Posted on 02/10/2008 5:14:02 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, February 10th, 2008
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): President George W. Bush.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Former Gov. Mike Huckabee, R-Ark.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Former Gov. Mike Huckabee, R-Ark.; Joe Trippi, former John Edwards campaign adviser; Karl Rove, former deputy chief of staff to President Bush.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Gov. Tim Kaine, D-Va.; former Sen. Bob Kerrey, D-Neb.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio; former Secretary of State Colin Powell.
You may be correct on that snugs, but the ability of candidates - from either party - to bus voters into different states is wrong. I'd also like to see the primary day be six weeks before the general election, not ten months. I am already in the BS overload and burnout mode.
I think this Huckabee thing is fascinating.
Here’s the pubbie situation as I surmise....Huck can’t get the 1100+ delegates needed to insure the nomination. He CAN, however, keep McCain, at 700+ confirmed NOW, from reaching that same threshhold.
Thus the pub convention comes up and neither candidate has the 1100+. In fact, I heard Huck himself say that’s his plan, the hope being that with neither candidate having that benchmark, the convention would then be “brokered”.
I take BROKERED to mean back rooms, ciggie smoke, deals, laughs at the expense of the pathetic conservatives who just want a decent candidate. That would be us.
So the pub convention too will be fascinating.
Political junkees, be forewarned.
This year’s election, as it now seems, is all about the politica elite cause they don’t get anymore political elite than the Clintons and John McCain.
Who will win?
Thanks
That may or may not be the case.
Yes, a McCain candidacy does endanger “coattails.” However, there seems to be a movement growing (and I’ve been espousing it as well as Rush Limbaugh) that just because the conservatives don’t like the nominee doesn’t mean that they won’t go out and vote in the House and Senate races. It seems like there’s an interest to take back Congress, like 1994 for the GOP and 2006 for the Democrats. That mindset can be surprisingly successful.
We could see coattails without the coat.
It will probably be Tom Ridge.
The question was not on the quality of his campaign, it was the timing of his endorsement.
“It will probably be Tom Ridge.”
You’re joking, right?
We may have lost in our choices for the top to the ticket. Now we must do what we can to get congress critters elected. They are the only ones who might stop what appears to be the coming train wreck.
Alton Brown, man. Alton Brown said Yukon Gold.
He also said you gotta add hardboiled eggs.
And so I shall.
;)
I tend to buy these for both boiling served hot and for potato salad as with dad sometimes I have to keep the meal waiting for a while if he is not ready or not feeling well and they survive either leaving in hot water or turning off and reheating later.
Better than the RINO behind the elephant cartoon!
“We may have lost in our choices for the top to the ticket. Now we must do what we can to get congress critters elected. They are the only ones who might stop what appears to be the coming train wreck.”
You are exactly correct.
Well, we could see a resurgence with Huckabee here just to stop McCain, and I think we saw a little bit of that yesterday.
A brokered convention may not be a McCain shoo-in. Let’s remember, McCain has ticked off just about every member of the GOP since he lost the nomination in 2000. There was even a consideration to join the Democrats— not once, but twice— although he refused.
There will be people that remember those instances, which makes the prospect of a dark horse candidate all the more likely.
I would have thought McCain needs a younger vibrant person as VP to counter the age problem with the ticket.
Don’t add mustard!! Changes it completely!
I’ve been listening to Rush on this matter.
Maybe I’m wrong but I don’t think conservatives are going to SIT out the election. There seems to be a vague, unformed concensus that conservatives will either NOT vote for either McCain or the Dem nominee, or they will write in a vote.
The local races, I don’t see conservatives sitting this out...the reps/senators...and here in Delaware a very important Governor race this year.
Actually, there are: Timmy, George, and Bob.
That would make your campaign similar length to ours which is normally 4 - 6 weeks and people complain that is too long.
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