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McCain Wins South Carolina GOP Primary, AP Projects
AP | Jan. 19, 2008 | Breaking News

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.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Politics/Elections; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: amnesty; backstabber; fred; fredsallthatsleft; gangof14; mcpain; rino; rinos2008; sc2008; sellout
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To: magellan

I will take McCain and his insanity every day of the week over thaT socialist Huckabee.


241 posted on 01/19/2008 7:37:15 PM PST by Gipper08 (a real conservative for Congress... Aaronhankins.com)
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To: nicmarlo

“I didn’t get to vote....looks like the Kennedy Wing of the Republican Party wanted to make sure that the conservatives didn’t get to.”

And there it is......


242 posted on 01/19/2008 7:37:51 PM PST by AuntB (" DON'T LET THE PRESS PICK YOUR CANDIDATE!" Mrs. Duncan Hunter 1/5/08)
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To: Fred Nerks
Oh. I see...in other words, don’t believe a thing you read, right?

No you just have to consider the source. Most people get the news from the Mainstream Media and they don't even try to hide their bias in favor of liberals like McCain and Clinton. An election that's between those two and either way the MSM establishment wins because no matter what their agenda gets pushed forward.

243 posted on 01/19/2008 7:38:26 PM PST by Reaganwuzthebest
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To: Reaganwuzthebest
McCain's not even a Mouseketeer. His glory will be short lived once he gets into states where the conservatives vote like conservatives.

Yeah. South Carolina is a well known liberal bastion, somewhere to the left of Massachusetts. :rolleyes:

Puh-leeze. The handwringing here tonight is nothing short of embarrassing.

It's kind of like you have a homosexual cousin, and at the family reunion, he decides to strip down to a jock strap, jump on a picnic table, and regale the family with his version of some Streisand standard. In other words, over the top.

So McCain isn't Duncan Hunter, or even FRed. But that he's being painted as some kind of liberal Democrat shows just how wacked out some folks here are.

244 posted on 01/19/2008 7:40:33 PM PST by King of Florida (A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.)
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To: dellbabe68
I personally am sick of people’s “take their marbles and go home” shitty attitude.
 
Me too.  Peace.
 
 

245 posted on 01/19/2008 7:40:55 PM PST by littlehouse36 (Why be Europe?)
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To: dellbabe68
If the dems get in, two Supremes will be nominated, thereby securing Roe...

And if McCain wins he'll do everything in his power to get amnesty passed and I can't think of anything that would destroy this country faster. If he succeeds talk about Supreme Court nominees, in 20 years Americans won't even be picking them anymore and the democrats will have a permanent majority.

246 posted on 01/19/2008 7:41:50 PM PST by Reaganwuzthebest
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To: magellan
Who is the great hope in 2012? Maybe Bobby Jindal.

Sounds enticing!

247 posted on 01/19/2008 7:43:41 PM PST by Theophilus (Nothing can make Americans safer than to stop aborting them.)
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To: roses of sharon

RG does hate the ACLU


Exactly why I like Rudy! The enemy of my enemy is my friend.


248 posted on 01/19/2008 7:44:14 PM PST by littlehouse36 (Why be Europe?)
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To: MeanWestTexan

stay home.


249 posted on 01/19/2008 7:44:17 PM PST by DWC
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To: King of Florida
But that he's being painted as some kind of liberal Democrat shows just how wacked out some folks here are.

NY and Massachusetts will vote for McCain like he's the second coming, yup those conservative bastions. Enuf said...

250 posted on 01/19/2008 7:44:21 PM PST by Reaganwuzthebest
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To: meandog

You have made my point. He is the pick of the MSM, not real conservatives. It is a rather bold statement to say that no one agrees with me. If you are referring to no one agreeing with me as the MSM, well I would to prefer to make up my mind for myself. If you want to self agrandize yourself because McLame is you man, knock yourself out....


251 posted on 01/19/2008 7:45:01 PM PST by The Forgotten Man (He works, he votes, generally he prays--but he always pays....)
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To: MNJohnnie; Norman Bates
10 months ago the only the only guy who could beat Hillary in a national poll was Rudy G. Where is he now?

