is no conservative and isn’t a friend of the conservative movement."

gov_bean_ counter

#252; "Two numbers will make it impossible for McCain to be elected if he gets the nomination. One will be hammered in by the left and one will be remembered by the right... 5 ... 14" (Note: as Rush would say "for those in Rio Linda," the numbers go along with "Keating" and "Gang of," respectively)

gruna

#348; "Russert actually did a pretty decent job of showing McCain to be the lying, flip flopping, backstabbing moral midget that he indisputably is... I say again, Romney is the better man, and I have no doubt that Florida Republicans now realize this and consequently will give Mitt the victory he deserves on Tuesday... The Florida victory will propel Romney to the nomination, and ultimately the presidency... Count on it. I haven’t been wrong yet."
#386; "... it’s the old briar patch trick the Democrats and their cohorts in the media are trying to pull on Republicans, by saying how hard McCain will be to beat, and how easy it will be to beat Romney."

jmyrlefuller

#76; "I think he can; the top 2 will go down to McCain and Romney, and I think Romney wins out of those two. Rudy will finish a close 3rd, but as Fred learned, third place doesn’t count much, and even moreso since FL is a “winner take all delegates” state... I love to see how they continue to peddle Huckabee as a viable candidate. His bubble has burst."
#125; "I don’t think Huckabee is all that viable as a VP candidate, because he doesn’t bring all that much to the ticket. However, Huckabee’s endorsement would definitely carry some serious weight, because Huckabee is (like it or not) the most consistently pro-life candidate left in this race. If he’s the next to leave (and I suspect he will be), then his successor will pick up a significant portion of the base— the evangelicals. That is powerful ammunition, even if it comes after Super Tuesday because I don’t think either one of these races will be decided by 2/5." (Note: reply to rodguy911's post #118)
#503; "... I compare it to a few years ago. You had all these people trumping up 'health care crisis!' '40+ million uninsured Americans!' 'health costs skyrocketing!' ... Government’s plan is to expand the Medicare program to prescription drugs... The only one I know of that has proposed something different is the now departed Hunter. He proposed opening up the state borders. A lot of these insurance companies are insulated by state borders from competition. The theory is that with more competition, prices will drop. That’s how you work within the laws of the free enterprise system to create more favorable results... Now, personally, I think the problem is that demand is artifically high because of having someone else (either government or an insurance company) to pay for your health care and so people just go out and get whatever they want (nearly half of all Americans are on prescription drugs— is that really necessary??), thus driving demand too high. (Gasoline has a similar problem.)"

lainie

#499; "It sure was strange to see Maureen Dowd excoriating Slick Willie like she did. I know it’s calculated, and she’s a big fat liar, and no one cares about her anyway; it was just odd to hear the words coming out of her mouth. She must have a tough time when her lord & master NYT and her lord & master Bill Clinton are at odds."

Laverne

#42; "I’m with you on that Anita; McCain is always trying to take credit for the surge strategy, and I do appreciate his strong support and understanding of the mission not only in Iraq but the overall WOT itself. But for McCain to constantly diss Rummy is beyond the pale and quite infuriating... The segment with Paulson on FNS is pretty boring, imho." (Note: reply to anita's post #38)
#93; "I’m not a Huckabee fan, but good for him today on FNS in defense of his comments regarding WMD. He put the whole WMD debate back in its proper perspective, what we knew THEN, versus what we know now and he credited President Bush for taking the correct action. He also reminded Wallace that the democrats voted WITH the President on the War. Moreover, he told CHris Wallace that if we hadn’t invaded Iraq and he did have WMD, then today’s discussion would be about why Bush did NOT act... Again, good for Huckabee. I’m pleased to see all the republican candidates, except Paul, defend the President. That is what they need to continue to do."

