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.
But I would be perfectly sane if I supported McMecha, right? It really strikes me how vicious MCainiacs can be, just like that loser they are supporting.
The math at this point breaks down -
Huckabee can’t possibly win.
Evangelicals voting for the Huckster, help McLame.
When offered a choice between a Socialist (Klinton) and a Democrat (McLame), Liberals will vote straight Socialists every time.
Clinton will beat McCain in the General election.
OK I am not that familiar with the POW issues for the last while or so. I can see your point though. Probably not a good way to go about things for sure.
Then give me a reason for voting for McMecha other than that he was a war hero. That’s usually the only thing McCainiacs can come up with, and I say, “So what!” So was George McGovern.
McMecha could beat Clinton, esp. if the Dems are severly divided, though by election time I am fairly sure they will return to the lovefest. I think a lot of senior Dems will vote for McMecha if Obama gets the nod for the Dems. A lot of Hispanics may also vote for McMecha, over Obama, knowing his record supporting shamnesty.
Why do we as conservative have to be locked into these frauds? We got round two coming up? People really need to think outside the box.
“However, going with the globalists could wipe such numbers out as meaningless distinctions, imho.”
oh i hear ya, i have serious reservations about the man. that being said if he is the nominee i am still going to hold my nose and vote for him in the general election. sure i wont like it but i have come to terms that if these are the choices then i will go with him.
I need to put his head on top of my ‘nuke’, lol.
And I said all along, LICENSED dealers. So, do you still want to take the bet? There will NEVER be a way to track private sales, legal or illegal.
That may well be true...but she also would absolutely cream Mittens with the Clinton slime machine and take a more-than-60-vote majority into the Senate with her...there'd be no stopping any program. At least if McCain should lose (which I don't believe will happen) we still have a chance to filibuster her judicial nominations.
You mean like castigating Clinton for his pecadillos while he was guilty of doing the same exact thing?
I am not completely satisfied with Romney, but at least he knows how an economy works.
Google "Bain Co. + outsourcing" and you'll find the issue that the Dems would absolutely hang the Romulan with on the economy!
You're living in a dreamworld. McCain is going to keep conservatives home in droves. That's going to kill the republicans in the Senate races.
And even if they could filibuster, the dems will nuke the option faster than Richard Reid at Sears Tower. You can thank Loathsome John for leaving them that gift, to go along with all those vacant benches they'll be filling.
Jose Padilla, dumba**.
Go back and read post 113:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1961918/posts?page=113#113
I said LICENSED dealer.
Are they allowed to just make this crap up?
John McCain will NEVER get my vote and that stands right down to he against Hillary when it counts.
If they GOP nominates this traitorous bastard, then I'm no longer a Republican
You're living in the dreamword...there are a hell of a lot FEWER conservatives these days than when Reagan came on the scene. Ever go into a Walmart? Convenience store? Shopping mall? What do you see? I'll tell you what you see: You see 20-and-30-year-olds with tattoos and body piercings. You see a lot of single moms, you might even see groups of youths together that resemble gangs. You see gay people together and mixed-race couples.
Mitt said in his concession speech last night (words to the effect, "...and we're going to ensure when two young people make a baby they get married first!"
At that point I laughed my butt off...what's he gonna do, stuff the genie back in the bottle?
Don't get me wrong, I loved the 50s when I could hang out in my neighborhood with other kids and parents never worried. Girls were virgins when they got married. When the "class slut" got pregnant in high school, she went off to live with Aunt Mary to have the baby because there was no such thing as abortion. No one knew what the word "marijuana" meant in school and the worst thing you ever did was swipe a cigarette out of your old man's pack and went out in the woods to puff it. But those days gone, so's your dream. Fiscal conservatism is here so let's concentrate on making that work instead.
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Bumperooo!
While eating and drinking.....
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