McCain is less liberal government spending wise, and when seeing an opening, has taken a vote costing stand. Something Mitt has never done. In this elections, McCain has come out, in Indiana no less, against ethanol. Something Mitt would never have the spine to do.
McCain bested Obama, and has won, what 8 elections to Mitts one.
Mitt left the Mass GOP in ruins. He used, bought and abused it. I don't know if he ever got the thanks he should of from Mass Democrats. There is something creepy, and un democratic with the stickiness of Romney's name in this election. The weird support from NR, the effete elite of the GOP, Mitt's beating in the nomination by a broke, old, stumble McCain. The constant quasi Democrat tactic of any one against Mitt is an snake handling evangelical and or Mormon bigot. I know I used to 'get' Mitt. But that was until he reviled himself as Governor as the go along to get along to become President ticket puncher. In a way, Mitt reminds me of Nixon. There's a wiff of energetic, intelligent, dogged desperation.
One thing Slick Willard’s candidacy revealed is that it ended up outing a lot of people we thought were Conservatives that proved to be anything but. Those that put looks, lies and bucks ahead of a substantive Conservative record. People that a year or two ago I thought were giants (Coulter, Tancredo) turned out to be nothing but little weasels.
And Leisler, I’d disagree with the “fairly decent” description. I contend he is not a nice man in the least, and in his quest for power in attempting to avenge his father, he sold his soul. When I look at him, he not only seems to lack substance, he appears soulless. Very unattractive indeed. (Funny thing is, if he had used a fraction of the ruthlessness in whoring after the Presidency and channelled it into doing something positive as Governor, he might not have left the MA GOP dead and the state in total shambles).
That’s right, I forgot ... people can never change. So scre* em!
Nice try, but Romney didn’t leave Mass in ruins. His successor has screwed things up now. The libs tried to blame this on Romney.
I’m not excited about Mormanism either, but you need to note that Orrin Hatch is a Mormon and a fine conservative senator.
Enough about Mormanism and falsehoods about his past. Remember Reagan was Pro-choice before Pro-life. Romney was too. That doesn’t make him unfit for command or ideologically adrift.
Mitt is no Nixon. Rather, he’s the next Reagan. You just don’t know it yet...
The Mass GOP was dead and buried long before Romney got there. Saying he killed it is like saying Pataki did the same here in NY. And the major reason why McCain was able to win the nomination was because the lack of a clear front runner allowed Time Magazine and CNN and MSNBC and Newsweek and CBS and NBC to push him over the top with casual voters. I will happily vote for McCain in November, but as long as there was any viable alternative besides Huckabee, there wasn't a single poster on FR with anything but hatred for McCain.
And I disagree that the Republicans can keep right on winning. Obama is a very flawed candidate, but he is by far the best they could come up with in the past generation. The are going to have a hard time topping him. The almost nominated John Edwards this time. I'm guessing that if he loses Hillary Clinton will be the nominee, and she's definitely beatable.