OFFICIAL SOUTH CAROLINA PRIMARY THREAD

[vikingd00d]

Today is the day.

[Antoninus]

Man you’re taking swipes at everyone now? Relax, just stating my opinion.

OK, the genius thing was a little much. My apologies. :-)

[Shortstop7]

Well said!

[MNJohnnie]

My biggest problem has been his seeming naivete on Islam

The bulk of the people fighting and dying on our side of the war are Muslim Iraqis, Afghanis and Pakistanis. Perhaps it is your perception, not Bush's, that is in error here.

[CharlesWayneCT]

I guess anything is possible. But there would be absolutely no reason for him to change again. His current position matches his church and his own intellectual exploration of the issue.

He wouldn’t need to get pro-abortion votes, nor would there be any other pressure on him in that regard.

[TheLion]

Romney governed Mass much more conservatively than McCain has performed in the senate....just ask Rush Limbaugh.

[vaudine]

I always took it to mean an easy going, funny friend who, like the huckleberries comes and goes (seasonal) and is good while they are there, but not rock solid and dependable-not always there. Just my opinion.

vaudine

[freedom4me]

I’m still for Fred. However; if he stays in the race, he needs to consult with the likes of Haley Barbor or Ed Gillespie for ideas to turn this around. Fred’s been running his campaign from the kitchen table or the back fo the bus, if you will. In this day and age, that’s not going to cut it. You’ve got to be able to organize a grassroots army to go house-to-house, to man phone banks, to blanket neighborhoods with literature. Ed Gillespie and Ken Mehlman (for that matter) understood this and helped propel W to victory in 2000 and 2004. W wouldn’t have won either without the well-organized machine he had.

[MinuteGal]

Hah, now the propagandists have jumped over to a new thread titled "Who Will Fred Thompson Endorse?

You can imagine the fun they're having there repeating what God whispered in their ears....that Fred will endorse the liberal McQueeg.

These schmucks are getting so-oooo boring with their johnny one-note, unsourced, fake assertions.

Leni

[A.Hun]

Excellent post. Bush IS a conservative.

Thanks.

[Antoninus]

How many state wide Democrat winner of Southern states have a 45% or higher negative approval rate like Hillary does at the START of the campaign? How many openly campaign as out and out political Leftists like Hillary does?

And the only candidate who has negatives almost as high as Hillary is---Flip Romney.

Hillary will not campaign as a leftist. She will run to Romney's right--and be able to do so credibly thanks to his utterly wretched political history prior to 2004.

[over3Owithabrain]

No problem - besides calling me a genius is not only rude but utterly dishonest :)

[Bird Jenkins]

Rudy or Romney would still be competitive in the South because of the anti-Hillary vote. Plus, they might actually be able to pick up some blue states like Michigan, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, or even (longshot) California. These are big, important states that we rarely win.

As for the anti-Mitt material on YouTube... Big deal. There's more than enough Hillary dirt to overwhelm Mitt's negatives, and his appealing family man persona is very endearing. I wouldn't count out Mitt or Rudy.

[Antoninus]

What do you mean by “elite”?

As in, an insider and a member of the political class--his father was a governor.

[Invincibly Ignorant]

How the hell did McCain take a southern state with an illegal alien problem?

Because Romney, Thompson and Hucklebee are sharing votes.

[restornu]

That picture you posted...so slick and slimy of you. You learned well from your master, didn’t you?

****

It must be in the water because some of you have a hard time connecting the dots!

SE Mom & LucyJo talked about Fred’s Mother going to the Hospital I posted a picture to them of what Fred’s Mother looked like in a photo taken this morning!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1956232/posts?page=2740#2740

[chickpundit]

That could be, but I’m sticking with him to end.

If he does drop out, I will reconsider. I will likely vote for Fred anyway.

[CharlesWayneCT]

I don’t know who these people are you think you are warning.

There’s maybe a thousand Mitt supporters here, spread across 50 states. We are NOT the reason Mitt is winning, and Fred is losing.

You did your best, trying to get your choice of candidate to be the standard-bearer for the Republican party. Nothing stopped that candidate except the inability to get a significant number of the 100 million republicans to vote for that candidate.

[over3Owithabrain]

I think Romney being Mormon kills him in the general. I’m not saying I agree with it or like it, in fact it is damn prejudicial. But evangelicals consider them messed-up cultists and in the South you might as well be Martian as Mormon. Thereisn’t a GOPer in the field I wouldn’t vote for personally over Hillary, but McCain would be a 3-clothespinner on my m=nose!

[TheLion]

Voters in SC who said their strongest worry was illegal immigration favored Huckabee more than McCain. McCain will be derailed, imo.

[Hoodat]

There's not really anything a President can do about abortion. It all comes down to his positon on judicial activism. The decision to overturn Roe is based on whether the Constitution is the foundation of law. The President can appoint strict constructionists, or he can appoint judicial activists.

Incidently, judicial activists could just as easily have ruled that no state has the right to legalize abortion, just as the Warren court did rule that no state has the right to criminalize it. Both decisions are wrong.

Even someone like Giuliani who is an abortion supporter would nominate judges that would overturn Roe because of his position on judicial activism. The ones who scare the heck out of me are the ones who would put a Souter or a Ginsburg on the Court.