longtermmemmory

#535; "looks like the old establishment Democrats want the party back from der schlickmeister"
#543; "McCain Advisor: 'Think Mexico First' ... Townhall.com ^ | 1/27/2008 | Kevin McCullough"
#631; "Huckabee is adressing the 'fair tax' scam in the state of florida where they were DEVASTATED by the 1991 luxury tax.... The man is a political bufoon.... ALL the luxury sales went to the caribean islands too avoid that mere 10% tax... a 30% tax will be ecconomic suicide... this is on cnn... Also huckster is not talking about the MASSIVE entitlement program that is part of HR 25 http:thomas.gov ... this is the idiot the evangelicals hooked onto? ... huckabee is nonsense personified."
#638; "Huckabee just gave his 'fair tax' scam speech in jacksonville... He DARE not give it in south florida where the luxury tax wiped out the personal boat industry until its repeal... (transactions just moved 90 miles east) ... CNN showed him playing his guitar... Seems more like nero playing the lyre while his campaign rome burns."

Lucius Cornelius Sulla

#97; "Crist is popular with the MSM, liberals and moderates, and squishy conservatives. His coattails are untested, but he is no Jeb Bush. Florida Freepers HATE him!"
#141; "Tom DeLay says McCain will destroy the GOP, he could run something, as the inside man with Rush the public face."

mainepatsfan

#30; "I think McCain’s ceiling is a bit higher this time around because there wasn’t an established opponent for non McCain voters to rally around. That candidate will be emerging shortly."
#36; "... once Obama has been dispatched with the Clintons will once again assume the mantle as champions of black America and the media will eagerly go along with it."

Miss Marple

#66; "... I wanted to let everyone know some things I picked up last night watching the commentary and from information I have gleaned from relatives... 1. Obama picked up younger white voters, far more than the press expected... 2. My son is living and working in Chicago and says that Obama is getting a lot of support from moderates up there, and it cuts across racial lines. A lot of democrats are really, really mad at the CLintons... 3. One of my sisters teaches at a Catholic school which is full of democrats, and ALL of them support Obama, even the older white women... 4. Obama has a text message campaign to get younger people to contact friends and get them to vote. Apparently this is part of the reason his turnout of younger voters is greater than expected... 5. In SOuth Carolina (and I will bet in other black communities) Obama sent people to the beauty and barber shops in the neighborhoods, which are places where social information is exchanged in the black community. This was completely under Hillary’s radar and was very smart. Obama has a history of community organizing which he is putting to good use... I think Obama has a better than even chance to win the nomination. I have decided to support Romney, because I think he will be the only one who could out debate not only Hillary but Obama. Obama would run rings around any of the other GOP candidates."
#130; "... I have a theory about this... If they push the race thing too much, they are going to alienate blacks. Moe importantly, just because Obama loses a vote doesn’t mean that Hillary will gain it... It is my belief that most guys who won’t vote for Obama due to race will also not vote for Clinton because she is female. Those voters will go to Edwards (and there was some indication of this in the South Carolina returns)."

Morgan in Denver

#658; "McCain presents the worst of possibilities. Democrats would use him to get the policies they want but remain able to blame Republicans for anything that goes wrong. Most of the time, the president gets credit or blame even though the other party caused it to happen... Clinton brags over his welfare reform but he only signed it because the Republican congress basically forced him to over time. G. HW Bush got blamed for the tax increase as he tried to work with the Democrats in congress who promised restraint but did not deliver. GW Bush is blamed for Iraq even though almost all Democrats jumped on the bandwagon of war in support thinking they could get a political benefit for it."
#675; "I mentally compared the Clinton 'family' with what we would have with the Romney family. The mental images made me shudder in thinking that it could happen... again. It's like a bad nightmare, repeating itself. Imagine Freddy Kruger and Groundhog Day rolled into one... 'With Hillary we have her, Bill, Chelsea, Hugh and Tony Rodham and Roger Clinton.' ... Compared to the Romney's, this is good versus evil on a scale previously unheard of... If I add a Janet Reno, Madeline Albright, Sandy Berger or Joycelin Elders to this mental movie, it becomes a horror story of epic proportions."

mtnwmn

#429; "Huckabee is all over TV in B’ham. I have not seen any polls so I have no idea how things are really going. He had a fairly large crowd at Samford College. Obama has been here and is getting good press....so is the hildabeast not here but good press). From some poll I saw Huckabee was ahead in GA. Have you any concrete poll numbers?"

navymom1

#310; "Opening question from Wallace to Huckabee: ... Who do you believe in the McCain-Romney lying about the “timetable” for Iraq... Answer: I have never known John McCain to lie.... And this man called himself a Baptist Minister. Oh to be a fly on the pearly gates when he arrives....."

