Posted on 01/30/2008 3:17:10 PM PST by jdm
The United States of America's next president won't be its first president of Italian ancestry (as Rudy Giuliani hopes), because the Republicans won't nominate a person who does not share the Republicans' traditional pro-life, pro-personal morality values; or the first former prisoner-of-war (as John McCain still yearns), because now he's too old for the grueling job and previously he was too inclined to break with most Republicans and join with Democrats (McCain-Feingold, Kennedy-McCain, Gang of Fourteen); or the first Baptist minister (as Mike Huckabee prays), because he's not up to the job, he's not the best choice and one president born in Hope, Arkansas was one too many.
But there WILL be big change.
The next president will be the first female president, or the first half-black president (Barack's mother was white and ignoring that is...not right), or the first Mormon president.
Much of the media really would prefer Obama versus McCain, and have been broadcasting, reporting and editorializing accordingly, but the politically adept Clintons will do whatever it takes to win the Democrat nomination.
Nevertheless, in the end, enough Republicans will refuse to succumb to religious bigotry and reject a monogamous Mormon who shares their basic values for a man who divorced his first wife and married a rich, much younger divorcee whose family could support his political ambitions.
Wikipedia: "In 1979, while attending a military reception in Hawaii, McCain met and fell in love with Cindy Lou Hensley, 17 years his junior, a teacher from Phoenix, Arizona who was the daughter of James Willis Hensley, a wealthy Anheuser-Busch distributor and wife Marguerite Smith. By now it was clear that McCain's naval career was stalled; he would never be promoted to admiral as his grandfather and father had been. McCain filed for and obtained an uncontested divorce from his wife Carol in Florida on April 2, 1980; he gave her a generous settlement, including houses in Virginia and Florida and financial support for her ongoing medical treatments, and they would remain on good terms. McCain and Hensley were married on May 17, 1980 in Phoenix, Arizona, with Senators William Cohen and Gary Hart as best man and groomsman. McCain's children were very upset with him and did not attend the wedding, but after several years they reconciled with him and Cindy."
"Living in Phoenix, McCain went to work for his new father-in-law Jim Hensley's large Anheuser-Busch beer distributorship as Vice President of Public Relations, where he gained political support among the local business community, meeting powerful figures such as banker Charles Keating, Jr. ..., all the while looking for an electoral opportunity."
No surprise that the divorced McCain paid tribute to the twice-divorced Giuliani during the Republicans' Florida debate!
It will be Hill v. Mitt, and then Mitt, even though the Clintons will place the Mormon card.
Make no mistake: Team Clinton will not be stopped by a young son of a black man and a white woman who started running for President a year after becoming a rookie Senator and speaks of hope and change without particulars.
Barack Obama's wife Michelle, young and naive herself, admitted that her husband is too inexperienced and naive to be President.
Michelle (in a fundraising appeal to supporters): "We knew getting into this race that Barack would be competing with Senator Clinton and President Clinton at the same time. What we didn't expect, at least not from our fellow Democrats, are the win-at-all costs tactics we've seen recently. We didn't expect misleading accusations that willfully distort Barack's record."
Weren't the Obamas paying attention during the Clinton Administration?
The United States surely needs a competent and realistic president, like Mitt.
The media has generated excitement, but it has not and will not succeed in blocking a Mitt v. Hill final.
In February 2007, in an article titled "In 2008, Hill versus Mitt Should Be It," I wrote:
"The top two questions are (1) who will be the Democrat nominee and (2) who will be the Republican nominee.
The answers (as of now): (1) Hillary and (2) Mitt Romney."
"After the Democrats successfully nominated Franklin Delano Roosevelt for president four times, the United States Constitution was amended to impose a two-term limit.
"The Clintons figured out the best way around that was to team up and each serve two terms. As they declared in 2000, they are a two-for-one package."
"The 2008 Democrat presidential nomination is Hillary's to lose and she's not likely to do so.
"Barack Hussein Obama is the current media darling, but the rookie Senator from Illinois is no Abraham Lincoln and not presidential timber."
"Of the top-tier Republican presidential aspirants--Rudy Giuliani, John McCain, Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney--Mitt Romney is the best viable alternative."
"Senator McCain has been pro-life, but he had his chance in 2000 and he has not matched the political skills of Mitt Romney in enacting a viable universal health-care program in Massachusetts."
"Who better to oppose Hill: Mitt Romney, 59, a Brigham Young valedictorian who earned his B.A. summa cum laude and then graduated from a joint JD/MBA program coordinated between Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School, was named a Baker Scholar and graduated cum laude from the law school and in the top 5 percent of his business school class, or John McCain, 70, who graduated fifth from the bottom of his United States Naval Academy class and isn't getting younger?"
In May 2007, in "Still Hill v. Mitt, Others Slow to Quit," I noted:
"This year's first Democrat presidential debate helped Hillary Clinton secure her stranglehold on the 2008 Democrat presidential nomination. Her Far Left "primary" competitors--a rookie United States Senator who would do better running for rock star (Barack Obama) and a one-term Senator whose home state went Republican when he was his party's vice presidential candidate in 2004--allow her to position herself for the general election by seeming mature and moderate."
"This year's first Republican presidential debate allowed Mitt Romney to be presidential while his chief rivals--John McCain and Rudy Giuliani--were trying too hard, respectively, to be young and energetic enough for the job and to be content whether Roe v. Wade is overruled or reaffirmed."
"Rudy said during the second debate that 'Rudy McRomney' would be a good candidate."
"But Mitt is the only one of the three without a big flaw."
