Posted on 02/06/2008 7:39:57 PM PST by Jean S
I’ll write in Thompson & Hunter.
Clowns to left of me, jokers to the right,
Here I am, stuck in the middle with you.
I’m writing in Hunter.
Neither.
McCain is marginally less unacceptable.
Nope. He could have met the terms of the order by cutting spending elsewhere. If he had been a conservative rather than a liberal, he would have done so.
The question is irrelevant. Huckabee has no chance at this point. There is simply no way for him to win, even if he gets all the remaining delegates. The nominee is McCain.
I'm gonna write in Thompson ;o)
I’d rather send the message “No” to McCain.
I realize the parameters of this thought experiment are that Romney is out, but he’s not. And a vote for Huck is a vote for McCain, thus in the real world, I’d vote Romney.
thanks very much for your replies..
I just read that Romney is out.
So..
I wouldn’t vote. I’m really finding it easy to despise Huckabee for his actions and support of McCain in this election.
I’m thoroughly disgusted with both of them.
thanks again for your posts..
Bad, bad choices even when we had 7-8.
But, if it were Huck/McPain, I think (not sure) I might pull for Huckabee.
I don’t much like either, but I KNOW I despise McCain and don’t trust him.
Ever since I 1st heard of this guy way back in ‘95 who declared we didn’t need submarines any more (yes, I worked designing subs), and knew it was mainly because he wanted money to go to B1/B2 bombers which had plants making parts in AZ, I haven’t much liked him.
And then after that, most of what has come up has been bad.
I don’t like his “likeable” opportunism on TV spots, which contrasts with his back-stabbing ways.
I have too much “experience” with McCain and shenanigans to really ever want to pull for him.
So, next Tues, if it’s not just McCain by then, I might just pull for Huckabee. Or “none”.
Is McCain the perfect candidate? No, but is he the candidate with the best opportunity to keep Roddy or Barry out of the White House? YES
It is. Well except for Ron Paul. But effectively it's just the Huckster, who's been a stalking horse for McStain, and McStain himself.
I am so PO'd that I will not even get to vote for any of my first three choices. In order, Hunter, Thompson and Romney. And Romney was quite a bit behind the other two.
What the heck kind of a way to select the commander in chief, chief executive and nominal leader of the free world is this, when most of the electorate doesn't even get a chance to vote for anyone else but the anointed one? Aren't those the sorts of elections they had in the old Soviet Union.
McCain can except to begin to be torn to shreds the formerly fawning media about this time next month. Maybe sooner.
Huckabee.
Wow. If you weather all the attacks and simply stand in the same place long enough, the whole world may eventually come to your door.
Will wonders never cease? Mike Huckabee the leading candidate in a Free Republic poll...
Welcome aboard.
And here are the dividing points on which at least some FReepers can plant their flag and take comfort.
McCain is one of only seven GOP senators who voted against constitutionally protecting marriage from activist judges. Huckabee supports the Marriage Protection Amendment.
McCain favors federal funding of medical experimentation on prenatal children in their embryonic stage. Huckabee opposes it.
McCain was endorsed Wednesday by Republicans for Choice. Huckabee has been endorsed by over a dozen state Right to Life organizations, and NRTL PAC admits that he has the strongest pro-life record of any candidate.
McCain authored the McCain-Feingold-Thompson-Bush Act, which tramples on First Amendment free speech rights. Huckabee opposes it.
See Roegone’org’s new McCain TV spot at:
http://www.roegone.org/Site/Tv%20ADS%20.html
Unless he gets the Romney delegates. But even then it would be iffy. Bet he doesn't get the VP nod either.
He is now.. unless he's planning on pulling a Perot, and jump back in. I think he decided he had too little chance of winning to keep throwing his own money down a hole.
As with most things, the real problem is who decides to run. Apparently, we simply didn’t have any serious conservatives want to run (much less make a concerted effort when doing so). And we can’t make them.
and at least you know what you voted for.......up front!
"...Here’s another small difference between Reagan and Mr. Romney: Reagan was a serious bedrock conservative ideologue, going back to his electrifying support for Barry Goldwater 12 years earlier. Mr. Romney, on the other hand, had said he was an independent during the Reagan years, and not so long ago he was on the record supporting abortion rights and gay rights. It’s hard to be the standard-bearer for a conservative uprising if your own conservatism seems rooted in necessity.
"...The way Mr. Romney justified his decision yesterday says a lot about why he wasn’t successful in the first place. Rather than just own up to the situation — “We just didn’t win the states we needed to win,” or something like that — Mr. Romney, ever the business consultant, had to try to customize his message for the client. My colleague David Brooks once wrote that Mr. Romney was running the perfect campaign for 1980, and in this way I think he was right: in an era where voters send every sign that they are craving a sense of authenticity and conviction in their leaders, Mr. Romney always gave the sense that he was telling you what you wanted to hear, or at least what he thought you might believe. He treated his campaign, from the start, less as an expression of self than as a reflection of what his methodical research had determined the market to be.
ditto
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