Posted on 01/08/2008 5:12:41 PM PST by jern
per fox news
“Didn’t McCain win the NH primary before? “
Yes, and his margin in 2000 over GWB was bigger. GWB retooled and came back in SC. Romney otoh, really needs to get back in the game by winning Michigan.
If that happens and if Huckabee wins SC it is still a mad free-for-all.
Alas, a mad free-for-all where most candidates are RINOs.
The best viable candidate IMHO is Mitt Romney.
Here is Lamar Smith’s (R-TX) endorsement of Romney:
Mitt Romney is a good man and he has the values, the experience, and the ability to be a great president. Character always counts. Mitt Romney and his wife, Ann, have raised five boys. That alone may qualify him to be President! He knows what family values are all about.
Mitt Romney has earned a reputation for unquestioned integrity. He has always conducted himself with honor and decency.
And he has established a record of success in every area – public, private and non-profit. He has a history of solving problems and coming up with solutions when no one else can.
As Governor of Massachusetts, he reversed the state’s financial decline and balanced the budget every year of his administration. He turned deficits into surpluses and created 57,000 new jobs. Think what a record like that could mean for our country.
Governor Romney championed education reform. He supported merit pay and more math and science courses in high school, and made public colleges more accessible. He recognizes that better educational opportunities enable the next generation to prosper. Imagine what a record like that could mean for America’s students.
Along with education, a top priority of the American people is health care. Governor Romney persuaded a Democratic legislature to enact a law that provides health insurance to every
resident of the state. He accomplished this through the private sector, without a government takeover and without raising taxes. Think what it would mean to each American family to have a workable solution to the looming health care crisis.
Mitt Romney also has an impressive record in the private sector. He founded an investment company that helped launch hundreds of successful businesses. In other words, Mitt Romney
knows how to manage a large business and create jobs, something he has been doing all his life. Those talents will benefit our country too.
In the non-profit arena, Mitt Romney left a successful business career and became President and CEO of the 2002 Olympics when it was in disarray. In his three years at the helm, he erased a deficit, organized thousands of volunteers, and implemented unprecedented security measures after the 9/11 attack. The 2002 Olympics was considered the best ever held in
America.
As a candidate for President, Mitt Romney is the nominee our Party needs in 2008. He can unite the conservative coalition and help the Republican Party across this country from California to Maine. Frankly, if a conservative Republican can be elected in liberal Massachusetts, he can be elected anywhere!
We can make a difference in this election. We can help determine the direction of our country. We can pick the person who should win because of his values, character and experience –
and who will win because of his electability.
Mitt Romney is a good man; he will be a great President. Let’s give him our enthusiastic support.
Intellectually and politically John McCain and Hillary Clinton are opposed sides of the same coin. You get some variation on specific issues like Abortion but over all they share the same philosophical outlook. If anything, McCain has shown himself even more unprincipled then Hillary. Hillary at least will stick to her guns on this or that issue, McCain is total politician who would sell his mother to win a vote.
You run McCain, color this life long Conservative activist out for the season no matter who the Dems run.
We have a way to go yet. Prognosticators can be wrong. It’s happened before.
The only pro Abortion, Pro Gun Grabbing big city life long professional politican in the 4 that you list is the great "hope" of the Conservatives?
How did you come to this remarkable conclusion?
Intellectually and politically John McCain and Hillary Clinton are opposed sides of the same coin. You get some variation on specific issues like Abortion but over all they share the same philosophical outlook. If anything, McCain has shown himself even more unprincipled then Hillary. Hillary at least will stick to her guns on this or that issue, McCain is total politician who would sell his mother to win a vote.
You run McCain, color this life long Conservative activist out for the season no matter who the Dems run
I heard Tom McClintock (CA, should be governor instead of Arnold) say this on the radio last week too (he’s Thompson’s campaign manager in CA or something)—that actually he *is* very energetic, wants the job, etc. Good to know. . .
Actually, like him or not, what he is campaigning on pretty much matches his record, which is almost spotless on social issues and gun rights.
If he lied a little more and sounded more like Reagan on tax issues, would that be good enough for ya? It seemed to have worked when Romney told you sweet little lies.
I am neither an activist nor a clown. Moreover, I am more of a true conservative than you. You are a pathetic ideologist who would prove you point at the expense of your country.
Thank you for the overwrought emotional response. Not only are you a fool, but I submit that you are a tra*tor to party, rational thought and the Country.
I fear we may give up control of the party to compassionate conservatism for another four or eight years. It’s become clear to me that conservatives in this country are as much a fan of federal social programs, illegal immigration, environmentalism, and heavy regulation, as liberals are. Both of our most probable candidates at this point, John McCain and Mike Huckabee, represent those views. Mitt Romney does not, at least not all of them, but a third strike in Michigan is going to take him out.
I’m praying to God Fred Thompson will win big in South Carolina. If not, then all I can do is vote for Ron Paul on Super Special Awesome Tuesday just to stick it to the rest. It’s childish, but then, I view nominating Huckabee or McCain to be childish.
Listen carefully, the sound of a legion of conservatives dancing on his grave and spitting on his shadow, ( rustle, rustle, patooey!).
I do get math...and I’m wondering how anyone can call McCain the “front-runner” when all he’s won is a state with a grand total of 4 electoral votes (less than 1% of the nationwide total of 538).
It works both ways. The Arizona Republican Party censured McCain for his repeated backstabbing of conservative causes. They know him better than most of us.
He won't get it. We will likely be into a brokered convention where McCain will get royally snookered.Suits me just fine. Thomson/Hunter might still be a possibility, but we will see after SC and Super Tuesday.
Then we can talk about what McCain needs, if he lives that long.
McCain is not home free by any means.
I guess you were not listening to Duncan Hunter's vocal admonitions on the surge. He had a boy right in the middle of some of it.
I get a kick out of how one's political preferences often bring on a recalcitrant form of otherwise absent myopia!
Closest? I guess that would be Barrack Obama.
And thats series. Conservatives might vote for him in droves.
Perfect description! LOL
McYankees vote for McNutt............they should have NH and other yankee primaries in the summer so that they can get some fresh air for a couple of days prior to voting..........
>>I just hope they don’t coronate him as the new “Frontrunner” for the GOP nomination. A McCain presidency will be a disaster. He will do nothing about the border...he must be stopped.<<
I don’t think McCain gets named “frontrunner” because he was only 4th in Iowa while Romney has two 2nd place finishes. McCain has to win South Carolina to be front runner since that is where he got stomped last year.
But we are running out of time for Fred to do something.
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