“Conservatives? What conservatives? WE DON’ NEED NO STINKIN’ CONSERVATIVES IN THIS PARTY!!!”
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.
Vote for Mitt, contribute to his campaign, do what needs to be done, don’t give up now.
I really don’t see much difference between McCain and the dems.
McCain is for closing Guantanamo, so are the dems, he was against tax cuts, so were the dems, he thinks Hillary would be a good president, so do the dems, he was for amnesty, so are the dems. Sigh, I just can’t get myself to be excited about a McCain candidacy.
I really don’t see much difference between McCain and the dems.
McCain is for closing Guantanamo, so are the dems, he was against tax cuts, so were the dems, he thinks Hillary would be a good president, so do the dems, he was for amnesty, so are the dems. Sigh, I just can’t get myself to be excited about a McCain candidacy.
I haven’t forgotten how rude he was to Maria Shriver when she tried to ask him a question. The man was a poor loser back in 2000, very bad tempered.
No more sleazy liberals from Ratsachusetts ! Just say NO to Joe Isuzu Romney !
“But Mitt is the only one of the three without a big flaw.”
What planet has this guy been living on?
Romney is a serial flip-flopper with a YouTube treasure trove for the DNC, whose campaign staff has to run around behind him to tell the media what their boss just said is false.
No big flaws there. (sarc)
Between Romney and McCain...Romney is the only one of the two has a prayer of keeping Hillary out of the WH.
Which is why the Lamestream Media and Hillary want McCain.
No, no not at all.
Exactly!
I think McCain-Kennedy is almost certainly headed for the nomination now, but I continue to hope I’m wrong.
Nor will a large percentage of conservatives rally around this RINO.
There is no path to victory for Willard.
I don’t want McCain, but Romney makes McCain look like Reagan. This guy is beyond toxic nuclear waste, a pathological lying sleazebag liberal. He’ll lose to Hillary or Obama by 15%.
I like your spirit, Jan. This is the weirdest election season I have seen yet; still can’t explain the McCain resurgence except via the support from the media. And then, of course, his extremely filthy campaigning.
Hugh Hewitt is playing “Mack the Knife” on radio now... how appropriate: mcCAIN has sliced and diced this country at whim and will, all from bitterness and vengeance.
Republicans across the land need to wake up to his atrocities and vote against McCain and for Mitt Romney, FOR America. It is truly up to the people.
McCain says no to Romney also, so you are in InSane’s camp.
Exactly, precisely and truly!!!
The only thing I agree with McCain on is stopping the destructive liberal sleaze known as Joe Isuzu Romney.
I am in nobody’s camp because they’re ALL unacceptable liberal RINOs. You do know what “None of the above” means, don’t you ?
Produce the polling data. Scumney wouldn’t even carry my Republican state of TN in the general and there is NO rodent state he has a chance of carrying. He’s a big time LOSER, and deserves to get buried just like he did to the Massachusetts GOP.
AMEN La Enchiladita!
I am going to go on a major offense this next few days to educate as many in Colorado as I can about McCain.
The liberals already have the Democrat Party... voters should go vote there if they want a liberal...they have plenty to choose from.
Yup. The media is holding back the story until after the nom. I can’t believe how little press there has been in the past 8 years about Homewrecking Cindy and Gigolo John.
I think it's the same GOP elites who have been determined to hand the US over to Mexico--we've been disenfranchised by the primary process and the party insiders. McCain would never have carried SC in a closed primary. Martinez wanted McCain to get Florida.
I think it's been rigged for McCain in a lot of states. I also think he's Bush's choice because McCain worked so hard for amnesty.
That explains his friendship with Jean-Francois Kerree.
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