NordP

#78; "I nearly barfed when Huck started talking about how wonderful John McCain is...how Huck knew the economy would go bad (doom) and how he knows the pain of the little guy (gloom...pander); and how Romney only knew about what the wealthy people in the room were going through (class warfare...pander)... Yes, I was born in 55 too, Mike, and my favorite color is orange...but I don't care WHAT you are or do, or what you're wearing... you're NOT getting my vote... The quips the attacks on others that have money (which to me means that person cannot be bought), the HOPE AR connection, the "I have great respect for the Clintons (which he just said)" and his love for John McCain....make me ill."

ozzie

#359; "I can’t understand McCains rabid hatred of Rumsfeld. Even today on MTP instead of saying “The initial invasion was done right but Rumsfeld had the wrong strategy on the occupation” and couching it in conciliatory terms McCain insead has to trash the administration again..”the wars handling was a disaster...I’ve always been against Rumsfeld....the Bush administation blew it...” all in very hostile terms. Doesn’t he know he sounds like a confrontational democrat rather than someone on our side? I, like many here, don’t know if I could force myself to even vote for him even in the general....but I think we here are also a significant minority, akin to primary voters. I think the great unwashed voters who don’t really follow the news that much could easily support him in the general. While I would have liked to see Thompson stay in, it appears now that we need to hope Romney can pull it off."

Peelod

#152; "'CHANGE is the fad word for dim politicians. Damn, an anarchist bomb-thrower is the ultimate 'change' candidate.' ... Would that dirigisme and fabianism become popular among those given to rational, critical analysis." (Note: Dirigisme = an economic term designating an economy where the government exerts strong directive influence - Fabianism = socialism to be established by gradual reforms within the law)

PerConPat

#659; "'... we are currently fighting for the soul of the Republican party. The folks in charge now, regardless of what they were when they started, are not Conservatives.' ... Regardless of the final outcome of the Pub Convention, this is and will remain the heart of the matter. Increasingly, for me, the dilemma of which GOP candidate is better on this or that issue is fast being overtaken by the question of just what has this party become? ... Hunter's message was clear and Fred's was acceptable. However, Hunter's recent support for Huckabee and Fred's collapse have led me to the conclusion that we Pubs are badly rent... While leaning toward Romney now, after seeing my fist two choices bite the dust, I'm not liking it all that much. My interest is beginning to center around waiting for the 2008 platform and hearing what the nominee has to say. My absolute disgust for the Dims could possibly rally me to vote for even McCain when I'm in the ballot booth staring into the abyss of a Rat presidency. But something has to give, and I don't think I will be able to resist working for the creation of a viable Conservative party if this election serves up a choice between what turns out to be Dim and Dim-lite... It was depressing today to watch Brit on FNS having to defend Romney from that fop, Wallace. I was instantly reminded of the great Peggy Lee tune, Is That All There Is?."

Reo

#488; "... When Obama speaks in hopeful and soaring terms addressing themes that transcend racial and economic and political division, he taps into strains of hope that cut across the full political spectrum, with skills not seen since Ronald Reagan and Martin Luther King. Although I know his mis-guided world and economic views are as wrong-headed as Jimmy Carter's, his communication talents are awesome, and should never be underestimated or discounted. He would be a formidable nominee."