"What is especially noteworthy is that viewers called the debate for Mitt, while knowledgeable observers tended to put too much emphasize on Rudy's moment (courtesy of Congressman Ron Paul) and too little of Mitt's thoughtful responses and consistent (and reassuring) presidential demeanor."
The Republicans' Florida debate demonstrated that the strong winner, Mitt Romney, has developed Mittmentum and is on course to election in November, despite the Clintons and some religious bigotry.
And yet, I can tell you with absolute certainty, McCain’s first wife speaks well of him, and that’s going back to just a few years after their divorce.
Same here in Middle TN
What was it Rush said about Mitt, that women see in him a man who would never cheat on them? And then he affectionately called all such female Mitt supporters "Mittens."
Well, Senator McCain's boorish behavior above WHILE MARRIED is every wife's worst nightmare. He seems proud of his great moment of Tom Cruising (as in the film Top Gun) the lovely girl away from all other suitors despite his faithful wife who had waited for years for him while he was a POW. But McCain was "in loooooove." So it's all OK. Just like Woody and Soon-Yi.
I ask you. Is this a man, who, armed with a vial of Cialis, would be able to resist a cute intern's thong flash? Perhaps Senator Navy McCain is a security risk.
That very well could be.
I am voting my conscience and Mitt was the last one standing. Here was my reasoning as to how I ruled out the others:
Fred Thompson : abortion lobbyist
Johnny Mac : restricts pro-life freedom of speech
Mike Huckster : releases criminals that abort adults
Rudy Ghouliani : pro-death and proud of it
Sorry to get back so late. My dying father wanted to know who was winning the (R)convention 1976. I had to supply him with updates. He was pulling for Reagan. He had been a Democrat all his life. He was hoping Reagan would win. He never got to see Reagan win 1980.
Mitt has been endorsed by Dr. John Willke, founder of the pro-life movement.
I would say he passed the test of pro-life.
If McC is the nominee everyone will know all about his change of partners including things that are untrue. MSM will see to that.
Romney Violated Massachusetts Constitution by Ordering ‘Same-Sex Marriage’ [the URL addy is www.lifesite.net, btw]
44 U.S. pro-family leaders signed letter asking him to recant illegal orders
Meg Jalsevac | HARRISBURG, PA, January 19, 2007
And you must have missed this 2002 campaign video of Romney:
I find it odd that any pro-life organization would endorse someone who not only has campaigned on a pro-choice position, but also with someone who is helping to inculcate homosexuality in the public schools and has illegally forced same-sex marriages within MA. That's certainly not any organization that I would donate to.
“As they [the Clintons] declared in 2000, they are a two-for-one package” seems to me that was back in 1992.
President Clintons. Obama is not a contender. It does not matter how many delegates he amasses short of 90% or so. The Clintons are a criminal enterprise with capabilities as great as the Mafia dons had in the 50s and 60s or more and in a less limited arena. Obama is mortal and subject to illness and injury. He will not be the Democrat nominee.
And his judicial appointments will be little better than the Democrats. Whatever he may promise(he doesn’t like openly conservative men like Alito) he will not get good judges approved. He will make good nominations then will replace them when they are rejected with judges suggested by the folks on whom he has to rely for confirmation. Souters are the best we can hope for and there will not be many that good.
I am beyond sick of articles that turn a blind eye to Romney’s many, many flaws as a candidate and blame his lack of support on his religion. The GOP establishment called folks who opposed Harriet Miers sexist and elitist; when we opposed amnesty we were accused of racism and nativism. Now we’re accused of being anti-Mormon.
What a joke. Can you imagine four years of this if the guy were president?
??? In the case of Fred Thompson, your assertion is at least so far, provably false.
What health issues did his first wife have?
She had been severely injured in an automobile crash while he was a POW...
the infowarrior
“financial support for her ongoing medical treatments
What health issues did his first wife have?”
She was in an auto accident and severely injured. She stuck by John McCain all the time he was a POW, and in spite of the fact that he himself had been crippled up from his plane going down and his imprisonment, he couldn’t deal with his wife’s injuries and ended up dumping her for a young rich blond heiress to a fortune. Heeeeeeeeere’s Johnny!
Mitt’s dad, George, was born in a Mormon colony in northern Mexico to American parents. The Mormons had set up three colonies in northern Mexico in the 1800s and George was born there. They fled the colonies in the early 1900s during the Poncho Villa upheaval in the north. George Romney was able to run for president in the 60s because he was born to American parents, albeit in Mexico. So Mitt doesn’t have Mexican ancestry, just ancestors that lived in Mexico.
it strikes me that more people would consider Romney if his legions would back off and stop trying to intimidate others thru their “bigotry” claims....look in the mirror first...
There is a big difference between voting for a candidate because of love of your religion and the fact that the candidate is also of your religion, as versus voting for A candidate because you hate or are prejudiced against someone else’s religion. Do you understand the distinction?
“I am enjoying watching your lying little liberal twit Joe Isuzu Romney go down in flames. I next look forward to the squishy sound of the lemmings committing mass-seppaku when their fearless leader bites the big one (politically speaking).
I will laugh and laugh and laugh, because nobody in the campaign deserves what’s coming to him more than that assclown and his short-bus riding troops.”
You know, you do not exhibit normal human behavior. You really ought to vote for Capt. McQueeg. The two of you both have similar personality traits of vindictiveness and blind hatred. And both of you are small men, in the psychological sense. And your pit-bull tenacity to repeat the same slanders over and over and over again, ad nauseum.
By the way, are you married to Tennessee Nana?
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