Posted on 12/27/2007 9:04:34 AM PST by shrinkermd
Sen. John McCain, given up for dead a few weeks ago as he ran a cash-starved, disorganized campaign, today is viewed by canny Republican professionals as the best bet to win the party's presidential nomination. What's more, they consider him their most realistic prospect to buck the overall Democratic tide and win the general election. Indeed, if Mike Huckabee holds on to win the Jan. 3 Iowa caucuses, the road forward could be clear for McCain.
Mitt Romney's lavishly financed, meticulously organized campaign has always operated with a thin margin of error based on winning Iowa and the New Hampshire primary five days later. If Romney loses to Huckabee in Iowa, he becomes vulnerable to McCain in New Hampshire. If McCain wins there, he will be favored to sweep through subsequent primaries despite his meager finances and organization.
This scenario does not connote a late-blooming affection for McCain among the party faithful. Indeed, he remains suspect to them on global warming, stem cell research, tax policy and immigration controls, not to mention his original sin of campaign finance reform (with authorship of the McCain-Feingold law). Rather, his nomination would result from him being the last man standing, with all other candidates falling. Rudy Giuliani's baggage is getting too heavy to carry. Fred Thompson never got started. Huckabee's Republicanism is even less orthodox than McCain's and seems unviable beyond Iowa. Romney is burdened with anti-Mormon prejudice and with the accusation that he is "plastic
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No doubt about it. Talks tough about spending problems and can’t even manage his own campaign dollars.
Please, NO McCain!
They wish.
The only ones pushing McCain are the media, which has been having a blitz of late.
Someone isn’t getting the message: McCain is not wanted.
I’ll vote for him when he shows me a $50 an hour lettuce picking job.
This race (on both sides of the aisle) is more wide open than most that I remember. That's precisely why I'm not caring too much about voting for someone who seems "electable". I went looking for the best possible guy.
Duncan Hunter has my vote.
The media and RINOs are playing “anyone but Hunter”.
Not just no, but hell no!
One of only a few I would not vote for.
NO, on to the next subject and thread
***Is This McCain’s Moment?***
mclettuce is an old fool
McCain is afflicted with John Kerry’s disease. It causes the sufferer to believe himself to be entitled to hold the office of president.
Its no more ‘McCain’s moment’ than it was ‘comprehensive immigration reform’s moment’.
How many times do we have to say ‘no thanks’ related to McCain?
I’ll take McCain especially with the crap seemingly hitting the fan over in Pakistan.
No candidate is better on foreign-policy issues than McCain.
Too bad he’s just one more fool who thinks you can fight a war in your front yard while leaving the back door wide open.
He scares me as a senator...no telling where one of his temper tantrums could take us as a country. But I will do whatever it takes to keep Hillary out of the White House, and voting for McCain falls within those parameters.
Hunter is.
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