Could This Be Possible?

Peter N. Lewis

[plewis1250]

Okay, so this evening was like a glass of cold water hitting me in the face.

The GOP is on its way to nominating McCain as our Presidential candidate. If this happens, I WILL NOT vote Republican this Presidential election.

Here is my question, could Huckabee or Romney drop out, and endorse the other candidate, and request their delegates to join them in that support?

Could a VP promise from either of these men, with egos set aside, save the conservative vote?

I am willing to vote for EITHER of those two men for POTUS, and am willing to bet if the two were paired up, most conservatives would be willing to as well, especially considering the alternative.

I find it so laughable that McCain is calling himself the "true conservative" when nothing is further from the truth...

So, once again, is it possible for either of the candidates to do this?

From what I am reading on the Internet, I believe only a very few of Romney/Huckabee's delegates are hard, and could vote either direction once they convention comes around.

(http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P08/R.phtml)

Just an idea I wanted to see what you guys thought of this, and if it would be possible or not.

- plewis1250

[Types_with_Fist]

... and he probably knows this. He wants to get back at conservatives for rejecting him in 2000.

It's worse than that... he wants to be president and actually believes what he is pushing. He believes he IS a conservative.

[singfreedom]

Jeff, I have been working Republican campaigns for over 50 years, and this is the FIRST time, in all those years, that I don’t have a candidate, that I have enough confidence in, to vote for.

McCain is mentally unstable, Huckster is not, in any way shape or form, qualified to be President, and Mr. Romney will probably not be an available choice.

Now, do you, finally, grasp the gravity of the situation?

My last best choice is not voting. Now, for a person who has not only voted, but participated (and invested) heavily in the election process for a looooong time, this is a very bitter pill indeed.

It has become apparent, after the last 2 losing election cycles, that AFTER the loss many well intentioned cheerleaders crawl out of the woodwork. That’s great, glad to have them, but where were they BEFORE the election, you know, making the calls,going door-to-door, doing the research, going to meeting, etc.?

[singfreedom]

I LOVE that top graphic. It is so illustrative.

[singfreedom]

...nobody could make up for Huckabee’s shortcomings.

[CDHart]

There's something wrong with this picture. Only a small percentage of voters have had their say, and yet now they all say that McCain "won." This primary system needs an overhaul, IMO.

Carolyn

[niteowl77]

ACU lifetime ratings

Numbers which are meaningless in real-time. Benedict Arnold's lifetime ratings would have been pretty damned good until the point that they caught Andre.

Thanks for the offer, but you guys can keep John's kool-aid. You'll need all you've got for the long walk.

Mr. niteowl77

[Cedric]

I hate to break it to my fellow freepers, but a comprimise candidate is the only chance Republicans have at winning the WH in ‘08. For 6 years Republicans controlled both the White House and Congress and literally screwed the pooch. They were worse than the Democrats in regards to fiscal sanity and growth of government. They did nothing regarding illegal immigration. The Bush administration made some unforgivable errors in its handling of Iraq. Etc etc.

It is hard for me to imagine a paragraph more laden with crap than the one shown above.

[jmyrlefuller]

It’s because some here want to play the race card.

[Molly K.]

Nice idea, but it won’t happen.

In what I’ve seen from his remarks, I do not believe that Huckabee could align himself with Romney.

I have not seen much from him in the way of “Christian magnanimity.”

By contrast, Romney has not leveled (much? any? ...none that I’ve heard of, at least) snide personal remarks towards Huckabee.

[RoadTest]

“Well, my tinfoil was carefully crafted by The Word of God. To discern the big picture is the key, not to discern a single incident or election.”

It’s impossible to understand current events without the Unseen Hand, World Conspiracy Theory. I don’t think it’s just a theory.

[Cedric]

Dude, take your head out of the oven and open a window, quick!

[MortMan]

I cannot support any of the three remaining major R candidates. Period.

Even if Hunter were named VP by the eventual nominee, I can no longer hold my nose and vote against my core principles. My principles are not for sale.

Just my two cents.

[zipper]

Are you pro-life or pro-abortion?

