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.
“What are you gonna do when your Precious Willard loses ?”
Write him in for spite. Or not vote at all if it’s McInsane. I’ll vote for the rest of the ticket, but not the top. Or maybe I’ll write your name in as President. You’d be about as good a choice as McInsane, Hitlery, or Barak Hussein Obama. A little worse, perhaps, but close.
That I like sane and intelligent women. Yes. Crazy, mind-numbed robot Stepford women that support Romney can take a hike. :-)
You’d write me in for President ? Aw, you’re so sweet. You tryin’ to butter me up.
Of course, I’m a year and a half too young to qualify, but if I were President, I’d build that damn wall on day #1.
“Of course, I’m a year and a half too young to qualify, but if I were President, I’d build that damn wall on day #1.”
You know, that’s about the first thing you’ve ever said that I actually agree with. Maybe I WILL write your name in. :-)
“That I like sane and intelligent women.”
Your missing two letters in front of the word sane.
Seems as though many FReepers are putting on metaphorical beer goggles now that the bar is about ready to close. I suppose when the desperation is almost palpable, anything looks good, excluding McCain of course. Brokering a convention seems to be the only alternative...
Of course, even if we get a brokered convention at this point, the cast of characters applying for the job are going to look like the same creatures in the barroom scene in Star Wars.
I wish this article was right; can’t stand McCain. But, the establishment is behind him now. I’m afraid this liberal, mean-spirited, hot-headed, old fart will be the GOP nominee.
It’s time to organize THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY OF AMERICA.
Where have all the True Conservative Republicans gone?
Aside from Fred, they didn’t want to get in this pathetic Fellinesque sideshow. Who can blame them ?
Interesting. He's never given me that impression. I admit I haven't followed Mitt that much, as I was Fred-head early on.
Of late, I'm of a mind to turn Washington D.C. upside down and shake out all of the rat-turd inhabitents, and start anew. The one person capable of doing this being Ron Paul- is a guy who's left me cringing during the debates.
Thanks for the posting. Is there a party or is it a call to form one?
When McCain returned to the United States in 1973 after more than five years as a prisoner of war, he found his wife was a different person. The accident “left her 4 inches shorter and on crutches, and she had gained a good deal of weight.”
Yeah, well, that's when RINOs have a God given right to $^it can their loving, loyal wives and "trade up", isn't it?
Yeah! You got that right!
Here's hoping for a brokered convention where Fred becomes the alternative.
A conservative can dream can't he?
Re: Your #173 post highlighting the Mormons Against Romney Web site, don’t ya just wish that when it comes to Romney, these religionists would just stop bringing religion into a religious-free zone! [sarc]
I’m convinced that using the divisions between Orthodox Christianity and Mormonism has been a Romney strategy from the start, exploiting the division to suppress Conservative Christian voting in the primaries by playing the biogtry and ‘you hate Mormons’ cards. It is an obscenity so very typical of an amoral puffed up Northeastern liberal bishop in Mormonism ...
have you seen the real clear politics compilation?
Even taking out the idioticly obvious biased FNC Dynamics poll, mccain is up between 2 to 10 points.
Rasmussen which has been close has him at 2.
We need to be counting delegates.
Does anyone have a real chart? (the the intratrade nonsense)
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