Posted on 01/19/2008 6:18:39 PM PST by Aristotelian
Sen. John McCain won Saturday's South Carolina Republican presidential primary, AP projects.
Fox News and NBC News exit polls ranked the economy as the top concern among South Carolina primary voters, followed by illegal immigration, the war in Iraq, and terrorism.
Columnist and Weekly Standard Editor William Kristol commenting on Saturday's results on the Fox News Channel said that the Republican field is now winnowing down to just three viable candidates: McCain, Mitt Romney, and Rudy Giuliani.
If you don't have a disdain for Thompson it is because reality hasn't set in. Thompson has let conservatives down by running half-assed, lackluster campaign. That is why we are stuck with a RINO as the nominee.
Left is what America thinks it wants. America wants socialism. Everyone thinks that something for free is possible. That no one has to work and earn anything.
Left is what America thinks it wants. America wants socialism. Everyone thinks that something for free is possible. That no one has to work and earn anything.
Saving the vasoline for us hapless voters, I guess. Nice of the bas*&#d.
The truth of the matter is, Fred lost because he waited too long to jump on to the band wagon, and then he waited to long to show the fire in his belly. Fred lost not because of some "Ivy League, argyle sock wearing, clam bake eat’n, suck accent talking, pollo playen, Ted Kennedy jock sniffing, worthless bastards", Fred lost because his game was not up to snuff. Who is to blame for that?
You got what you asked for.
McCain will likely now beat Guliani in Florida, take the lead in delegates, and force a McCain-Romney battle.
Had the shortsighted idiots, like Limbaugh, had the intelligence to realize spending 98% of their time attacking Huckabee helped McCain, they might have thought differently.
If the dumba$$ Romney robots like PowerLineBlog, Hugh Hewitt, and Dennis Prager had the common sense to realize their personal favorite would benefit from a McCain failure in South Carolina, they may have acted differently. They sowed the seeds of their own failure. Whoopie, Romney won Nevada. He will lose Florida. And Super Tuesday, including California. February 6th, McCain will be the defacto nominee.
"Conservatism wins, every time it's tried." Except when it is tried by someone the talk radio types decide they do not like. Social conservatism, a tax reform platform, a Minuteman-endorsed immigration reform platform ... throw it all away. Throw it all to McCain just because you have so little confidence in your pick.
Fred Thompson ("McCain lite") was never in this race, so his delusional supporters have no standing.
Romney's supporters sowed the seeds of their own destruction.
In November, when McCain gets plowed under by Clinton or Obama, then what?
McCain is no Goldwater. 2008 is no 1964. This is not going to be an election where a platform is set and we wait for 16 years for the rest of America to catch up.
Who is the great hope in 2012? Maybe Bobby Jindal.
2008 is over. And the politically ignorant and naive Rush, HH, and Prager are as much to blame as any Republican.
We've been Doled. Again.
It helps to remember that the Clinton-Bush coziness goes back to the days of Iran-Contra, when Papa Bush was supervising covert arms shipments to Latin America out of Arkansas (with drugs making the return trip) and Governor Clinton was busy looking the other way. Further, as was clear during abortive Republican investigations into various Clinton scandals, in the culture of impunity of Washington, politics stops at corruption's edge. Almost all major corruption is either bipartisan or common enough that one side can effectively blackmail the other.
No you're not missing something.
Mitt is the front runner.
As in McCain-Feingold and McCain-Kennedy, and Gang of 14, and amnesty for illegals?
I think I'd prefer him as a follower, thank you.
No way Huckabee beats Hillary or Obama.
So you are the McCain supporter here.
Let me ask you a question...
If the mushy clueless middle of the road voter is looking for “change”, why would they vote for McCain? If they want liberalism and “change” they can vote for Hillary or Obama.
How will McCain win even 3 states without Conservative support?
McCain's not even a Mouseketeer. His glory will be short lived once he gets into states where the conservatives vote like conservatives.
You left out Coulter.
I will not vote for him and frankly, I don’t give a damn what the rest of you ‘Go ahead and give your vote to the dems’ people think. You all need to get a freaking spine.
Since the Dems will have both houses of Congress and the WH, it won't matter if Republicans oppose Hillary. Maybe you don't care if opposition actually succeeds. And she'll get at least one and probably more Supreme Court appointments. Especially if she wins a second term, which some here seem prepared to concede.
Really tough for the party in the WH to win 3 elections running. Who has a better chance beating a Democrat Senator? Another Senator or someone NOT tied to the DC political machine?
Since 1976.
Carter ran as the populist outsider against DC. Carter Won.
1980. Reagan ran as an outsider going to DC to clean up the mess. Reagan won
1984. Old Machine politician and former Senator Mondale ran by the Democrats against Reagan. Reagan won.
1988. VP running on the Reagan legacy against a DC outsider barely won.
1992 DC outsider ran against sitting President. Outsider Clinton won.
1996 Old career Senator named Dole with a stellar war record ran against Sitting President. President Clinton won.
2000 DC outsider ran against sitting President's VP, outsider Bush won by a few hundred votes.
2004 Old career Senator named Kerry with a supposed stellar war record ran against sitting President. President won.
2008. The GOP Establishment plans to run an old tired worn out career Senator with a war record against the former 1st Lady or a 1 term Senator.
Based on that historic record just WHY should I hope McCain has any chance at all against Clinton Inc?
Are you kidding? Thune has been utterly disappointing.
Thune won his Senate seat by going after the fact that Tom Dasshole was an obstructionist who held the Senate hostage and backstabbed the President if he didn't get his pork... then after Thune won, he turned obstructionist, held the Senate hostage on several occasions, and backstabbed the President to make demands for his pork.
Thune may have a conservative voting record, but he'll no longer get my support for future campaigns. He has become the thing he campaigned against.
Alot of us from outside SD worked hard to elect Thune to the Senate, and we didn't do it to get Dasshole lite. Thune told SD that they could replace their Senator and do better. Time for Thune to find out SD can replace him and "do better" too.
It's a heavily Republican state. Now that we don't have a RAT incumbant to take out, Thune is easily expendable. If he doesn't shape up we'll have to find a Republican who knows that stopping "obstructionism" is more than just a campaign slogan.
Now whatever could you possibly MENA by that one? ;-)
Both McCain and Huckabee are amnesty loving liberals.
Anybody who voted for these two candidates are responsible for the mess that we are in.
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