If you’re really a conservative, you should consider that topic to be enough to vote.

Your rationale is viable considering we’re in the primary, but to sit out the general election is to vote for the Dems.

It’s not necessarily who you’re voting for; it’s who you’re voting against. I’m voting against whoever their nominee happens to be.

[seemoAR]

I watched The Andy Griffith Show and its spin-off, Mayberry RFD. I don’t think the Huckster would have lasted very long. I could be wrong since there was a town drunk.

The show was about people who believed in honesty, morality, and integrity. I wish there was a political candidate of either party that had those throw back traits.

[singfreedom]

McCain has serious “cred as the CinC”? How? A man who spent most of his military “career” as a prisoner, in a foreign country, has “serious” credibility as commander of our military forces-—a man whose mental stability is questionable? Your bar is way lower than mine!

“Let’s hope he appoints judges like Scalia (who, jurisprudentially, is extremely capricious)”. McCain thinks Justice Alito is “to conservative” for his tastes. I don’t want a bench filled with unknown quantities. I want good, constitutionally responsible judges, like Alito.

I think my sister is gonna be real happy when Hillary decrees that her son won’t have to go to Iraq.

I’m not “embracing” any them. I’m just picky, I guess, always have been. I’m not accustomed to my fellow Republicans presenting me with a slate of thoroughly distasteful, unqualified, mental midgets, then telling me I MUST vote for them. Surprise, I don’t have to do anything of the kind.

[RSmithOpt]

I seriously doubt it’s a theory when one can see the foundations for destruction being laid by those who think there is an imperative need to control the world’s economy in order to benefit all of mankind.

[Pravious]

“I would like to see Romney and Huckabee both drop out and pledge their delegates to Fred Thompson, J.C. Watts, or Dick Cheney.”

Huckabee has proven that he’s nothing but a political whore. He’d pledge his votes to Hillary if she gave him a position in her administration.

[Cedric]

Heard the same baloney in ‘92.

[kabar]

McCain=Amnesty=Destructioin of this country as we know it. Once it is certain that McCain will be the nominee, expect a tidal wave of illegals who will expect an amnesty from either McCain, Obama, or Hillary.

[NCLaw441]

You posted: I can stomach Romney, barely, but expect to be voting Clinton/Obama just to help send a message that we should never allow a liberal like either McCain or Huck to take our party.
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Reluctantly, I will vote McCain in November. When at war, you use the best weapon you have available. I would prefer a machine gun, but if all I can find is a stick, I will use that, even if I know that I will likely lose. So, I will vote GOP in hopes of keeping a relatively conservative Supreme Court in place, and encouraging gridlock in congress.

I have considered the “that’ll teach ‘em a lesson” approach, and if I thought it might work, I would perhaps adopt it. But I am doubtful that a Clinton or Obama presidency would teach the country that we should be going conservative. Reagan did it, but probably got elected only because Carter presided over a rotten economy, the kidnapping of hostages in Iran and an absolutely horrible national defense/foreign policy (the latter probably didn’t have much effect on the vote, except for the botched rescue attempt in the desert in the summer of 1980.). Many, maybe most, Americans were fooled into believing that Bill Clinton did good things for us while president. Americans will believe anything.

I don’t like what I am about to say, but I will throw it out there. I think we should consider injecting race more heavily into the Democratic primary process, portraying at every turn that Clinton is trying to deny blacks “their” president. There are other techniques that can be used. This would have the effect of either getting Obama the nomination or getting blacks to dislike Hillary enough that they won’t support her in the fall. If Obama gets the nomination, (and again I hate to say it, but it would likely work), we should consider subtly injecting race into the general election. It will be out there anyway. Obama has been and will be using it to his benefit as best he can. White Southern democrats won’t need much encouragement to sit it out or vote against Obama. Say what you will about McCain (and I know you will!), Republicans in the south will turn out to vote against Obama.

I hesitate to post this, and I frankly find it distasteful, but this is politics, and war. You can hate McCain, but putting in a democrat will not teach the country or Republicans, any sort of lesson. The vast majority of our citizens are simply too dumb, or too uncaring, to get such a lesson.