Posted on 01/01/2009 4:14:12 PM PST by wastedpotential
My mother gave it to me for Christmas. I’ll read and report back.
No, he was not an ideological conservative. He is a nationalist, politically pragmatic on all views except for issues of national security (and even then, the torture and Gitmo stances he took were not with the conservatives).
No and no. He embodies all of the worst of Bush (the immigration stances and “compassionate” conservatism which we now all know what that means).
“I would say that either men would not have been so meek to go after Obama, his past associations, and his record (or lack of it).”
I agree, but style would have been different. Romney would have been classic attack dog, Huckabee would have used humor to point it out to some degree and would have expressed deep sadness in other ways.
The one issue that would have been brought out by both would have been culture war issues - abortion, gay rights and so forth. Obama convinced a large % of people that he and McCain differed very little in those areas.
better than obama...i’ll give him that.
He has a good media rapport, I like watching him talk, to me he has that honest look and basically I get good vibes, now there may be more qualified people but he does have qualities that others do not have.
“Is McCain a conservative?”
MSM says so, so it must be true....
Anyone would have been better than what we got.
McCain got the nomination due to independents and Dem crossovers. If we close the primaries we will get a very different candidate next time around.
I would agree. But, still, was not McCain a weak candidate? And were not Huckabee and Romney unable to defeat him?
The fact is: no one Republican candidate was able to unite the conservative vote and prevail over a weak non-conservative whose nominal appeal was to independents.
Conclusion: we need better Republican candidates.
I have great respect for McCain, and although I believe he thoroughly trounced Obama at that Townhall Meeting session at the California church (can’t remember the name), he allowed Obama to beat him (on style) in the debates. The new “Great Communicator” he wasn’t.
If it were possible to defeat Obama in this election (in these circumstances), it wasn’t going to be with McCain. The GOP, and a fair number of independents, was looking for SOMETHING to get excited about. McCain should not have needed Palin to get peoples’ attention.
Nothing against Sarah Palin, but neither Huckabee or Romney would have needed any ‘help’, just to get attention. I give Huckabee the edge on his ability to communicate. It’s unfortunate that they weren’t the nominees (H/R or R/H). Together they would have been a formidable team.
I'm not so sure. But we'll never know, will we?
Because neither was strong enough among the base to out-poll the moderate weenie, McCain.
Sure, the primaries were polluted by independents and Democrats. And McCain benefitted from the support of the MSM.
But a good, strong conservative candidate should be able to overcome this kind of artificiality. Conclusion: neither was a strong conservative candidate.
I admire both Romney and Huckabee -- personally and as party leaders. But they ain't the guys to lead us out of the wilderness...
I think McCain played more hardball during the primaries than during the general. He acted like his hands were tied and he didn’t want to hurt anybody’s feelings.
The GOP is pretty fractured. I doubt the perfect candidate to unite us exists if that was possible.
Ultimately, no one could have overcome the mass hypnotic delusion of Obama. Society is full of too many suckers.
At least that is what the MSM wanted us to believe.
I was hoping that Newt would make a go of it, because I see him as a man of action, but at this point we may be “wandering in a darkened room” for awhile.
Hopefully, we’ll find the light switch soon.
Sure would of course been far better than an Obama.
Probably Castro would be better than an Obama.
We will never find out.
Dunno. I do know however, he was a lousy goveroner.
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