Posted on 02/09/2008 11:44:24 AM PST by Jim Robinson
I posted earlier that I thought we should coalesce behind Huckabee as he was the only candidate left that had won states other than McCain. However, your strategy might work just as well. Which ever will cause McCain to come in second or lower would work for me.
If Ron Paul and John McCain are the only two left on the ballot in Idaho come May I’ll vote Paul. I was actually just answering the question as to why people weren’t voting for him.
It’s no use trying to talk sanity into them, Jim. They don’t make freepers like they used to. This forum has lost it’s collective mind and gotten aboard the Rudy McRomney express since Fred dropped out.
The goal on FR is no longer to stop Rudy McRomney. (It never was to stop Rudy McRomney in the first place, UNLESS their hand picked candidate could do it) It’s to spit on Mike Huckabee, Duncan Hunter, James Dobson, and anyone else who didn’t “fall in line” behind the Rudy McRomney express after Fred dropped out. Fred Thompson HIMSELF just endorsed Juan McCain to try and sew up the nomination for him before the remaining 20+ states have their say. Do they care? Nope.
Free Republic Opinion Poll: (2/7) Which of the remaining GOP hopefuls do you support?
Composite Opinion
Rudy McRomney 863 votes
Ron “Surrender Monkey” Paul 787 votes
The Freeper Governor (Mike Huckabee) 467 votes
FR’s hero during the 2000 primaries (Alan Keyes) 374 votes
Member Opinion
Rudy McRomney 425 votes
Ron “Surrender Monkey” Paul 325 votes
The Freeper Governor (Mike Huckabee) 239 votes
FR’s hero during the 2000 primaries (Alan Keyes) 191 votes
Super Tuesday! - I voted for:
Composite Opinion
Rudy McRomney 53.8% 1,303 votes
Nobody 17.3% 419 votes
The Surrender Monkey, 10.0% 241 votes
Former candidate, Fred Thompson 9.2% 223 votes
The Freeper Governor 4.0% 97 votes
The Freeper Congressman 2.7% 65 votes
Other 2.0% 48 votes
FR’s hero during the 2000 primaries 1.1% 26 votes
Member Opinion
Rudy McRomney 50.7% 579 votes
Nobody 22.7% 279 votes
Former candidate Fred Thompson 10.7% 131 votes
The Surrender Monkey 6.0% 74 votes
The Freeper Governor 4.1% 50 votes
The Freeper Congressman 3.1% 38 votes
Other 1.6% 20 votes
FR’s hero during the 2000 primaries 1.1% 13 votes
Which GOP presidential hopeful do you want to see win the most delegates on Super Tuesday?
Composite Opinion
Rudy McRomney 77.7% 3,616 votes
The Surrender Monkey 14.9% 692 votes
The Freeper Governor 7.4% 342 votes
Member Opinion
Rudy McRomney 80% 1,675 votes
The Surrender Monkey 12.2% 274 votes
The Freeper Governor 7.7% 173 votes
Free Republic Opinion Poll: (1/27) If you can’t have Rudy McRomney and instead you end up with The Freeper Governor vs. the EVIL Hilderbeast herself in the general election, how do you vote?
Composite Opinion
Vote Huck. 47.9% 1,515 votes
Screw Huck, let Hilderbeast win 46.4% 1466 votes
Undecided 5.7% 179
Member Opinion
Vote Huck. 49.1% 810
Screw Huck, let Hilderbeast win 43.5% 719 votes
Undecided 7.3% 121
Composite Opinion
Rudy McRomney 61.6% 2,438 votes
No one on the list 19.3% 764 votes
Staying home 7.1% 281 votes
The Freeper Governor 4.6% 181 votes
Member Opinion
Rudy McRomney 60.6% 1,271 votes
No one on the list 20.4% 428 votes
Staying home 6.6% 139 votes
The Freeper Governor 4.2% 88 votes
At least the faithful out in Kansas know which end is up, today.
Hope he wins NC in May. He could be a great man if he ever got the chance.
State by state delegate by delegate. Anyone but McCain.
Great news! With the right 10 states the party wins. Our value, though by no means out of danger, live to fight on in the daylight of the convention.
There are only two choices in my scenario, mcpain and Huck. Of course with kukukucinich, I might be able to hop on a space ship and vacation in another dimension.
It is mind boggling that a significant number of Freepers and conservatives anointed a flip-flopping Massachusetts liberal as the conservative standard bearer.
bttt
That video clip is an excellent example of what McCain does when cornered. The lady (Dolores Alfono) was the Chair for the National Alliance of Families, asking McCain (on live tv - C-SPAN) why we can’t disclose what happened to those POW’s and MIA’s in Vietnam. The families have been begging for years, for some sort of closure.
He got more and more angry with her (he obviously didn’t want to tell her what he knew), and he got up, and stormed off the Senate floor! Total display of bad temper. One HAS to wonder what he is hiding!
A more perfect analogy I am indeed hard-pressed to find. Well said. And like you, the only flag of surrender I recognize is that which my enemy will ultimately be compelled to wave.
Thanks again!
It’s too late.
I don't think the quitters and losers should be given any votes at all. Any anti-McCain votes should go to the only candidate with the cojones to take on the MSM's selection of McCain and give the people a choice. Huckabee's speech to CPAC should be a wake up call and alert people to the fact that a true conservative is still out there trying to earn our votes and give a choice to the people. He should be rewarded for his persverance and his hard work and the fact that he will be an important component in delivering the social conservative vote to the eventual nominee. We should vote for the man still in the race that is best able to articulate conservative prnciples. We should be helping him to fill his pockets with those smooth stones of his.
So is Bush, but everyone plugged their noses and voted for him because we're in the middle of a war and Kerry was a totally unacceptable alternative. I just don't understand this McCain Derangement Syndrome, as if McCain could possibly be any more of a disaster than Bush has been. Bush wasn't the last straw, but McCain is? Kerry wasn't acceptable, but Hillary *is*? Is that what you're saying? Or did you not vote for Bush?
Well, see, not everyone is as hell-bent on ensuring a never-ending, readily available stream of cheap roofers, pool boys and law maintenance men as is the typical Juan McCain supporter. So, that's one fairly major stumbling block, right there.
“I’m no election math wizard ... None of the others can possibly win ...”
Of course I’ll have to quibble with that:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1967481/posts
But it’s great to see you still fighting.
:-)
Spare me. Bush is as pro-amnesty as McCain is. Did you vote for Bush in 2004?
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