Ron in Acreage

#452; "Notice how the Hildebeast or any of her surrogates were no where to be found this morning? ... She was trounced in a landslide in SC and she goes into hiding... And where’s her race baiting slug of a husband?"

shadeaud

#63; "McCain claims to be a proud conservative, but he fails to tell us he spells conservative............CON servative"
#77; "Clinton backs McCain as well as his wife says it would be the most boring campagin ever. McCain says he thanks Clinton for the backing but the race would not be boring( it would be like a bad rerun of the odd couple)"

Sir Francis Dashwood

#202; "The last thing the Democrats want is a tall, vibrant, healthy man like Mitt Romney standing next to their short, fat old hag during the national debates..."

snugs

#453; "Jealousy IMHO he (McCain) wanted his (Rumsfeld's) job, he no longer wanted though towards the end of the Bush Presidency because he wanted to go for the Presidency. Hence switch of tactics on his behalf rather than criticizing the new Secretary of Defense, The President and the change of tactics he pretends that it was his idea and plan."

SwatTeam

#206; "I am breathlessly waiting for one of the tv hosts to ask McCain if he has such a great military mind and is the only one qualified to be CIC, why does he want open borders? Doesn’t his brilliant military mind even hint that we could be invaded by terrorists as well as the ones sucking our tax dollars up?"

TCats

#55; "... I think we all need to keep in mind the negative rating of any Rep Candidate... This election could end up being a series of voting lines with everyone ‘Holding their nose’ before entering the booth to vote - BOTH Reps and Dems. A not surprising development given the retreads that are likely to be put up."
#464; "Not exactly the subject of this thread but I’m watch the McLaughlan Group right now and they are talking about the Stimulus Plan. Remarkably, they all keep referring to the Gov’t 'Giving money to the people'. What a crock! More of the same Big-Gov’t New-speak that has been emanating from BOTH sides of the aisle IMO."

Thebaddog

#384; "I always thought that Rumsfeld was a great war time consigliere. He went in to the Pentagon and got them up to waging a special ops war and we won. It wasn't his job to manage the peace, IMHO... And McCain has never really been vetted for his health issues. If the MSM were to do their job to expose the potential leaders of the free world for their strengths and weaknesses, McCain would have some serious explaining to do. If the MSM was only propping up a tomato can for the democratic candidate, they are doing just fine."

The Pack Knight

#428; "Wow.. Huckabee says giving the taxpayers back their money will only help the Chinese economy. Instead, we should 'spend more on infrastructure.' ... Every day, I have less reason to tolerate Huckabee as the nominee."
#454;"It absolutely amazes me that any self-described conservative could actually vote for that man... He's even taken up Duncan Hunter's banner on China and perverted it into an excuse for more tax-and-spend fiscal policies. The assertion from Huckabee apologists around here that he's really a fiscal conservative looks more and more laughable each time Huckabee opens his mouth... Here's hoping Florida puts the last nail in the coffin of Huckabee's campaign. Once he's out of the way, I'll breathe a lot easier, because I can at least accept the rest of the candidates."

top 2 toe red

#668; "Boy, Chris used his bully pulpit to promote McCain and slam Mitt every chance he got today...and he 'made' himself many chances to do both! ... Sean has been really supporting Romney the last few weeks, I think he has seen the writing on the wall concerning Rudy."
#683; "'It was depressing today to watch Brit on FNS having to defend Romney from that fop, Wallace.' ... Brit should have hauled off and cold cocked Wallace today! ... He collaborated with Huckabilly in slamming Mitt, all the while building up McCain, then argued with Brit that McCain not only wasn't lying about Romney, but saying instead Romney had been lying about McCain. Then the ONLY TWO letters he read at the end...one negative toward Obama, the other negative toward Romney... He is SO carrying Clinton and McClain's water."

WestSylvanian

#232; "Where’s an interview with Romney? Days before the primary in Florida and he isn’t worth an interview? McCain was with Russert for 30 minutes AGAIN this morning. When he finished, McCain thanked Russert for having him “on again.” How convenient. Tell me the MSM isn’t trying to rig the results here. I didn’t hear the whole interview, but at one point Russert mentioned that Thad Cochran in the Senate has said that the idea of a President McCain “sends chills down my spine.” McCain dismissed Cochran as a notorious pork barrel politician who is one of his enemies. If there are others in the Senate, and there must be, who don’t think McCain has the temperament for the job and who don’t want a backstabber representing Republicans in the general election, I suggest they speak up NOW and put an end to the MSM bandwagon that’s trying to get him elected."