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OFFICIAL FLORIDA PRIMARY THREAD
Freeperville ^ | 1-29-08 | self

Posted on 01/29/2008 1:43:23 PM PST by icwhatudo

Did not see it posted yet, here we go folks!


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: fl2008; kickitaway; mccain; mitt; mittens; mormowned; romney; sawitoff
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To: Cinnamon Girl

We could always hold his feet to the fire anytime he tries to go astray. Let’s not forget how Harriet Myers and Amnesty were beat back it can be done again.


2,841 posted on 01/29/2008 7:23:06 PM PST by eaglestar
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To: mware

Hillary still doesnt get more than 49.9% of the vote


2,842 posted on 01/29/2008 7:23:08 PM PST by BurbankKarl
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To: Thumper1960; SE Mom
Look, I understand your disappointment that Mitt did not win--I'd be just as disappointed had it been McCain who lost. But, neither of you are looking at the "big picture" and it's right before you on Fox news as I type: Add up tonight's Democratic votes, in a contest that didn't even matter, and compare them to the GOP totals. You'll see that they are just about even with Hillary besting every Republican who ran today.

Bottom line: the GOP is going to have to have a candidate that appeals to moderate Democrats and Independents across the country to win. Do you REALLY think that is someone like Mitt Romney?

Florida is a bellwether state and the 4th most populated in the U.S.--If Mitt couldn't win in a closed primary, how the heck do you think he could win against the Clinton slime machine?

2,843 posted on 01/29/2008 7:23:35 PM PST by meandog (Please pray for future President McCain--day minus 336 and counting! <b>Vote Mitt=Get Billary!))
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To: mware

Hillary: I get the authentic kooks in the Black Caucus!


2,844 posted on 01/29/2008 7:23:37 PM PST by unspun (Mike Huckabee: Government's job is "protect us, not have to provide for us." Duncan Hunter knows.)
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To: Hattie

The hottie he is with now with all the face redos. It isn’t a pretty story, google it sometime

McCain is dispicable


2,845 posted on 01/29/2008 7:23:37 PM PST by lookout88 (Combat search and rescue officer's dad.)
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To: unspun

2,846 posted on 01/29/2008 7:23:43 PM PST by Petronski (I didn't leave the GOP. The GOP left me.)
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To: JohnBovenmyer

At least they’re not lying about being Islamists..lol

Obama is a nightmare.


2,847 posted on 01/29/2008 7:23:43 PM PST by Khepri (Fred Thompson, he's a hundred miles away son - READY TO STRIKE!)
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To: End Times Crusader

McCain is in such poor mental and physical health that he couldn’t get hired in a McDonald’s today, yet we’re expected to choose this him as President????


2,848 posted on 01/29/2008 7:24:08 PM PST by Dagnabitt (Disease, Dishonesty, Disloyalty - The McCain Advantage!)
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To: End Times Crusader
"You do realize that that Constitution Party endorses Ron Paul’s cut-and-run Iraq policy?"

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One point against them. Need I recite the list of points against McStain? I will NEVER vote for a socialist, even if he does have an R by his name.

And I don't say that lightly. I've voted for every Republican presidential, senatorial and congressional candidate on my ballot since 1980. But I will NOT vote for John McCain.

Never.

Hank
ps, I wish this piece of socialist filth would learn to at least string two sentences together without reminding us of his time as a POW. WE GET IT, MCSTAIN!

Hank

2,849 posted on 01/29/2008 7:24:21 PM PST by County Agent Hank Kimball
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To: CharlesWayneCT

“the scary thing is that Clinton got more votes than McCain, even when Floria’s democratic primary didn’t even count.”

I don’t think so. How many R’s voted over against how many D’s? Because the R vote went to five different candidates.


2,850 posted on 01/29/2008 7:24:56 PM PST by Marie2 (I used to be disgusted. . .now I try to be amused.)
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To: La Enchiladita

Do the majority of republicans depend on MSM for “news?”

