Posted on 01/30/2008 5:47:25 AM PST by meandog
HARACTER COUNTS; some- times it counts in the count. In Florida, Arizona Sen. John McCain yesterday won the Republican primary, overcoming big disadvantages favoring former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. What disadvantages? Let us, well, count.
Mr. Romney built a huge campaign apparatus in Florida over the last year, while Mr. McCain, since his campaign nearly expired last summer, was able to do very little organizationally in the Sunshine State.
Many Floridians voted early--before Mr. McCain picked up the endorsements of Florida U.S. Sen. Mel Marinez and the state's governor, John Crist (to say nothing of Sly Stallone).
The number of voters self-identifying as conservatives rose from 50 percent four years ago to 60 percent this year, and a solid majority preferred Mr. Romney. Independents--a group that has been kind to Mr. McCain--could not vote in the GOP primary.
Yet Mr. McCain pulled out a victory, in no small part, surely, because he seems simply more genuine than his chief GOP opponent, whose stances on key issues such as abortion and immigration have changed with the office he's pursuing. By contrast, Mr. McCain backed a "surge" in Iraq three years before it was ordered, and later when that position badly hurt him in the polls. His "heterodoxies" (ask any of the talk-radio gasbags) on immigration and the environment, whether one agrees with him or not, show him to be a man, not an ambition-twisted taffy stick.
Mr. McCain, now the bona fide Republican front runner, may have saved the angry right from itself. Among Republicans nationally, Mr. McCain has a 71 percent favorable rating, and Independents like him. He could win--and not just the GOP nomination. Never count character out.
“The one thing you can say about Mitt is that he will tell anyone he is almost anything they want him to be.”
Not to argue but how does that make him any different from any of the other SLOB’s that are running for POTUS ??
Actually, I don't agree at all. Not so much with the thought itself, but the notion that you're going to stop violent felons from possessing weapons by passing laws that infringe upon the 2nd Amendment rights of law abiding citizens. Felon are, by definition, law breakers. It's already a crime for them to have weapons. It's already a crime for a dealer to sell to them. You're not going to change their lawbreaking ways by closing imaginary "loopholes" manufactured by anti-gun leftist politicians (like your governor in Virginia).
I do not have a problem with private dealings between individuals who know something about one another but I do when it comes to sales to just anyone off the street.
How do you suppose we'd enforce any law that tried to distinguish between the two scenarios? What if I talk to the guy off the street for a couple of hours and get to know something about him? Can I then sell to him? Do we mandate a "getting to know you period" between private sellers and buyers? Honestly, how can anything short of absolute government regulation of every exchange of firearms prevent what you describe?
What you want is for your gun laws to be fool-proof, ironclad guarantees against every conceive risk inherent in firearms ownership. It's as much an unattainable Utopian fantasy as world peace or ending hunger. All you're doing is creating barriers between decent people and the means to protect themselves from criminals who don't give a damn about the law.
I hope meandog is a female because he has certainly been
bitch slapped :-)
Because the senile oldsters in FL get their news from the MSM, and the MSM has been pushing McMecha. ‘Splains it all.
I really, think there is no political there there with Mitt. I have no idea, politically who Mitt is, or is covering up, or was and doesn’t want to be anymore.
He reminds me, a little bit, of Peter Sellers character in the movie, Being There.
Poor Mitt, a victim of evangelicals in Iowa, independents in New Hampshire, elderly in Florida. And of course kicked around by the press.
I wonder who is the next group to abuse poor Mittens?
Mitt. Victim. Pathetic.
You have the right not to vote for McCain, or for whomever is the GOP nominee. Personally I just can’t do it, although it sure is tough to be “broken glass” when I like neither Romney nor McCain.
McCain won because Rudy and Huck drew off 500,000+ votes.
I read your profile...have you ever been in a mental institution?
Huckabee knows he cannot win and he is puprosely helping McCain out. He is a religious nut who cannot stand the thought of a Mormon in charge of the country. He was so obvious in his tag-teaming of Romney before the Florida vote and his refusal to drop out like every other candidate who has no chance at this point. Shame on people still voting for this ass-clown.
Why would Mitt get the bigoted, Mormon hating( Mitt supporter words ) evangelical vote from Huck? Why would Mitt get Rudy voters?
Instead of giving me ONE decent reason to vote for McMecha, you give me drivel instead.
McMecha! That is a good one.
I will not vote for Juan McMecha under any circumstances. If this lying meglomaniac is the best the Republicans can come up with, then I would rather see the Dems win and screw up the country and let them take the blame.
It’s been my experience on FR that Mitt supporters on the second post become insulting.
It is an odd phenomenon and does give some clue as to his supporters desperation and joined at the hip attachments.
It doesn’t bother me. I kind of view it like when a ant pile is kicked over.
I don’t believe I have see any other supporters so much denigrate every other candidates. Fred was too old. McCain too. Huck and his Republican voters are bigots. Rudy’s a New York mafia crook. And of course Mittbots wonder why voters don’t rush into the light.
Interesting.
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