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.
Whoa-ho! I’ve been saying I’ll write in Montgomery Brewster ever since Ferd dropped out! Good show!
Her buried the Mass GOP?
You’re an uninformed dope.
He buried the Mass GOP?
You’re an uninformed dope.
LOL that is perfect.
I agree, Vote for Romney.
Nothing new. Politics is dirty, all the way around. This was covered in the 2000 election.
And use of push-polling in South Carolina lobbed a few rumors about the parentage of McCain’s “black” daughter. No, his daughter was not the result of a romantic liason with an African-American, as was implied. His daughter was adopted from Bangladesh while his wife Cindy was there doing charity work.
The media loved telling the false story. But this time in S. Carolina, McCain addressed that rumor early with the use of campaign literature.
Unfortunately those Republicans who vote for McCain can’t see that fact. They think McCain will be insulated from attacks because he is supposedly on friendly terms with the media. Get real. McCain will get savaged by them the minute his nomination was assured.
Yes he will. Welcome (back?) to FR.
My prediction is that Sen. John ‘Rodham’ McCain will collect enough delegates during the next few months to win, but will suffer some type of medical or physical emergency over the summer, prior to the Republican Convention.
The delegates at the Convention will thus be “allowed” to switch their votes, due to a decree from the RNC powers-that-be... and Mitt Romney (runner up in delegates) will emerge the GOP Presidential nominee.
Of course this won’t sit well with all the ‘open convention’ advocates who are still under the assumption that the RNC Chairman would select Duncan Hunter or Newt Gingrich if only the selection process is thrown wide open.
Your vote is the one that will put Mitt over the top, I predict.
Ping.
With Guiliani gone, all sorts of things could happen in next week's primaries which are unexpected.
As long as Guiliani supporters don't follow Rudy's sychophantical advice and support Sen. John 'Rodham' McCain.
And if Huckabee would come back to earth and ALSO drop out, the combined votes could make Romney the winner of a substantial number of upcoming states.
But alas, politics is nothing if not about egos.
Even a Baptist preacher, who one would think has common sense, can catch the political bug and begin to believe he is invincible.
Mormons who will vote for Romney simply because he's a Mormon are as much bigots as people that will not vote for a Mormon no matter what..
Ideally....you vote for someone who holds your political values....I can't believe most Mormons believe in gay marriage or abortion....but they will vote for Romney anyway...
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...
Don't forget that with Guiliani out of the running, many of his votes just might go to Romney -- which could put Romney on top.
As long as the Guiliani supporters don't follow Rudy's self-serving advice and support McCain.
I am going to vote. “None of the above.” Because there is no Conservative in the race.
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.
:-)
Going from a Conservative giant like Fred to a pathological lying liberal sleaze makes as much sense as dropping an anvil on your privates from a great height. You should still cast your vote for Fred.
Romney's a she ? Well, then, yes SHE did.
Same thing I'm hearing here in TN from those who keep up with things. I'm just worried about the folks who don't. Sigh.
Tom Clancy did just that...I don't see anyone not buying his books or watching his movies....
let's consider the real questions of this campaign....not Romneys religion or McCains affair....
we killed off Rudy...we killed off Tancredo...we killed off Fred...and Duncan....WHY ARE WE KILLING OUR OWN?
And Obama voted "present" on the tough issues. You are no better.
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