Posted on 01/29/2008 11:06:14 PM PST by Checkers
Assuming there is no shocking revelation or health issue, the GOP nomination is over. Conservatives need to start practicing the phrase "Nominee presumptive John McCa....."
Sorry, I can't say it. Not yet.
But it's true. When the campaign comes here to Massachusetts on February 5th, I'll proudly cast my vote for any option on the GOP ballot other than You-Know-Who. But it will be a futile gesture. Mr. "1/3rd Of The GOP Primary Vote" is going to be the nominee.
He's going to win the big, left-leaning states on Tuesday. Huckabee will stay in and deny Romney a one-on-one contest for GOP voters that Captain Amnesty would almost certainly lose. The result: More wins for He Who Must Not Be Named, and fewer wins for Romney—regardless of delegate count. Florida has launched the one ship that Romney's money and Rush Limbaugh cannot stop: The U.S.S. Inevitable. It's gonna happen. Even if there were a realistic pathway to stop him, the media have seized control of the process now and are declaring him inevitable. He is, after all, the favorite son of the New York Times.
So it is over. Finished. In November, we'll be sending out our most liberal, least trustworthy candidate vs. to take on Hillary Clinton—perhaps not more liberal than Barack Obama, but certainly far less trustworthy. And the worst part for the Right is that McCain will have won the nomination while ignoring, insulting and, as of this weekend, shamelessly lying about conservatives and conservatism.
You think he supported amnesty six months ago? You think he was squishy on tax cuts and judicial nominees before? Wait until he has the power to anger every conservative in America, and feel good about it.
Every day, he dreams of a world filled with happy Democrats and insulted Republicans.
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Haul out the whips and the broken glass! Try and put lipstick on THIS pig, why doncha'?
Never worry. I'll be right here on the sidelines jeering you on...
Sorry, but it ain’t over till it’s over and there are still a lot of delegates to be won. Anything can happen, McCain is pretty old, he could buy the farm before the end or something else could come out about him or he could slip up and show his true colors. I’m not giving up yet, also remember Who is in charge of the big picture.
Rush left no doubt in this listener’s mind that he was for FRED, and dislikes McCain a great deal, politically speaking.
Romney is his backup, and he’s not totally enthused about him.
If McCain is the nominee, the Republican Party leadership may not see much of a revolt expressed to it directly, but I can tell you they will see it expressed in some maner.
I will be glad to join any former Republcans who wish to get signatures to put a new party on the State of California ballot starting in 2010.
By 2012, we should be a good part of the way to replacing a party that has basicly said - - to those of us who have supported it our whole lives.
After Super Tuesday, I will be registering as an independent. I think it would be a great idea if tens of millions of us did the same thing.
Those of you who want to vote this fall, could still do it. It sure would send a message though.
If their registrations dropped by 75% or so, it would send a very powerful message, even if folks did wind up voting for the RP nominee this fall.
I won’t be, but others will obviously feel compelled to do so.
~”When Fred dropped out, that should have been a warning sign to us, we missed it, now we may see John McCain in the Oval Office and stepping on us as he goes in.”~
No way. Won’t happen, not in a million years. If we don’t see a miracle, get used to “First Husband Bill Clinton.”
I’d have been OK with Fred. I’ll be OK with Romney... sort of. But as someone who first found FR because I was a staunch support of the Swift Boat Veterans and POW’s for Truth, a group who was insulted by McCain and never received an apology, I’m of the “he can go to h-e-double-hockey-sticks” persuasion.
“McCain will have won the nomination while ignoring, insulting and, as of this weekend, shamelessly lying about conservatives and conservatism.”
He will have won the nomination mostly by winning primaries in blue states, and getting the democrat and “independent” voters to vote for him. Of course, they won’t vote for him in November, but they have done their damage to our party...and I haven’t even gotten to vote yet.
Hillary or Obama will be the next POTUS. Man, that sounds terrible.
As can we all. Doesn't change the fact that he's the most likely Republican nominee.
Some years ago, about four, I think. I posted a comment that described a observation that I had finally figured out, and now knew what it meant.
I saw the connection between what was reported on CNN and MSNBC and the gyrations within the Conservative movement. I thought at the time that the MSM was beginning to learn how to manipulate conservatives.
Well........I was right. The MSM is making and crowning McCain and there is little or no opposition to it, other that Rush and a few brilliant but not quoted writers. I feel that over the past four years, that even those successful and brilliant conservatives have at time fallen for the bait that the MSM eagerly provided, like the Ports fiasco and others.
Each one of these events split the movement further and isolated it from the balance of the republican party and we see the results today.
Can't fix it.......not now.
But we must try anyway. We have too much to lose.
BRAVO!
I will be doing the same!
I wish I had a ping list. ;o)
If they are, they will hold onto it as a safeguard. If McLame wins the nomination, you can count on the media turning on him in a heartbeat, led by the NYSlimes. Endorsement or no endorsement, if it comes down to McLame vs. Hitlery or McLame vs Saint Barack, you can bet they will use every liberal tactic to destroy McLame.
“Hillary or Obama will be the next POTUS. Man, that sounds terrible.”
At least we get the HOUSE back in 2010.
Good for you.
“At least we get the HOUSE back in 2010.”
Let’s hope somebody at the GOP gets the message.
Classic chicken-egg question — you can’t get votes without money, and you can’t get money without votes.
McCain got votes. Money will follow.
Well, I'll say one thing for Michael Graham, he's got good taste in whiskey.
we have to stop thinking that this McCain stuff is just the voters voting.....I don't believe it for a second...
its been orchestrated....
which is why perhaps Fred and Rudy did not have robust attitudes..they knew the fix was in from the beginning....
I guess we can be respectful of Romney and Paul for at least trying to stick it to the GOP elitist...
WE are the GOP.
Presumptive nominee Bob Dole...
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