Yes, unfortunately, and also the whole state apparatus came out for McInsane after Crist (the dealmaker) threw his endorsement behind McQueeg. That meant lots of last day robocalls for McPain, flyers, local media attention, etc. Plus all the old folks voted for one of their own, himself an old fossil, plus the Vets who believe McStain is one of them in spite of his wanting to close Gitmo, calling waterboarding torture, and wanting to have terrorists tried in criminal courts rather than military courts. Unfortunately, for a variety of reasons, Florida’s population is an anomaly that favored McQueeg. Unfortunately, because of the primary schedule, FL is the last primary before Super Tuesday, so now McInsane has a big boost going into Super Tuesday, and I now believe he is probably unstoppable. The Republicans out there are now to politically ignorant to figure out what is happening and how they are being manipulated by the MSM. They are too watered down now by political correctness and what they are being fed by the media. I’m retired now, but I am about to go into psychological retirement from politics also. I’ll know how bad it is after Super Tuesday, which it appears will be my last political hurrah. My disgust knows no bounds. The Repubican Party is dead.


2,851 posted on 01/29/2008 7:25:07 PM PST by flaglady47 (The only one that stands between McQueeg and the Presidency is Romney)
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To: CindyDawg

Please don’t get me wrong (after all I voted for Fred),I’m just putting out a “what if?” Everyone voted their beliefs,it’s just that McCain is benefiting from the crowded field and with so many “winner-take-all” primaries like Florida’s ahead,the Senator from Arizona may win the nomination with a small minority of the popular GOP vote and an even smaller number of conservative votes.
Just as the DNC,MSN and HRC planned all along.


2,852 posted on 01/29/2008 7:25:19 PM PST by Happy Rain
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To: Travis McGee

The pathetic thing is, McCain will lose the Latino vote handily to Hillary in November, just as Bush lost the Latino vote in both 2000 & 2004. All their pandering doesn’t do a bit of good.


2,853 posted on 01/29/2008 7:25:36 PM PST by puroresu (Enjoy ASIAN CINEMA? See my Freeper page for recommendations (updated!).)
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To: rodguy911
<> Sounds like a smart customer
2,854 posted on 01/29/2008 7:25:38 PM PST by bluebeak
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To: Travis McGee

Sorry, your shamnesty outrage may play well on FR, but most Americans are not terrified of Paco flipping burgers at Wendys. If you don’t believe me ask yourself how Tancredo and Hunter are doing?

Pray for W and Our Troops


2,855 posted on 01/29/2008 7:25:56 PM PST by bray (Too Cynical to be a Lib)
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To: Petronski

I believe that Huckabee determined the Republican nominee.I think his first place finish in Iowa got him enough momentum to take out Thompson by splitting the vote in South Carolina.Viewed as a southern conservative he probably took votes from Romney in Florida.The democrats have basically “two” candidates and the Republicans have “too” many.
That being said the people have voted and McCain seems unbeatable in the primaries.After all people get the kind of government they deserve.


2,856 posted on 01/29/2008 7:25:59 PM PST by Howe_D_Dewty
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To: pillut48
I heard on the news today that McCain spent MORE than Romney in Florida!

Thats surprising, why would Mitt hold back? In this next phase, money may be less of an advantage because of the huge number of markets.

2,857 posted on 01/29/2008 7:26:14 PM PST by Tramonto (No se puede!)
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To: Tennessee Nana

There are 22 states and three terrorities that vote after super Tuesday....Through July 12.

http://politics.nytimes.com/election-guide/2008/primaries/republicanprimaries/index.html


2,858 posted on 01/29/2008 7:26:14 PM PST by TheLion
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To: puroresu

I will do my part to keep her out.


2,859 posted on 01/29/2008 7:26:15 PM PST by RDTF
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To: Pravious
Yeah, you're right. However, it tends to be human nature. Identity politics is very hard to work against. We say we don't do it in the Republican party, but by and large Evangelicals went for Huckabee, military went for McCain, and Romney blows everyone else away in areas with a lot of LDS.

Every strong candidate has to have a base, and that base is usually from some sort of identity politics.

2,860 posted on 01/29/2008 7:26:23 PM PST by Richard Kimball
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