Rudy has only fallen a few points in head to head matchups with Hillary. Obviously, it's a moot point since he will not win the nomination.

Rudy was NOT the only one who could beat Hillary in a natl poll 10 months ago. McCain has been competitive against her or ahead of her for the entire campaign season. Check the data at realclearpolitics if you like.

252 posted on 01/19/2008 7:45:17 PM PST by freespirited (Still a proud member of the Stupid Party. It beats the Evil Party any day of the week.)
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To: Aristotelian

I voted for Fred Thompson in SC. GO FRED!!!


253 posted on 01/19/2008 7:46:26 PM PST by PreciousLiberty
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To: genxer
I understand Rush not wanting to influence the process

Have you listened to Rush for five minutes since 2 Jan?

254 posted on 01/19/2008 7:48:06 PM PST by Theophilus (Nothing can make Americans safer than to stop aborting them.)
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
It is down to this imo, since we cannot have a ideologue, why not hire a man who can do the job for us, hire the man who has the cunning, the ruthlessness and SOB personality. And the man who has accomplishments, and produced results.

Romney is very, very, accomplished and has produced, no doubt. And is not the “sinner” RG was/is. But he also does not have his personality.

From American Thinker the other day:

"But more than any other candidate in the race, Rudy Giuliani is a liberal-slayer. When he rejects liberal orthodoxy, which he does often, he doesn’t just oppose it. He goes to war with it - total, unconditional war.

He spent his political career chewing up liberal orthodoxy and spitting it out - and I think that somehow, in some way, voters in Oklahoma and Kansas get that about him even without knowing the specifics.

His success in turning New York around wasn’t merely a matter of changing policies. He had to sustain those policies when they came under deliberate, systematic and unrelenting assault by the city’s liberal elite.

In case after case, he refused to accept the veto of liberal public opinion. He drove porn shops out of residential neighborhoods, even though his administration had to fight more than 30 lawsuits on the matter. He crusaded against bilingual education, a disastrous policy that had gone unquestioned in this city for decades.

And most important, he stood up for the police department against any and all attacks - which were incessant and incredibly unjust. The race baiter's and their shills at the Not-So-Great Grey Lady talked as though the NYPD was engaging in genocide when the opposite was the case - many thousand of people are alive today who would have died if the NYPD hadn’t taken on its newly aggressive posture under Giuliani."

Good grief, I don't know, it may be to late to stop Huck and McCain.

255 posted on 01/19/2008 7:48:26 PM PST by roses of sharon
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To: Thorin
If Thompson were not in the race in South Carolina, it is likely that Huckabee would have won rather than McCain.

And vice versa.

256 posted on 01/19/2008 7:49:08 PM PST by the808bass
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To: Gipper08; magellan
Here we have Exibit A and Exibit B of what went wrong.

The Drive-by's start pushing Huckabee and McCain as the only two who can win. And people like Gipper08 and Magellan vote for the lesser of the two evils instead of voting for the real conservatives.

So what happens?

Between the two types of voters we get 60% of one of the most conservative states in the Union South Carolina voting for two pathetic socialists.

And they have the nerve to turn around and blame us.

257 posted on 01/19/2008 7:49:25 PM PST by FreeReign
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To: Aristotelian

We’re being McDoled. Conservatives are being McHijacked again. McModerates and McIndependents support McCain. I don’t share their McValues. The McMedia McStinks. Watch the Left McRevel in their victory.


258 posted on 01/19/2008 7:49:45 PM PST by budwiesest (Screw with the plan-- feel the heel of the 'man'.)
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To: AuntB

Well, the Kennedy Wing of the Republican Party had help...the media made sure that the conservative candidate was blackballed.


259 posted on 01/19/2008 7:51:12 PM PST by nicmarlo (I hereby declare my support for Duncan Hunter. 1/10/08; late to the party, but I have arrived!)
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To: AFA-Michigan
And most of Fred’s vote — primarily southern pro-lifers — will go to Huckabee.

Never. Not this Fredhead. If Huckabee's the nominee, I'll dutifully vote for him as he goes down to a 57%-43% defeat. If McStain's the nominee, I'll stay home or write in.

260 posted on 01/19/2008 7:51:26 PM PST by the808bass
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