Very well reasoned post.
Posted on 02/07/2008 9:01:46 AM PST by Greg F
We are beginning to see signs that Mitt Romney might be preparing to pull out of the Republican race.
Everyone is looking for tea leaves from the campaign, and we'll know more about the governor's state of mind when we hear from him at CPAC today. But in the last 24 hours, I have noticed a dramatic drop-off in the number of emails I have received from Team Romney. This is no small thing. Every reporter will tell you they receive reams of emails from the Romney campaign. But the last one I got was at 1:47 p.m. yesterday, advising me of Romney's campaign schedule in Maryland. Before that, I last received on at 8:37 a.m., advising me of Romney's CPAC speech.
Normally in that time period, I would have received lots of emails telling me, among other things, that John McCain's Straight Talk Express had taken a detour. For example, I would have expected to receive one about McCain's "calm down" remark. But nothing from the Romney camp. I wondered whether the campaign is dialing back its aggressiveness in preparation for a Romney withdrawal. . . .
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Have you noticed what we sound like?
He loves Reagan.
Maybe he will listen to conservatives if they acted more like Reagan and John Roberts instead of Ann Coulter and Robert Bork. It is these “new” conservatives that are alienating most Americans.
Nearly exactly what I thought..........
Looks like its Plan C
Plan A) Vote for Fred Thompson in Feb 9th Caucus
Plan B) Vote for Mitt Romney in Feb 9th Caucus
Plan C) Go Skiing
Mike said he would not quit because the “lead horse may break a leg” during an interview 6th it may be Mike has insight we shall see
We have been for quite a while.
We’re very sorry, if Karl Rove, is right on Mitt.
Dirty politics by the McCain camp - through changing their vote for the Huckster to deny Mitt a win when the McCain was tanking ... that’s dirty. It goes to show that these non conservatives are as DIRTY as Demoncrats. It didn’t use to be that way ... .
We’ll be sitting home if Mitt with drawls.
We have been for quite a while.
We’re very sorry, if Karl Rove, is right on Mitt.
Dirty politics by the McCain camp - through changing their vote for the Huckster to deny Mitt a win when the McCain was tanking ... that’s dirty. It goes to show that these non conservatives are as DIRTY as Demoncrats. It didn’t use to be that way ... .
We’ll be sitting home if Mitt with drawls.
OK, so now we are left with the Rockefeller Foundation Huckabee or the Soros Puppet McCain.
We now have two men searching for riches and power. One (McCain) had to marry it and the other it still sucking off the men behind the curtain. The self made gentleman who made his own money has just left stage. Be careful what you wish for.
Agreed. There's plenty not to like about McCain, but much of the current anti-McCain hyperbole is based on personal pique and copycat piling on, not serious and sober reflection.
So we've arrived at the rhetorical point on FR where McCain is a nasty socialist traitor and Fred Thompson, McCain's soulmate in the Senate and co-sponsor of the campaign censorship bill, belongs on Mount Rushmore.
I’m a Huckabee supporter, and I think that this is great news. The majority of the anti-McCain GOP primary voters will vote for Huckabee, and Huckabee has a better chance of winning the nomination.
I was planning to vote for McCain in the general if he won the nomination. After what he pulled in WVa, however, I'll be voting third party or not at all.
He sounds like the Weapons officer on my ship - but I’ll still vote for him, McCain that is ...
Shhhhhhhh ... the kid is napping.
in case you haven’t noticed, we true Conservatives have been inored for years.. This is merely the final impetus to leave the RINO’s and form our own party.
Very well reasoned post.
Does anyone think he might drop the R and run as an I ?
I hope he does not cut a deal with anyone...he has been slimed..while none are perfect he has been the most dignified throughout.
It's going to take a pair of vise grip pliers to hold my nose tight enough to keep out the stench....I'm not sure that'd be enough.
Maybe if we did a labotomy to kill our sense of smell we could make ourselves vote for McCain. I'd probably have to start sucking c**ks for a living, just to get my self respect back.
So, you believe you are unable to get a canidate past the primary process in the Republican party, but you will be effective as an independent party?
I suggest you read the last sentence of my previous post one more time, because thinking like yours will make it change from an observation to prophetic.
The self described “very conservative” wing is eating its own at this point, and if it isn’t careful will wind up relegated to irrellevance.
What about all the people that hate Huckabee?
Phil ... I've been a Huckabee supporter, too, since Fred dropped out ... but Huckabee (like Mitt) has no realistic shot at the nomination now. There just aren't enough delegates left on the table.
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